Rapunzel's Parrot

"If you dare open Jerry Bradley's Rapunzel's Parrot (his 6th book of poems) you will read your eyes out, a fate better than that which befalls the step-sisters of Cinderella and other characters Bradley has recruited from the collections of the Brothers Grimm. In Bradley's reinvention of Mèarchen, he has outdone himself as a poet. His steady voice reminds us just how insignificant we are and that if a transvestite wolf approaches us that is the least of our worries, for Bradley forces us to approach poetry in a way that requires more thought than most of that produced by the poets currently staging a sit-in on Parnassus"--