Poetry. Few ideas today are as charged or subject to as many contradictory inflections as is nature. To anchor its compositional investigations into its own material, Mark Truscott's NATURE considers the difficulties of this overdetermined concept and asks—without recourse to nostalgia, sanctimony, or moralism—what kind of space it might meaningfully create or occupy.
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.