Poetry. Welcome to the poetic landscape of Mark Truscott, where less is more than you bargained for. SAID LIKE REEDS OR THINGS is a book of micropoetic and linguistic koans. With a quirky, off-centre sense of humour, these poems uncover a language that has malfunctioned only to find itself in the form of a gesture. Mysteriously entertaining and precise, these succinct, visual lyrics say as much about the world as they do about their own stats as objects for reading, and they persist in the hilarity and contemplation of their own enigmatic possibilities.

Author City: TORONTO, ON CAN

Mark Truscott's first book, SAID LIKE REEDS OR THINGS (Coach House Books, 2004), was shortlisted for a ReLit Award and received an Alcuin citation for Darren Wershler-Henry's design. Mark lives with his family in Toronto, where he curates the Test Reading Series. His newest book, NATURE, was published by Book Thug in 2010.

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http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2004/12/it-was-20-years-ago-next-summer-that.html