Parrot With Tourette's
- Publisher
- Black Moss Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2004
- Category
- Canadian
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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.
