This is more than just a simple work of fascinating verse. It really is. The title poem alone goes on for some sixty-seven pages, written in classic heroic format that is quite reminiscent of  The Iliad and the Odyssey -- and filled with all of the wonderfully self-indulgent erotic adventure that any god-like human author could hope to cram into such a work. It is fun, bouncy, captivating, and it just screams to be read over and over -- and possibly once more. Now add to this a thirty-page luscious bit of prose erotica titled "Portrait of a Statue as a (Very) Young Man." And add to that a lusciously-contrived verse play titled "Upon Shakespeare's Couch." And add to that a final poem titled "An Anti-Elegy for Auden." And that's the lot of it!
     Mr. Tarvin, a retired professor of English literature, certainly knows his stuff, and by the time you're done reading this work, you know it, too. In fact, you almost feel as though you have one of  his public hairs stuck between your teeth, and you're just not sure whether to pull it out, or to floss. And so it blows! O Captain, my Captain.
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