OSRIC: "My hair is falling out, and no one reads my poems." OSWALD: "My liver is bad, and everyone reads my ads." In this opening dialogue between Osric (a poet) and Oswald (a copywriter) Nemerov exhibits qualities that remain constant through these 26 new and selected essays: the ability to find the perfect wry phrase to show that the world is not quite as it should be and the courage to attack with wit and humor subjects that in others elicit...