The Persimmon is an Event by Mike Corrao Alex McKeown the adorable other is not

the adorable other is not just an imagined future child

for which he reached back to the expressionist era and also to the post-war Viennese avant-garde

less the lyric than the epylion

polemicists and disbelieving masses

The poems celebrate illicit desire and the male body’s vulnerability

The Persimmon is an Event by Mike Corrao Alex McKeown the adorable other is notIn The Persimmon is an Event Mike Corrao explores the yet to be created field of Ovidian Dynamics (a study of the body's metamorphic potentials) as the reader subject undergoes a series of unwieldy changes. These aphoristic poems are malleable segments, unfolding, like the Persimmon, from seed to tree. ABOUT Mike Corrao: Mike Corrao is the author of numerous works including Gut Text (11: 11 Press), Under Reef (Onomatopee), and Smut Maker (Inside the