The Social Life of String is Len Gasparini’s first book of poetry since his Collected Poems (2015). With characteristic vigor and honesty, he continues his investigations into the themes that have absorbed his work from the beginning—the struggle to give expression and meaning to the experience and understanding of our situation in the world. Gasparini meditates on youth and mortality and natural phenomena in poems that pulse and shimmer with imagination. He writes with the vitality of a man coming to terms with his own life. Anyone who reads “Halloween 1945,” “A Walk Through Lanspeary Park,” or “Dog Star” can only agree.

Born in Windsor, Ontario, Len Gasparini is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry, five short-story collections, including The Snows of Yesteryear (2011), The Undertaker's Wife (,2007), and A Demon in My View (2003), which was translated into French as Nouvelle noirceur. He has also written two children’s books, a work of non-fiction, and a one-act play. In 1990, he was awarded the F.G. Bressani Literary Prize for poetry. In 2010, he won the NOW Open Poetry Stage event. Having lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New Orleans, and Washington State, he now divides his time between Toronto and his hometown. Mirror Image, his latest collection, combines poetry and prose.

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