Previously Feared Darkness
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781770411647
- Publish Date
- Sep 2013
- List Price
- $18.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770904484
- Publish Date
- Sep 2013
- List Price
- $13.99
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P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=msonospacing>Picking up and pulling at the vibrant threads of Robert Priest’s last book of poems, Reading the Bible Backward, this collection explores new themes while spanning multiple strands of thought. One strand leads, with unabashed candor and elegance, through the author’s love life; another, through fields of praise; a third experiments with automated metaphors and delivers a challenging new selection of mash-ups that Priest calls meme splices. A fourth thread rekindles the author’s love of the prose poem to produce a suite of strange tales, bizarre playlets, and phonetic modifications. With flair and daring, Previously Feared Darkness consorts with forms and subject matter to present the work of a master getting deep, nasty, and hilarious with the best of them.
About the author
Robert Priest is known as a poet for both adults and children and has been published widely and internationally. He is also a performing musician, a songwriter and playwright (creator of the well-loved children’s play Knights of the Endless Day) and leads literacy workshops in schools. He has released numerous recordings for children with the musical group The Teds and a spoken word CD. Robert Priest lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Editorial Reviews
P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=msonospacing>“He is certainly one of the most imaginatively inventive poets in the country.”—Pacific Rim Review
P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=msonospacing>“Priest renders the quotidian and intellectualizes it for us in a genius-sampling tool—himself.” —Broken Pencil magazine
