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list price: $18
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Jan 1995
ISBN:9781895636086
publisher:
Anvil Press
Description
Lonesome Monsters is a collection of prose and poetry from Vancouver writer Bud Osborn. Mr. Osborn's writing is as much chronicle, confession, testimony, as it is poetry - an unwavering account of inner-city struggle and the tenacity of the human spirit.
Praise for Lonesome Monsters:
"The reader has no choice but to react physically to these poems packed with images from a world where compassion is scarce." (Susan Musgrave, The Vancouver Sun)
"Speaking of jarring but effective writing, Bud Osborn's Lonesome Monsters (Anvil) successfully dramatizes the harsher side of urban life." (Geist)
"... some West Coast poets are usefully pursuing their craft within as well as without the city limits. Bud Osborn is one of these. Like the Turner of Hard Core Logo, he glories in an on-the-road persona ... Like Turner also, though with more than a hint of Ginsberg behind him, he employs the iterative effect of the catalogue poem to recreate the cacophony of 'downtown eastside sidewalks' with their load of 'those who wear the violent evenings / on faces bruised black & purple // & those crawling drunk & sick // & those who fall or get pushed or raving leap' ('down here')." (The Antigonish Review)
Contributor Notes
Bud Osborn has been a poet and social activist for nearly 40 years. A former director of the Vancouver/Richmond Health Board, Bud Osborn was instrumental in founding such harm reduction organizations as VANDU (Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users), GTA (Grief to Action), and PRG (Political Response Group). Recently he has launched Creative Resistance, a group that advocates the repeal of drug prohibition and its "War on Drugs" strategy. Bud Osborn's poetry credo is "fidelity to lived experience." He has published five books of poetry which include 'Lonesome Monsters' (Anvil, 1995), 'Hundred Block Rock' (Arsenal Pulp, 1999), 'Oppenheimer Park' (1998, in collaboration with artist Richard Tetrault), and 'Keys to Kingdoms' (Get to the Point, 1999) which won the City of Vancouver Book Award.
