Tooth and Shoe by Heikki Huotari

Tooth and Shoe by Heikki Huotari
Published:2018
Poetry
ISBN: 978-0-9990050-4-0

Simultaneously hyper organized and utterly chaotic, Tooth and Shoe asks us to take a second glance at the seeming normality of our daily lives. Keeping with the American surrealist tradition, Huotari’s leaps of semantic faith confront us with the bizarre nature of our time. In this chapbook, Huotari’s lyrical prose poems oscillate between intense moments of scientific clarity and non-sequitur absurdity – “If I own the microscope, the microscope has never bitten me or I have never seen the microscope before today I’ll say, my microscope won’t bite” – in order to isolate moments of oddity. In this chapbook, Huotari reminds us that, while the world is comprised of an entirely entropic chaos just beneath our thin veneer of reality, “The universe is largely laughing matter.”