Elegy for Pangaea

Mark Leidner's third poetry collection, <i>Elegy for Pangaea</i>, is as funny, strange, and epic as his two previous collections, <i>Returning the Sword to the Stone</i> and <i>Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me</i>. His new poems explore faith, grief, money, myth, parenting, and poetry itself to create a collection as full of tantalizing ideas and dilemmas as "an enormous library with a waterbed floor." As mystical as it is satirical, as audacious as it is personal, as hysterical as it is disconcerting, in <i>Elegy for Pangaea</i>, Leidner once again shows us that the only way out of irony is through.