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Asphalt Cigar

by (author) Kevin Connolly

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Sep 1995
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889104693
    Publish Date
    Sep 1995
    List Price
    $12.95

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Description

Clyde Barrow's last daydream suggests a different finale; a reanimated Nietzsche contemplates Hitler's checked trousers; a dream about fast food reveals the secret life of a supermodel; Christopher Columbus plays the ship's lounge with singing radio. In this surreal, whimsical, and darkly ironic first collection, Connolly agilely navigates the more devious turns of the contemporary psyche.

About the author

Kevin Connolly’s previous collections include Asphalt Cigar (finalist, Gerald Lampert Award), Drift (winner, Trillium Poetry Prize), and Revolver (finalist, Griffin Poetry Prize, Trillium Book Award). He teaches poetry in the MFA program at the University of Guelph-Humber and has been poetry faculty at the Banff Centre’s May Writing Studio. Connolly was poetry editor at Toronto’s Coach House Books from 2008–2013, and currently selects and edits poetry for McClelland & Stewart.

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