 transcona
fragments 
AUTHOR: Jon Paul Fiorentino ISBN: 1894177118
transcona fragments is Jon Paul Fiorentino's second collection of poems. The book's point of departure is the suburban community of Transcona, a railway town that has been stitched to the city of Winnipeg. The poems move from vivid imagistic fragments that capture the essence of Transcona, to explorations of familial history, to sensitive, self-referential engagement of the "lyric I" – a voice made up of melancholy, anxiety and psychotropic experience. These are poems that offer the reader unique notions of home, memory, and self. "transcona fragments is a poetic disavowal, a landscape stripped of pretense. We are left wandering the streets of Transcona, terrified and strangely free. Fiorentino is 21st Century Beat, a Canadian Ginsberg ranting and restless."– Robert Budde "This is exciting new work, "adrenaline verse"– a poetics of place, of spray paint and precious words, a verse of wit and verve. There is music coming from these Manitoba streets!" –Mary di Michele
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