Nude Formalities

Inish’s poetry uses an anti-representational system of language. Note in Inish’s work the tendency for patterns to “move across poems.” Find brief images, oddly juxtaposed and undermining each other; phrases and sentences torn up by improperly placed periods; slash marks, jump cuts, stray bits of words; moments thick with meanings that never quite complete themselves; social ironies, a sly and biting humor.… It’s the movement that matters, the swoops, twists, barriers, jolts.