The poems in Some Common Weakness Illustrated are like a series of unexpected meditations on overlooked parts of life.Carson Cistulli's poems shed light on his peculiar condition of feeling that he is trapped inside of a poem while being addicted to sports--basketball and baseball in particular. In these poems language seems to replace meaning, while feeding our collective appetite for truth touched by absurdity.Yale Series Poetry Award Winner, Loren Goodman writes: Carson Cistulli's book of poems is like the rabbit that pulls the magician into his hat. It is like an enormous handkerchief spewing out colorful severed hands. It is like the woman who uses her naked body to cut saws in half.
What happens when a gang of rogue pixies takes the troublemaking just a little too far? They get noticed by the U.S. Army and playtime is over. Now that they’ve been caught, they can either sign their lives away to enter an experimental new program for magical Army soldiers or accept a one-way ticket back to Oriceran. Can Z and her cousins learn to rein in the chaos as new magi...
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