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Reviving the neglected sedoka form, James Roderick Burns’ second collection explores the interplay of love and work in turn-of-the-century Coney Island: a Scottish spirit merchant, marooned at the end of the season by an affair gone sour, writes to his son in order to understand himself; the madam of a boardwalk whorehouse sounds out seven of her customers; a carnival barker revolts against the crude methods he must use to pull in the crowds. Greetings from Luna Park, with its vision of duty and vanished pleasure, creates a place where for a moment we find and lose everything.