From the back cover:

"'The trick is knowing how to fake it,' says the character Napoleon in these intense and dazzling poems. With a shiftiness unusual in poetic utterance, the poems appear to be faking themselves into a reality far more stark and terrible than we suspect. The rhetoric of the Carnival and the Freak Show is used to create a strange world we end up recognizing as our own: constantly noisy and clamouring for our amazed attention."
 - Kristjana Gunnars