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Mirror Image
Guernica Editions, Spring 2014
70 pages
Trade Paperback
ISBN13: 9781550718225
ISBN10: 1550718223
English
$5.95 Canada, $5.95 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.
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
Chief among the motifs in Gasparini’s poetry are the disorienting effects of travel, the poetic imagination and external reality.
Marino Tuzi
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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