The Sky is a Sky in the Sky
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2024
- Category
- Death, NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552454916
- Publish Date
- Sep 2024
- List Price
- $23.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770568310
- Publish Date
- Sep 2024
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
The sky’s the limit in these funny and sad head-in-the-clouds poems.
The Sky Is a Sky in the Sky is a laboratory of poetic approaches and experiments. It mines the personal and imaginary lives of Stuart Ross and portraits of his grief and internal torment, while paying homage to many of the poet’s literary heroes. It contains new entries in Ross’s ongoing Razovsky poems, prose poems, a remix of an entire poetry book by dear friend Nelson Ball, a couple of collaborative poems, some one-line poems, and lots more. In an era of thematic poetry and conceptual poetry books, this collection is a celebration of possibilities and miscellany.
About the author
Stuart Ross published his first literary pamphlet on the photocopier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. Through the 1980s, he stood on Toronto’s Yonge Street wearing signs like “Writer Going To Hell,” selling over 7,000 poetry and fiction chapbooks. A long-time literary press activist, he is a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective, Editor at Mansfield Press, and for eight years was Fiction & Poetry Editor at This Magazine. He is the author of two collaborative novels, two story collections, seven poetry books, and the novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew, which co-won the 2012 Mona Elaine Adilman Award for Fiction on a Jewish Theme. He has also published a collection of essays, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer, and co-edited the anthology Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament. Buying Cigarettes for the Dog won the 2010 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. His most recent poetry book is You Exist. Details Follow. He lives in Cobourg, Ontario.
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Motel of the Opposable Thumbs
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Certain Details
The Poetry of Nelson Ball
Sparrow Came Down Resplendent, A
Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer
Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer
A Hamburger in a Gallery
My Planet of Kites
