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Threats and Gossip

by (author) Joe Cummings

Publisher
McArthur & Company
Initial publish date
Aug 2007
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552786734
    Publish Date
    Aug 2007
    List Price
    $18.95

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Description

In this skillfully controlled collection, we view a world divided into two categories -- threats and gossip. Threats are revealed in a morning swim of in a 'slash of red lipstick' or in a walk down a midnight street. Gossip is heard from a bar stool, over breakfast in Italy, or from little girls running in summer dresses. Unsettling and at time humorous, charming and sometimes chilling, Joe Cummings captures memories, moments, and suspicions, and frames them with a powerful and poignant clarity.

About the author

Joe Cummings works in the national radio newsroom of CBC. He lives outside of Toronto. This is his first poetry collection.

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