Dance Craze: Poems by Antonia Clark

Dance Craze is a diverse collection of poems, full of mischief and whimsy and ranging from irreverent to fanciful to quirky. I was a girl with a fondness for fiction, the narrator tells us, eager and willing to suspend disbelief. And later, I was verbal and fertile. I skipped and skirted and circled. Put my faith in cut and run. These poems tell of romantic foibles and felicities, as well as a dead ex-husband who shows up at the door wanting to party. The narrator, who is capable of staggering languor, says, I’m a little beyond the bend of the river, a little up the road from put together. But she’s also able to sing an ode to missteps and faux pas, and finally, to listen to her heart like a golden oldie.