Skullduggery (e-book) (used book) | Asa Boxer | bookbook.eu

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Shortlisted for the 2011 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry

A masterful book from one of our gifted young poets.

The poems in Skullduggery, Asa Boxer’s masterful new book, have a simple warning: trust nothing. Like the book’s hilarious final poem, which recasts Canada’s discovery as a hoax from the Middle Ages—Boxer transforms shortfalls of perception into tour de force performances. Drawing on a deepened range of forms (comic set-pieces, verse-plays, dramatic monologues) Skullduggery embraces deception as both theme and tactic. In poem after poem, encounters test the threshold of what’s real and what’s not; turns of phrase appear to say one thing, but really mean another. What is without doubt, however, is that Boxer strengthens his status as one of our most gifted young poets.

Asa Boxer’s first book was The Mechanical Bird (Signal Editions, 2007). Among his awards is the 2004 CBC/enRoute poetry competition, and the 2007 Canadian Author’s Association Poetry Award. He lives in Montreal.

Praise for The Mechanical Bird: Boxer delights in the creative powers of language: he infuses life into every object, he explodes and implodes those objects, he creates alternate histories and secret lives for them, he imbues them with progeny. –ARC Poetry Magazine

There is a panoramic quality to this book, which takes us into the heart of the natural and man-made worlds, offers insights on war and terror, and penetrates the lives of individuals and relationships. –Montreal Review of Books