Publisher's Synopsis
"Dan Albergotti's Candy is a book steeped in sound and silence. Sound in the form of song, of chaotic cacophony, and of the drone (sometimes natural, sometimes manufactured) that forms the ambient soundtrack of history and our seemingly apocalyptic present. And silence in the sense both of the void's natural silence and of the failure to speak-of people being either dumbstruck or in denial, not speaking because they cannot or will not. In the book's first poem, the "savanna's ambient song is interrupted // by a sharp crack that sounds like a gunshot, / the zebra's kick finding the lion's jaw." And in the poems that follow, we hear "a sibilant song that swims in the soil," the hiss of "a ventilator's rasp," "the interrogating song of a lark," "white noise coher[ing] into whispered names," a mule's bray sounding "like a peal of trumpet and kettledrum," and the chirps of cell phones mimicking birdsong--all of this set in relief against the
