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This Cockeyed World

by (author) Jim Christy

Publisher
Guernica Editions
Initial publish date
Oct 2013
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550717174
    Publish Date
    Oct 2013
    List Price
    $15.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781550717181
    Publish Date
    Oct 2013
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

COCKEYED: askew, crooked, intoxicated, absurd; marked by bends or angles; incongruous, not straight. In other words, Jim Christy, Canada's most iconoclastic and irreverent poet, views this cockeyed world the way it is; not only with 20/20 but x-ray vision and often through laughter and tears.

About the author

Always in search of original characters and experiences, Jim Christy is a literary vagabond with few peers. He was once described by George Woodcock as “one of the last unpurged North American anarchistic romantics.” His publisher has called him a hip Indiana Jones; one reviewer credited him with a “Gary Cooper-like presence.” His buddies have included hobos, jazz musicians, boxers, and non-academic writers such as Charles Bukowski, Peter Trower and Joe Ferone. “I never dismiss another’s story out of hand,” he writes, “no matter what it’s about or how outrageous it may seem.” Christy’s often wry reminiscences of his travels, trysts and trials are fuelled by a hard-won pride. A gardener, a sculptor and a spoken word performer with a jazz/blues ensemble, Christy has been seen in film and television productions, usually in non-speaking roles as a thug or a gangster.

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Editorial Reviews

"[A wonderfully surreal, carnivalesque feel." “Stevie Howe, Quill & Quire