A Current Through the Flesh by Sitoski, Richard-Yves

A Current Through the Flesh (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781553807360)

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Format: Paperback
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A Current Through the Flesh by Sitoski, Richard-Yves

A Current Through the Flesh

$18.95
A Current Through the Flesh by Sitoski, Richard-Yves

A Current Through the Flesh

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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A poetry collection that weaves family history into an abrasive cloth, tailored into the full regalia, pre-moth-eaten and torn, of everyday life. With dry and unflinching humour, Richard-Yves traces traumas back four generations and across families to reveal the flimsiness of male self-images, the perils of silence and the latent power of women oppressed by toxic beliefs. His poetry surprises and unsettles with haunting images like empty hands that always seem to hold a hammer and sharp knives that are invisible in soapy water. As a spoken-word artist, Richard-Yves' infuses his words with pulse and rhythm creating evocative snapshots: a father as a derelict house, love like the last trip to the vet. But he tackles the dark side of domestic life with compassion, honesty and a tinge of bewilderment: " Sometimes love / is a thing you catch with bare hands, carefully, / so as not to crush it.

Author: Richard-Yves Sitoski
ISBN-10: 1553807367
ISBN-13: 9781553807360
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 122
Format: Paperback
By Richard-Yves Sitoski
By Richard-Yves Sitoski
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Richard-Yves Sitoski is a poet, songwriter and performance artist. He was the 2019-2023 Poet Laureate of Owen Sound, Ontario, on treaty territory 451/2, on the lands of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. His poems and reviews have appeared in literary magazines including PRISM, The Antigonish Review, Arc, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Train, CAROUSEL, Pinhole Poetry, Watch Your Head, The Windsor Review, and QWERTY. He is co-editor of Poems in Response to Peril: An Anthology in Support of Ukraine (profits from which went to displaced Ukrainian cultural workers). He is the author of the chapbook How to Be Human and the full-length collection Wait, What?. His one-person musical theatre piece, Butterfly Tongue, has played to sold-out houses. He is the Artistic Director of the Words Aloud Poetry Series and serves as Marketing and Publication Coordinator at Kegedonce Press.

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