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Poetry Canadian

Class Clown

by (author) Pino Coluccio

Publisher
Biblioasis
Initial publish date
Aug 2017
Category
Canadian, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771961554
    Publish Date
    Aug 2017
    List Price
    $18.95

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Description

More punk than prog, neither light nor overweight, the verse in Pino Coluccio's second book hews to the classic themes of love, death and the passage of time, while presenting a cast of longers and losers whose admirable stubborn pluck is also at times tragic. A collection that above all champions that highest of human art forms: clowning around.

About the author

Pino Coluccio lives and writes in Toronto.

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Editorial Reviews

Winner of the 2018 Trillium Book Award for Poetry

Praise for Class Clown

"[Coluccio] writes short, witty poems about love, death, and the absurdities of modern life.... I kept going back to [Class Clown] over and over and over again." —CBC's Sunday Edition

"Coluccio proves that light verse isn’t necessarily lightweight.” —Toronto Star Praise for Pino Coluccio

"Like those comedians who reveal painful family secrets for laughs, you'll have a hard time catching Pino Coluccio at one of his many rhyming bluffs. With a free-ranging and irreverent mix of high and low, and showing a splendid gift for satire and biting portraiture, Coluccio writes an unflinching, crisply-constructed poetry that wears its sad truths lightly—though they sting no less for it." —Carmine Starnino

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