Let's Pretend We Never Met
- Publisher
- Pedlar Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2007
- Category
- General
-
Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897141151
- Publish Date
- Mar 2007
- List Price
- $20.00
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Description
Let's Pretend We Never Met realizes the ten-year fixation the late great Roman poet Catullus has had on Nathaniel G. Moore. Catullus becomes filter, lens, judge, subject and object. From the subjective finality of first-person illusory, Let's Pretend We Never Met is a poetic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. With dramatic pauses, near-novella overtures and biographical necessity Let's Pretend We Never Met cashes in nostalgia for a more bitter and honest currency for today's disposable culture. Like Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kidd, Moore's poetry is a obsessed poetic biography, showcasing Moore at the height of his grave shift powers as a romantic pain magnet and exorciser—attempting to Houdini Catullus and himself from regret, depravity, and other histrionic side effects of modern life. With special appearances by Catullus’ agent, Juventius, Rufus, Clodia Metelli and more.
About the author
Once described as a "Toronto small press fixture" by Flare Magazine, Nathaniel G. Moore is the author of seven books, including Savage, winner of the 2014 ReLit Award for Best Novel. His work has appeared in Canadian Literature, The Globe and Mail, PRISM international, The National Post, This Magazine, Taddle Creek, The Georgia Straight and Broken Pencil. A lifelong Torontonian, he currently lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick with his wife Amber McMillan, the poet and poetry editor (Nightwood Editions, PRISM international, Douglas & McIntyre), and daughter. He works as a publicist for Nightwood Editions, Douglas & McIntyre and Harbour Publishing and moonlights as a freelance journalist.