Mirror Image
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2014
- Category
- General, Love, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550718225
- Publish Date
- Mar 2014
- List Price
- $15.00
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Description
In Mirror Image, Len Gasparini conflates lyrical poetry and prose into one voice, a voice that recalls the rock-and-roll Fifties, and then segues into a woman's dramatic monologue, followed by two maverick poets philosophizing on women and sexuality, and concludes with a narrative tinged with nostalgia and tempered with irony.
About the author
Born in Windsor, Ontario, Len Gasparini is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry, five short-story collections, including The Snows of Yesteryear (2011), The Undertaker's Wife (,2007), and A Demon in My View (2003), which was translated into French as Nouvelle noirceur. He has also written two children’s books, a work of non-fiction, and a one-act play. In 1990, he was awarded the F.G. Bressani Literary Prize for poetry. In 2010, he won the NOW Open Poetry Stage event. Having lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New Orleans, and Washington State, he now divides his time between Toronto and his hometown. Mirror Image, his latest collection, combines poetry and prose.
Excerpt: Mirror Image (by (author) Len Gasparini)
When I was thirteen / I spent my summer vacation / hunting suicide knobs / among the acres of wrecks / in my father's automobile graveyard.
Editorial Reviews
Among writers across the country, Len Gasparini is a kind of legend, a man whom people love to tell stories about.
Marty Gervais, The Windsor Star
In Mirror Image, a compact and spirited collection that includes poems, a dramatic monologue, a dramatic dialogue and a short story, Guernica has produced a portrait of veteran writer Len Gasparini that is by turns droll, lyrical, wistful and artlessly attentive to craft.
Arc Poetry Magazine
Gasparini was a liberating and inspirational find. Here was a poet whose straight ahead no bullshit persona came jumping off of the page and grabbed me by the collar.
Today's Book of Poetry
Chief among the motifs in Gasparini’s poetry are the disorienting effects of travel, the poetic imagination and external reality.
Marino Tuzi
Len Gasparini’s poetry offers his readers a unique and disturbingly honest glimpse of the world as he has come to know it through travel, love, and loss over the course of a palpably rich and tumultuous life.
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