Word: flattest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BOOK'S last poem, "Searching for the Queen of Angels," soars the highest but at times falls the flattest. Mudd slips backwards from a love scene into memory, calling the past a "renewal" and detailing the history of the city. The poem start with a cleverly written but inherently dull account of everything from the founding of a city called La Ciudad de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles to a group of kindergarten students (Mudd remembers) planting black walnuts. The past is a history assignment that needs to be done before government can studied, Mudd says...