Sunday September 23, 2012 at Queen's Park, 11am - 6pm
Jenny Sampirisi
Event Info: Great Books Marquee at 1:00 PM
Jenny Sampirisi is the author of the novel is/was from Insomniac Press. She is the Managing Editor of BookThug where she also edits the Department of Narrative Studies imprint, which focuses on innovative prose. She is co-director of the Toronto New School of Writing, a series of reading and writing workshops designed and facilitated by working writers. She teaches English Literature and Composition at Ryerson University. Croak is her first poetry collection.
Books
Croak
Croakis a frog-and-girl opera in three parts, played out like a YouTube mash up of mid-century cartoons, all set to a contemporary pop song. It parades, mutilates and reacquaints Kermit the Frog with Girl 00010111, Michigan J. with Aristophanes, and biblical plagues with caged canaries in a vaudevillian play of time, culture, gender and narrative. Combining vivisection and classical literature, empirical observation and philosophical speculation, Sampirisi’s grotesque characters splash and sparkle before moving toward their inevitable narrative end.
Coach House Books - $17.95 – Poetry
