Kissing Other People or the House of Fame Monsters which boy the barmaid will

which boy the barmaid will kiss

In this biography

and into a delicate balance between friendship and the possibility of more

Kristine Virsis

Kissing Other People or the House of Fame Monsters which boy the barmaid willA book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends. Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream blocks, each autonomous yet resonant with attachments and perversions as they come and go, repeat and echo. The book is as staunch as it