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“Now may be the perfect moment—a moment that feels both menacing and ludicrous by turns—for us to read the witty and compassionate poems in This Insubstantial Pageant. Estha Weiner finds performers and audiences every- where she looks, from avant-garde venues to an urban rooftop barbecue, from the subway to the intimacies of lovers and families. When life collides with art and a Nazi shout interrupts a theater performance in the park, the familiar phrase, “free Shakespeare,” reverberates with new meanings. Conversely, raised on the movies, who’s to say we don’t all make “each event a rehearsal for that / starry starry day...”? These are the poems of a poet who has indeed, with open mind and open heart, “been having one hell /of a wonderful life.” We’re lucky, with this collection, to be able to join her, onstage and off.” —Ann Lauinger, author of Dime Saint, Nickel Devil
"The theater of the mind and the theatrical impulses of the body govern Estha Weiner’s smart, lively, and wide-ranging new book. Invoking film, theater, and the art of the actor, she explores the pageantry that unfolds on all the various stages that make up our lives. Jimmy Stewart and Robert Mitchum, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Mother and Father, Lover and Child, even MOMA and Momma become subtle metaphors for the dissonance between our private desires and our public avowals. Her wit and subtly cadenced music are accurately rendered and underline the passion of the true maker." —Tom Sleigh, author of eleven books of poetry, including The King’s Touch
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