Model Disciple

Michael Prior

ISBN 10: 155065439X / ISBN 13: 9781550654394

Published by Vehicule Press, CA, 2016

About this Item

A mesmerizing and moving first collection, Model Disciple gives us a poetry of two minds. Confounded by Japanese-Canadian legacies too painful to fully embrace, Michael Prior's split speakers struggle to understand themselves as they submit to their reinvention: "I am all that is wrong with the Old World, / and half of what troubles the New." Prior emerges as a poet not of identity, but identities. Invented identities, double identities, provisional identities-his art always bearing witness to a sense of self held long enough to shed at a moment's notice. Model Disciple's Ovidean shape-shifting is driven by formal mastery and mot juste precision. It's also one of the most commanding poetic debuts in years.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Model Disciple
• Publisher: Vehicule Press, CA
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155065439X
• ISBN 13: 9781550654394
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 124 grams

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Synopsis

A mesmerizing and moving first collection, Model Disciple gives us a poetry of two minds. Confounded by Japanese-Canadian legacies too painful to fully embrace, Michael Prior’s split speakers struggle to understand themselves as they submit to their reinvention: “I am all that is wrong with the Old World, / and half of what troubles the New.” Prior emerges as a poet not of identity, but identities. Invented identities, double identities, provisional identities—his art always bearing witness to a sense of self held long enough to shed at a moment’s notice. Model Disciple‘s Ovidean shape-shifting is driven by formal mastery and mot juste precision. It’s also one of the most commanding poetic debuts in years.

About the Author

Michael Prior's poems have appeared in many publications across North America and the UK. Winner of Walrus's Poetry Prize, Matrix Magazine’s LitPop Award, Grain’s Short Grain Contest, Magma Poetry’s Editors' Prize and Vallum’s Poetry Prize, Michael currently resides in Ithaca, New York, where he is an MFA candidate in poetry at Cornell University.