Poetry. In the poems of HELLO SEROTONIN, Jon Paul Fiorentino operates within the constraints of what he terms 'synaptic syntax'--poetry that performs the very nature of neuronal activity from the point of view of a mood-enhanced Human Comedy, which, with a quick turn of phrase, or missing neurotransmitter, could become Human Tragedy. "Fiorentino combines the quick, nervous, neurotic energy of the high urban now with the ancient tradition of the world as hospital. He inhabits a place and a language in which the poet is both patient and radical therapist. Hello Serotonin is an exhilarating and magical potion. Take at night before going to bed"--Robert Kroetsch.

Author City: MONTREAL, QC CAN

Jon Paul Fiorentino is the author of the novel Stripmalling, which was shortlisted for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and three poetry collections, including THE THEORY OF THE LOSER CLASS, which was shortlisted for the A. M. Klein Prize. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches writing at Concordia University, edits Matrix magazine and runs Snare Books.