At turns humorous, beautiful, and brutal, Matt Zambito"s poems in THE FANTASTIC CONGRESS OF ODDITIES hurtle readers from their own front doors to the subatomic, from honey buzzards to the afterlife, all while celebrating the unknown and lending empathy to a sad, glorious, and unkind world. "In THE FANTASTIC CONGRESS OF ODDITIES, America is as "complicated as consciousness," and Matt Zambito"s witty, nervy poems are its brain waves. Holding up a funhouse mirror, he intellectualizes a world in which crazy ideas fall just beyond his ken. If indeed "The meaning of life / is the search for / meaning, a meaningless / quest made meaningful / by repetitions," then you"ll want to put THE FANTASTIC CONGRESS OF ODDITIES and its quirky and passionate poems on repeat."-Joe Bonomo "Matt Zambito"s gregarious assertions and explosive honesty about clumsiness will catch the reader in a state of embarrassment or relief. There are love poems, yes, but this book harnesses the wild horses of his and...