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Poetry Canadian

Standoff Terrain

by (author) Jocko Benoit

Publisher
Frontenac House Ltd.
Initial publish date
Sep 2010
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897181393
    Publish Date
    Sep 2010
    List Price
    $15.95

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Description

Standoff Terrain takes its inspiration from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. It is a book of love poems for losers, and since almost everybody has lost at love… well, this book is probably for you. In the end, these poems are about how power – and lack of power – affect who and why we love.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Jocko Benoit was born in Montreal and raised in Cape Breton, and explored the rest of Canada one university at a time until arriving in Edmonton, where he lived as a poetic marauder with the Stroll of Poets. He has written one collection of poetry, An Anarchist Dream, and his poems have appeared in magazines in Canada, the U.S., England and Australia. His stories have appeared inOn Spec and Tesseracts. His screenplays have been shortlisted in competitions in Canada and the U.S. He divides his time between Calgary and Washington, DC.