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.
Following upon the critical successes of his previous two books, Bake My Brain (Mosaic Press, 1997) and Rotten poetry fish (Mosaic Press, 2000) comes ...
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...
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...
“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...
“Writing is my way to travel into interior countries of darkness & light & bring back stories, snapshots, fragments to astonish, to nourish, to chal...