Following upon the critical successes of his previous two books, Bake My Brain (Mosaic Press, 1997) and Rotten poetry fish (Mosaic Press, 2000) comes a new collection by Hume Cronyn. Critics have taken note of Hume Cronyn, as a truly unique voice in contemporary poetry, and they have heaped praise on his work.

This is a very, very special volume of creative work. It is a collection of writing and art originating at PARC, a community centre that offers a safe haven from the harsh realities of the street and the intolerable conditions of substandard boarding houses. PARC's membership includes people who are marginalized, socially-isolated, homeless, suffering addictions, new immigrants, the working poor and the poverty-stricken. But PARC is more. As one member states: I appreciate that PARC feeds me when I can't make ends meet, but, more important, I come to PARC for spiritual sustenance. Every city...

“Writing is my way to travel into interior countries of darkness & light & bring back stories, snapshots, fragments to astonish, to nourish, to challenge.” —Hume Cronyn Hume Cronyn’s work has received wide critical acclaim: “...one of the best books I’ve read in a long time, an undogmatic manifesto that’s anarchistic, funny, and mad. It’s so good I’m grateful to it that I didn’t want it to end. Everything about this book – its energy, fierce comic wisdom, its stuffed and muscled lines –fills me with wonder. The poems are willfully raw and honest, compelled by...