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list price: $16
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Apr 2012
ISBN:9781897535929
publisher:
Anvil Press
Description
Winner, Exist Through the Giftshop Award (2013)
Best Poetry of 2012, Winnipeg Free Press
You Exist. Details Follow. is Stuart Ross's seventh full-length collection of poetry. In these poems, Ross veers in opposite directions: narrative confessional poems, and works that might be considered abstract expressionist, and a lot both in between and beyond those boundaries. Each poem breathes with the signature weirdness, the sharp wit, and gentle awe that Ross is known for. Here you'll find confounding centos, fractured sonnets, delirious lists, poems composed through surrealist strategies, a new addition to Ross's autobiographical Razovsky series, and more.
Praise for You Exist. Details Follow.:
"Ross's absurdism doesn't rely on unconnected sentences, abstract thought, or an unusual, elevated vocabulary: rather, his poetry delights in the silliness of concrete mundanity. ... The collection thus begins by launching us into a happily disjointed mind, into images connected as though by sparking, duct-taped wires, buzzing weird electrical fires of thought." (Matrix Magazine)
"A voice all his own. Stuart Ross unleashes his refreshing snark in his latest collection of poems ... He runs the gamut from his own brand of absurdist expressionism to fond childhood memories and poetic confessions. ... Ross wisely and parenthetically writes: (Tension is a good thing sometimes. For example, you should stick it in art.) Stuart Ross loves that tension, fortunately for his readers." (Uptown)
"I personally believe Stuart Ross may be Canada's most important poet ... Ross could be called a 'narrative surrealist' but that, like most labels, does not adequately capture the gymnastic feats of construction he employs. At his best Ross combines images and emotions with the same alacrity of a Max Ernst or Salvador Dali. The literal is a sheer curtain that surrealists drape like a fabric or a fold in time. Ross gives a master class in almost every poem in the delicate art of balancing truth from fiction, what we imagine from what we know to be real ... For me, there is no poet as entertaining as Stuart Ross and very few as smart. Ross builds a new universe with You Exist. Details Follow. and we get to travel in it like explorers entering a new dimension, luckily it comes with instructions and a guide map for home.
"Stuart Ross looks at the world through a different lens, how extraordinarily lucky we are that he shares that view with us." (Michael Dennis, blog)
Contributor Notes
Stuart Ross is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. He is the author of about a dozen books and countless chapbooks. His story collection 'Buying Cigarettes for the Dog' won the 2010 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Stuart is the fiction and poetry editor for 'This Magazine', a regular columnist for 'subTerrain', and has his own imprint, "a stuart ross book," at Mansfield Press. He was the 2010 Writer in Residence at Queen's University, and has led writing workshops across the country. After half a century in Toronto, Stuart moved to Cobourg, Ontario, in 2009. 'You Exist. Details Follow.' is his seventh full-length poetry collection.
