Poetry. 22 SKIDOO takes as its playground the junkyard of Modernity. In a contemporary world which discards memory and experience along with last season's shoes, any building over 25 years old, and millions of tons of last year's computers and cell phones, these poems recycle archeologically recovered materials into a funny, lively exploration of the possibilities of creation in a world where the young think that what Duke Ellington made wasn't really music. If 22 SKIDOO reclaims the junk of modern culture, finding for it new forms and arrangements, SUBTRACTIONS kicks the props from under the elaborate illusion of completion that ironically locates a world without history. This is a two-volume book, with the two volumes bound back-to-back. 22 SKIDOO is the winner of the 2009 Friggin Prize.

Author City: Toronto, ON CAN

Born and raised in Riverside, California, Michael Boughn moved to Canada in 1966 because of his opposition to the war against Viet Nam. In Vancouver he met and studied with Robin Blaser who introduced him to the work of William Blake, Charles Olson, H.D., Jack Spicer, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and other crucial writers. He spent nearly 10 years working in the Teamsters before returning to school to study with Robert Creeley and Jack Clarke in Buffalo, N.Y. where he received his PhD in 1986. Since 1993 he has lived in Toronto. He is the author of Iterations of the Diagonal, DISLOCATIONS IN CRYSTAL, Into the World of the Dead, One's own Mind, 22 SKIDOO/SUBTRACTIONS, and COSMOGRAPHIA: A POST-LUCRECIAN FAUX MICRO-EPIC. With Victor Coleman, he edited Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book for the University of California Press. His detective novel, Business As Usual, is forthcoming.

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