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Mirror Image
Guernica Editions, Spring 2014
70 pages
Trade Paperback
ISBN13: 9781550718225
ISBN10: 1550718223
English
$12.00 Canada, $12.00 US
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In Mirror Image, Len Gasparini conflates lyrical poetry and prose into one voice, a voice that recalls the rock-and-roll Fifties, and then segues into a woman's dramatic monologue, followed by two maverick poets philosophizing on women and sexuality, and concludes with a narrative tinged with nostalgia and tempered with irony.
When I was thirteen / I spent my summer vacation / hunting suicide knobs / among the acres of wrecks / in my father's automobile graveyard.
Chief among the motifs in Gasparini’s poetry are the disorienting effects of travel, the poetic imagination and external reality.
Marino Tuzi
Len Gasparini’s poetry offers his readers a unique and disturbingly honest glimpse of the world as he has come to know it through travel, love, and loss over the course of a palpably rich and tumultuous life.
Quaderni d’italianistica
Among writers across the country, Len Gasparini is a kind of legend, a man whom people love to tell stories about.
Marty Gervais, The Windsor Star
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