Model Disciple (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781550654394)

A mesmerizing and moving first collection, Model Disciple gives us a poetry of two minds. Confounded by Japanese-Canadian legacies too painful to fully embrace, Michael Prior's split speakers struggle to understand themselves as they submit to their reinvention: "I am all that is wrong with the Old World, / and half of what troubles the New." Prior emerges as a poet not of identity, but identities. Invented identities, double identities, provisional identities--his art always bearing witness to a sense of self held long enough to shed at a moment's notice. Model Disciple's Ovidean shape-shifting is driven by formal mastery and mot juste precision. It's also one of the most commanding poetic debuts in years.

Author: Michael Prior
ISBN-10: 155065439X
ISBN-13: 9781550654394
Publisher: Signal Editions
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2016
Pages: 78
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30d