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Any chapter that starts with Bigfoot is bound by the Law of Awesome to be awesome... But anyways, I really did enjoy this chapter. I try to stay away from the typical (like Parasitic Sushi) but this chapter discusses things I'd never thought of... like Death looking like a professional wrestler. This chapter really got the wheels turning. I like focusing on unusual, gross and disturbing things and making them even more so but now I have the urge to do things with my work in the same way Ashley Warner did. She took something simple like laundry and twisted into something unusual. Somehow she was about to take a line like "Thank God I stopped liking myself the day before." and make it work for a poem titled "Laundry"... somehow she turns doing the laundry into a gateway for the reader to see the narrators self-hatred. The read gets to much more from the poem than what they originally expected from the title. But moving on... This chapter really opened my eyes to the way a poet can "[adopt] the opposite linguistic and rhetorical registers... about [their] chosen subject." It makes me feel like possibilities are endless if I can tweak the language and make the right connections.
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