Bel CantoPoems that restore primacy to lyric subjectivity, sensibility, paradox, and alterity. Bel Canto is a collection belonging to the post confessional tradition, whose protean speaker, a fast talking theorist brimming with hypotheses and maxims, seeks to dismantle various power hierarchies by a dramatic staging of interiority and sensuous rebirth of meaning and desire, in moving, complex, funny, and cutting poems that cannot be reduced to information and