Wunderkammer by Helen Ivory

Praise for Wunderkammer   “The moon chomped on by a wolf  ‘that chases the sun,’ a mouse wielding an ax, a washing machine set on erasing objects from the world … This is the magical entree to the new and selected poems of Helen Ivory, whose voice reminds me of the unsmiling mask of Buster Keaton—how, with drollness and play, she  provides a map of the everyday bizarre and often whimsical possibilities of life lived through a highly playful, rather dark, and deeply imaginative vision. Is there a little Stevie Smith at play here? A little Brothers Grimm? Those and that of a newsreader who has gone off-script and is showing us wherever the expected has yielded to the uncanny and unusual? These poems are a delight for the assurance she provides that everyday wonders, surprises, and quotidian horrors are in our reach and accessible through her word ministry. Brave and imaginative! Read this book.”—Maxine Chernoff“Helen Ivory’s poems take place in the world of fables, transformations and po