10 Mississippi

Playful but ominous, 10 Mississippi reads like a game of hide-and-seek set in Americas rising floodwaters of text and technology. Fluid, lively, and referential, 10 Mississippi samples language from many cultural tributaries, performing sequels of celebrated twentieth-century poems, darkly riffing on advertising slogans, tongue twisters, formulaic news reports, and everyones favorite twenty-six-letter sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Like the proverbial river that is never the same twice, Healeys poems channel the constant transformation of the modern world and embrace the human drama in all its absurd variety.