Monks' Fruit Product Form:Paperback / softback A ’90s-era Southern Ontario Gothic

A ’90s-era Southern Ontario Gothic about holding on to the dead

–Emily Austin

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These poems explore on a deeper level what it is to be Saanich

Susan Manchester poems are successful in the sense that they never fail to achieve their objectives

Monks' Fruit Product Form:Paperback / softback A ’90s-era Southern Ontario GothicDescription In his debut poetry collection, A. J. Levin presents a world in which the past overlays our modern existence, where classical allusions and philosophical observation are married to slapstick humour and carnival: Plato is a blues singer, Tantalus is a prospector in BC, and Descartes wanders around a Montreal amusement park. Monks' Fruit is above all a work of faith. Redemption lies in humour, imagination, curiosity and knowledge, though not