We’re in love, but we’re still Millennials. / What’s wrong with our hearts is congenital. 
Splicing Byronic rhymes and Auden’s meters with twenty-first century irreverence and the profane juxtaposition of a late-stage Twitter feed, the poems in Barfly, Michael Lista’s third collection, are alternately aggressive, humane, LOL funny, and raw with break-your-heart vulnerability.