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Parrot With Tourette's

by (author) Richard Stevenson

Publisher
Black Moss Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2004
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887533983
    Publish Date
    Sep 2004
    List Price
    $17.95

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Description

Parrot with Tourette’s is a a narrative/lyric poke at suburban middle class valuesand cultural pretensions. Ventriloquism through the merely mimetic petbird that parrots back our nasty natty vernacular. It offers a world wheregeese can do bad Catskills stand-up, a citizen talks back to his serotonin reuptakeinhibitors (when he isn’t talking to his other organs), and missionariescorner joggers and dog walkers on the narrow asphalt path between theJapanese Garden and Canadian golf course.

About the author

Richard Stevenson was born in 1952 in Victoria, British Columbia. A prolific writer, Richard has published twelve collections of poetry (including Why Were All the Werewolves Men? (Thistledown, 1994), and Nothing Definite Yeti (Ekstasis Editions, 1999)) and four poetry chapbooks. Richard won the 1994 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for From the Mouths of Angels (Ekstasis, 1993). He is also the co-founder of Naked Ear, a poetry-jazz performance ensemble.

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