Collecting the works of 50 modern Canadian poets, this anthology of verse points to an emerging openness toward form in the nation's poetry. The book includes nearly 200 poems from more than 20 presses and an essay that describes and explains the innovations of form that distinguish the featured writers.

The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Starnino, Carmine

Poetry

Signal Editions

In his new collection of poems, Carmine Starnino writes of mid-life within the context of family life, testing traditional views of masculinity against contemporary experience. Adopting the swagger of the "unoutshoutable big shots" of that generation of cabbies, factory-lifers and hard-ass dads that sired us, Starnino pursues the leviathan machismo that seemed to propel them. How does it square with the urbane young fathers he encounters taking their toddlers to play in the park, or the gear-obsessed quest for the perfect weed-free lawn? Moving from putting his restless child to bed to the hospital bedside of his dying father, Starnino's poems offer an intimate if unresolved portrait of an apprenticeship into manhood.

Leviathan

Gaspereau Pr

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The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry

Leviathan