What is this book made of? Think of it as a verse-novel in parts, complete with characters who are solving mysteries and seeking love. Slug wakes up with an h-shaped rash and becomes obsessed with tracking down the source. Spitz & Spatz–a pair of three-and-a-half inch high lawyers–work to get Slug a better divorce settlement than the one he agreed to years prior. They end up losing Slug’s accent to the ex-wife, who had thought it the only tolerable thing about him. Butterfingers is a tightrope walker and Slug’s neighbor, identifiable by her tangible, siren-like voice. The lives of these characters are inter-cut with the texts of two etiquette manual writers, and concrete diagram poems of human organs. All told, this is an anatomy of poetry and slapstick, a lyrical pastiche of how we conduct ourselves in the urgent situations of love and duress, with a constant stress upon the visceral quality of the word.