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Carmine Starnino

Carmine Starnino has published five collections of poetry, including This Way Out, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 2009 and recently translated into French by Éditions Hashtag under the title Par Ici La Sortie. His most recent collection is Leviathan. His other books include The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry and Lazy Bastardism, a collection of essays on contemporary poetry. He has received numerous awards, including the CAA Prize for Poetry, the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and the F.G. Bressani Prize, in addition to being shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Prize for the best first book of poetry. He lives in Montreal with his wife and three children.

[ Large Image ]	Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016 Carmine Starnino 2020 / Canadian Poetry / $26.95 9781554472123 / Trade paper / 192 pp Dirty Words offers a selection of Carmine Starnino’s best poems, drawing from his five published collections: The New World (1997), Credo (2000), With English Subtitles (2004), This Way Out (2009), and Leviathan (2016). Arranged chronologically, Dirty Words follows the development of Starnino’s formal and thematic preoccupations over two decades, revealing how his affinity for rhythm and sound, his muscular ratcheting of language, and his facility for keen observation and evocative description deepen with each new offering. While his poems and their subjects—such as relationships, family, Italian-isms, uprootedness, and masculinity—are nested in the familiar context of contemporary culture, Starnino’s particular artfulness with language and form result in moments of beauty and insight where the personal takes on transcendence. Yet always, his poems are rooted in elemental human experiences: as he writes in “The True Story of my Father,” I would like this, finally, to be a story of love. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart
	Other Books by this Author
	Leviathan Carmine Starnino 2016 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN 9781554471546 / Trade paper / 80 pp
	Lazy Bastardism: Essays & Reviews on Contemporary Poetry Carmine Starnino 2012 / Literary Criticism / $27.95 CAN 9781554471188 / Trade paper / 272 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