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Needs Improvement
Jon Paul Fiorentino
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Description for Needs Improvement
Paperback. The irreverent poetry of report cards, lesson plans, city mottos, invigilation guides, and, of course, Michel Foucault .. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
"Needs Improvement is a book of a new logic making its way from witty statements to slow-moving lyric villanelles, achieving brilliantly a contemporary sense of streaming among words, places and 'no self.'"--Nicole Brossard Whether misreading sixth grade pedagogical materials or offering visual schematics for reading Jacques Foucault and Judith Butler, Jon Paul Fiorentino's sixth poetry collection asks us to reconsider our engagement with received information--but it does so with a wink in the detention room, a dodgeball to the gut during recess.
"Needs Improvement is a book of a new logic making its way from witty statements to slow-moving lyric villanelles, achieving brilliantly a contemporary sense of streaming among words, places and 'no self.'"--Nicole Brossard Whether misreading sixth grade pedagogical materials or offering visual schematics for reading Jacques Foucault and Judith Butler, Jon Paul Fiorentino's sixth poetry collection asks us to reconsider our engagement with received information--but it does so with a wink in the detention room, a dodgeball to the gut during recess.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
Number of Pages
84
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452806
SKU
V9781552452806
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Ref
99-15
About Jon Paul Fiorentino
Jon Paul Fiorentino: Jon Paul Fiorentino is the author of the novel Stripmalling, which was shortlisted for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and four poetry collections, including The Theory of the Loser Class, which was shortlisted for the A. M. Klein Prize. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches writing at Concordia University, edits Matrix magazine.
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