Soul on Standby
- Publisher
- Exile Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2010
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550961423
- Publish Date
- Jun 2010
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
Drawing on memory and its occasional fictions, these poems mix surreal captions, tongue-in-cheek cynicism, documentary techniques, self-parody, storytelling, and even traditional lyricism. Surprising and diverse, some of the topics presented include poetry that reduces cholesterol, a letter written to fields of grain back home, and a 1950s family's morning rituals.
About the author
ANTONY DI NARDO is a poet and teacher. He currently divides his time between Beirut, Lebanon?where he teaches English at International College?and central Canada. He is the author of two previous collections of poems: Alien, Correspondent (Brick Books, 2010) and Soul on Standby (Exile Editions, 2010).
Editorial Reviews
“Di Nardo has the feel of one of those 'adventurer/poet' types who can carry intimacy with them wherever they go, who can set up shop in newer and newer places and still come across as piercing and honest.” —Vox Populism on Alien, Correspondent