\u201cSearing in subject matter, profound in meaning and sympathy\u2026the art of the street\u2019s voice.\u201d \u2014A.F. Moritz<\/p>\n

Joe Fiorito is a journalist who has worked as a city columnist for the Montreal Gazette<\/em>, the Globe & Mail,<\/em> the National Post<\/em> and the Toronto Star<\/em> newspapers. He won the National Newspaper Award for Columns in 1995; the Bressani Prize for Short Fiction in 2000; and the City of Toronto Book Award in 2003.<\/p>\n

He is the author of seven books: Comfort Me with Apples<\/em> (collection of columns), Tango on the Main<\/em> (collection of columns), The Closer We Are to Dying<\/em> (memoir), The Song Beneath the Ice<\/em> (novel), Union Station<\/em> (non-fiction), Rust Is a Form of Fire<\/em> (non-fiction). His most recent work \u2013\u2002co-authored with Richard Atkinson \u2013 The Life Crimes and Hard Times of Ricky Atkinson, Leader of the Dirty Tricks Gang<\/em>, was released in the summer of 2017.<\/p>\n

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Joe Fiorito\u2019s powerful City Poems<\/em> is new with the freshness of sudden light on what was always beside us, but we became dulled to it, or turned away: it was too constantly troubling, too difficult. Searing in subject matter, profound in meaning and sympathy, the poems are also wonderfully inventive and skillful in poetic form, while remaining casual, colloquial: the art of the street\u2019s voice. They\u2019re very short: shooting stars. But they constitute pinpoint windows on vast regions, unknown or ignored worlds: struggling people, obscurely dying people, their full reality: the body-and-soul details of pain and loss, endurance, heroism, joys, ugliness and beauty, in the rough corners, wastelands, and crevices where insulted, injured life manages to persist amid the expanse of glass, steel, and money. \u2014from the Preface<\/p>\n

Poetry 2018 \u2022 5 x 8 inches \u2022 PB 92 pages \u2022 9781550967708<\/p>\n

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