I enjoyed this, Paul. Why is it that you are scarier in print than you are in person? In this case, I think it's the brief, aphoristic quality of the sentences. It remains an open question in other cases.
Paul Vermeersch's latest collection of poems, The Reinvention of the Human Hand, was published by McClelland & Stewart in March 2010 and was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. He is also the author of the poetry collections Burn (ECW Press, 2000), a finalist for the 2001 Gerald Lampert Award, The Fat Kid (ECW Press, 2002), and Between the Walls (McClelland & Stewart, 2005). He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph, and his poems have been translated into Polish, German and French. He is the also the editor of The Al Purdy A-frame Anthology, published in fall 2009 by Harbour Publishing. He lives in Toronto where he currently teaches at Sheridan College. He was, for ten years, the Poetry Editor for Insomniac Press and is now Senior Editor for Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd.
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I enjoyed this, Paul. Why is it that you are scarier in print than you are in person? In this case, I think it's the brief, aphoristic quality of the sentences. It remains an open question in other cases.
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