Imaginary Maps

Epp, Darrell

ISBN 10: 1897109326 / ISBN 13: 9781897109328

Published by Signature Editions, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Imaginary Maps
• Publisher: Signature Editions
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897109326
• ISBN 13: 9781897109328
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

In his startling debut collection, Darrell Epp brings us a city haunted by monsters and movie stars, where hope and rage, sacred and carnal, mundane and surreal are uneasy neighbours. A city whose downtown swells with pleasures and pains too big for words, and where every dead end is suffused with an unbidden kindness, "an accidental choreography."

Imaginary Maps is as funny as it is sad, as entertaining as it is insightful. Terse or lyrical, his lines are always fresh, always surprising. Behind the jokes, behind the jilted lovers, werewolves, and dead celebrities lurks a deadly serious project: slowing down time in a culture obsessed with speeding it up. Savouring the precious, temporary/eternal moments, Epp reminds us that not paying attention may be the biggest crime of all.

About the Author

Darrell Epp is a poet, freelance journalist, and playwright whose work has appeared widely in magazines around the world, including Maisonneuve, Poetry Ireland, Sub-Terrain, and The Saranac Review. Born in Toronto, he currently resides in Hamilton, Ontario where he earns a living locking up trains for CN Rail.