Self-Portrait Embracing a Fabulous Beast
- Publisher
- Frontenac House Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2023
- Category
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781989466513
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Self-Portrait Embracing a Fabulous Beast explores the need to connect at a time when getting too close to another person could cost one’s life. The poems in this collection delve into the unsafe zones of COVID-19, climate change, and the love-hate complexities of a dangerous relationship. Yet, for Nason, there is safety and redemption through language. He urges readers, through the exploration of an uninhibited imagination, to become “master of fire, slave to flames.” The title poem embodies the victorious epiphany—the poet’s ecstatic transformation, as he becomes fiery loins/ pulsing mind/ a strutting/glorious/line-scribbled day.
About the author
Award-winning author Jim Nason has published five poetry collections as well as a short story collection. Spirit of a Hundred Thousand Dead Animals is his third novel. His stories, essays and poems have been published in journals and anthologies across Canada and the US, including Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2008, 2010 and 2014 and he has been a finalist for the CBC Literary Award in both fiction and poetry categories. Jim holds degrees from McGill, Ryerson and York Universities and is the owner/publisher of Tightrope Books, Toronto. He is the founder and organizer of Canada’s annual human rights poetry event, Meet Me in the Middle: Writers on Rights. Jim is a frequent participant on fiction and poetry panels, and Spirit of a Hundred Thousand Dead Animals was inspired at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, where he was on a panel about sexuality in Canadian poetry.
