"Philip O'Connor is a surrealist poet ... His poetry is a devastating attack on generally accepted notions which he sees as engendering the more conventional ways of writing poetry. Using rhyme entirely as a joke, traditional metrics only to offset the real rhythms of his inner feelings, O'Connor diabolically undermines the 'gentility principle' by humour alone. Like a true surrealist, his attack is total: he writes about politics, ethics, aesthetics, with no lines drawn between what 'pertains to poetry' and what does not ... "--From book jacket.