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Motel of the Opposable Thumbs
Motel of the Opposable Thumbs | Stuart Ross
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Poetry. In MOTEL OF THE OPPOSABLE THUMBS, Stuart Ross continues to ignore trends in Canadian poetry, further following the journey he began over four decades ago with his discoveries of the works of Stephen Crane, E. E. Cummings, Nelson Ball, Ron Padgett, Victor Coleman, Tom Clark, Nicanor Parra, Joe Rosenblatt, and David McFadden. Over the years, his influences have snowballed: Lisa Jarnot, Alice Burdick, Richard Huttel, Opal Louis Nations, Joanne Kyger, Bill Knott, Max Jacob, Larry Fagin, Heather Christle, Charles North, Emily Petit, Paul Guest, James Tate, Valéry Larbaud, Joe Brainard, Matthew Zapruder, Harryette Mullen, Dara Wier, Dag T. Straumsvåg, Mark Strand, Wislawa Szymborska, Mary Ruefle, John Ashbery, Sommer Browning, Jim Smith, Benjamin Peret, Renee Gladman, and more. In this eclectic, pleasurable gathering of poems and sequences, Mr. Ross unapologetically leaps from howls of grief and despair to zany incursions into surrealism and the absurd. He embraces this panoply of approaches to respond to our cantankerous existential dilemma. All that, and it's structured after Béla Bartók's "String Quartet No. 4"! Get a room and enjoy.
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EXTREME REALISM.

(No, no; I‘m sure there are plenty of Toronto writers who write about things other than writers writing in Toronto.)

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Eggs + coffee + poetry. This is the first time I‘ve read Stuart Ross, and I like his style. These poems are a small, intense slice of madness.

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