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Review: Plesyre Barge: Jon Cone
The chapbook occupies a curious place in our literature. Skimming a respected poetry website reveals that over a hundred presses annually publish chapbooks, yet it is a format that suffers from several unforgiving stigmas, chief among these being that it is an abbreviated offering of verse (40 pages at most) that merely serves as a stepping stone to that literary holy grail, a ‘real’ first book. (Never mind the fact that chapbooks are now wildly popular with established poets, notes the reviewer who just received several desk copies via UPS.) The problem with such narrow logic, to tinker with an old cliché, is that it judges a book by the closeness of its covers rather than its contents. Such were the waves that swayed my mind’s dinghy as I read and re-read Jon Cone’s superb new chapbook The Plesyre Barge, a slender but absorbing collection that packs a remarkable degree of zaniness, range, and punch in 25 pages.
