The Pissing Women of Lafontaine
- Publisher
- Black Moss Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2005
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887534089
- Publish Date
- Jul 2005
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
Award-winning poet Roger Bell brings us a whimsical narrative set in the hamlet of Lafontaine, Ontario. The work grew out a commonplace notion that in order to keep animals out of the gardens, the best method was to spread human hair or resort to the "deployment" of human urine around the perimeter. This led to a series of poems that Bell was sharing with audiences at readings. When listeners discovered he was writing these poems, people came forward to tell him more "pissing stories."
Bell has turned these into a delightfully funny book, The Pissing Women of Lafontaine, and infused the poems with the kind of mirth that marked the writing of Stephen Leacock.
About the author
Roger Bell was born in Montreal, where he returned in 1997 after spending twenty-five years in other parts of Canada, the United States, Europe and Brazil. This is Roger's fourth book. His first, Letters To My Daughters, describes his two years hitchhiking around the world at twenty-two years of age; his second, Bates - A Pattern Breaker and his Friends, is a biography; his third, Sketches and Random Stories, is a memoir and a reprinted collection of his charcoal and pastel portraits. Roger currently lives in Montreal and Bonita Springs Florida with his wife, Ellen.
