Syllabus of Errors

. . . we are fixed to perpetrate the species—

    I meant perpetuate—as if our duty


were coupled with our terror. As if beauty

    itself were but a syllabus of errors.

Troy Jollimore's first collection of poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was hailed by the New York Times as "a snappy, entertaining book," and led the San Francisco Chronicle to call him "a new and exciting voice in American poetry." And h…