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Poetry Lgbt

Jump Scare

by (author) Daniel Zomparelli

Publisher
Talonbooks
Initial publish date
Apr 2024
Category
LGBT, Death, Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781772016109
    Publish Date
    Apr 2024
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

At once raw and skillful, painful and funny, personal and pervasive, the poems in Jump Scare dig deep into mental health, neurodivergence, grief, dreams, monstrosity, sexuality, pop culture, queer consumer culture, and the commodification of identity. Jump Scare tackles isolation and loss head-on and thinks hard and with wry humour about how to position ourselves in our lonely, scary, compelling lives.

About the author

Daniel Zomparelli is editor-in-chief of Poetry Is Dead magazine and recipient of the 2011 Pandora’s Collective Publishers of Magazines Award. The fourth issue of Poetry Is Dead, “Vancouver: Influence,” was a key feature at the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference in 2011. Zomparelli is also program coordinator for the Megaphone magazine Community Creative Writing Program, which offers free creative writing classes for low-income and homeless people. He writes for and works with several magazines across Vancouver, including Geist, Megaphone, Sad Mag, Granville Online and, formerly, Adbusters. Davie Street Translations is Zomparelli’s first book of poems.

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Editorial Reviews

"Jump Scare offers both solace and humour when life’s curveballs become a bit too creepy." – Jill Mandrake, Simon Says

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