I Will Be Corrupted

Joseph A. Dandurand

Guernica Editions, Fall 2020

128 pages

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771835060

ISBN10: 1771835060

English

$20.00 Canada, $17.95 US, £11.95 UK

I Will Be Corrupted is a collection of poems about a man who suffers from serious depression but is able to appear normal and live somewhat of a normal life. And yet what he sees and experiences in his everyday become poems and an insight into the mind of a kind and gentle person who wants to understand why he is here.

once I sat down and had / tea with a sasquatch / and he said he had seen / all the mountains on earth / and I believed him as / he sipped his tea and stared / off across the valley to the / snow-capped mountains above.

Praise for I Want (2015): [Joseph] Dandurand writes out of deep love and commitment to the land, to his ancestors, to his people, to his kids, who “grow up without abuse.” Hands down, Dandurand is one of my all time favourite writers … Good Lord—what a voice!!!!

Richard van Camp

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