 [ Large Image ] | Lazy Bastardism: Essays & Reviews on Contemporary Poetry Carmine Starnino 2012 / Literary Criticism / $27.95 9781554471188 / Trade paper / 272 pp ‘If grown-ups don’t read poetry’, writes poet and critic Carmine Starnino, ‘it’s not because they have a bone to pick with poets. The truth is even more intolerable: they prefer not to. . . They’re just not that into us.’ In his latest collection of critical essays, Starnino reports on the state of poetry with his usual sleeves-rolled-up approach to literary criticism which synthesizes broad observation with close reading. Engaging both icons (Atwood, Birney, McKay, Moritz, bpNichol) and lesser-knowns (James Denoon, Anne Szumigalski, Peter Trower), Starnino writes with the style, wit and intensity of a poet-critic, offering confident, intelligent candour where we have too often settled for ‘bland, much-recycled truisms’. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016 Carmine Starnino 2020 / Canadian Poetry / $26.95 CAN 9781554472123 / Trade paper / 192 pp |  | Leviathan Carmine Starnino 2016 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN 9781554471546 / Trade paper / 80 pp |  | This Way Out Carmine Starnino 2009 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN 9781554470518 / Trade paper / 80 pp |  | With English Subtitles Carmine Starnino 2004 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN 9781894031899 / Trade paper / 80 pp |
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