Streaking! : The Collected Poems Of Gary Botting - 9781681814193

Half a century ago, Canadian poet Gary Botting pioneered the use of shaped poetry to achieve visual effects often experienced by the reader as vertigo. Most of his published poems pushed the accepted boundaries of poetic and linguistic structure and thematic acceptability. Now his experimental poems are regarded as avant-garde. In Streaking! The Collected Poems of Gary Botting, the poet explores themes of unabashed sensuality in a variety of forms, from haikus, sonnets, odes, and ballads to his full-length poetic drama, Prometheus Rebound. His acerbic wit finds voice in poetic sequences such as Monomonster in Hell, where he satirizes his own naivet? as a teenaged missionary in Hong Kong. ?His sense of humor ? rare in Canadian poets ? giggles across the page,? says one critic.

Author: Gary Botting

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

Publication Date: Jan 20, 2016

Number of Pages: 334 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1681814196

ISBN-13: 9781681814193