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David Bateman and Hiromi Gotos collaborative poem, Wait Until Late Afternoon, is a nostalgic/anti-nostalgic creative autobiographical conversation. Tracing their relationship to their fathers, their lives, and to each other through the transfiguring effects of alcohol, the narrative travels from glamorous nightclubs and the Jade Market in Taipei to Peterborough, Ontario and Nanton, Alberta. Through memory, mourning, geographies and sexualities, this poetic narrative is at once a memento mori and meditations upon wabi sabi.
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About the Author:
David Bateman is a spoken word poet and performance artist based in Toronto. His most recent performances, A Brief History of White Virgins or The Night Freddy Kissed Me, and What s It Like? were presented in Vancouver, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto during the winter of 2009. He teaches drama, literature, and creative writing at a variety of Canadian post-secondary institutions. Hiromi Goto is the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, and The Kappa Child. She has also written a childrens novel, The Water of Possibility, and a collection of short stories, Hopeful Monsters. Her most recent publication is a young adult novel, Half World, published by Penguin Canada. She and David Bateman collaborated on and showcased a performance piece entitled The Cowboy and the Geisha.
Review:
Bateman and Goto share these pages with a tipsy, razor-edged humility. Intriguing, painful, funny and moving, these poems speak to each other in a conversation that seduced me like a row of glittering, multi-coloured cocktails. You can t just have one... I downed the whole book in one sitting. Evalyn Parry --Cover Review
Fix yourself a big Manhattan (rye, not bourbon), then sit in your favourite chair as far as possible from the dirty dishes, and read your way through this lyric conversation. Hear it aloud inside your barely sober head. These are words you can give yourself to with confidence, they are that precise and that evocative. George Bowering --Cover Review
Fix yourself a big Manhattan (rye, not bourbon), then sit in your favourite chair as far as possible from the dirty dishes, and read your way through this lyric conversation. Hear it aloud inside your barely sober head. These are words you can give yourself to with confidence, they are that precise and that evocative. George Bowering --Cover Review
Fix yourself a big Manhattan (rye, not bourbon), then sit in your favourite chair as far as possible from the dirty dishes, and read your way through this lyric conversation. Hear it aloud inside your barely sober head. These are words you can give yourself to with confidence, they are that precise and that evocative. George Bowering --Cover Review
Fix yourself a big Manhattan (rye, not bourbon), then sit in your favourite chair as far as possible from the dirty dishes, and read your way through this lyric conversation. Hear it aloud inside your barely sober head. These are words you can give yourself to with confidence, they are that precise and that evocative. George Bowering --Cover Review
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- PublisherFrontenac House
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1897181302
- ISBN 13 9781897181300
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages120
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