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Poetry Canadian

Impersonating Flowers

by (author) David Bateman

Publisher
Frontenac House Ltd.
Initial publish date
Apr 2007
Category
Canadian, LGBT
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897181119
    Publish Date
    Apr 2007
    List Price
    $15.95

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Description

Rated PG, these poems loosely chart an adolescence – moving swiftly into middle age – experienced without parental guidance. As the poet morphs from poodle to petal, finding solace in Haiku (and other profound decorative forms) he considers a timeless revisionist anecdote – When he was just a little girl he said to his mother, “What will I be?”

Impersonating Flowers answers some of the questions his mother was afraid to ask.

About the author

Compulsive Acts editor David Bateman is a performance poet, literature and creative writing instructor, journalist, and visual artist living and working in Toronto.

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