All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been (Paperback)

Joe Fiorito

ISBN 10: 1550655469 / ISBN 13: 9781550655469

Published by Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2020

Paperback. All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been, Joe Fioritos second collection, establishes him as the preeminent chronicler of people in extremis. Drawing on the precison and unsentimentality that have become hallmarks of his poetry, Fiorito creates uncompromising mini-narratives about addiction, failed rehabs, incarceration, demeaning jobs, and homelessness; much of it derived from nearly two decades spent as a newspaper columnist covering daily life on Torontos streets. In poem after poem, Fioritos exact word choices, cold-eyed details, and crisp internal rhymes mete out moments both beautiful and harrowing: her little finger curls a bit/she cut a tendon when she slit/ her wrist; shed clenched/ her fist. "Signal Editions editor: Carmine Starnino"--Title page verso. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781550655469

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All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been, Joe Fiorito’s second collection, establishes him as the preeminent chronicler of people in extremis. Drawing on the precison and unsentimentality that have become hallmarks of his poetry, Fiorito creates uncompromising mini-narratives about addiction, failed rehabs, incarceration, demeaning jobs, and homelessness; much of it derived from nearly two decades spent as a newspaper columnist covering daily life on Toronto’s streets. In poem after poem, Fiorito’s exact word choices, cold-eyed details, and crisp internal rhymes mete out moments both beautiful and harrowing: “her little finger curls a bit/she cut a tendon when she slit/ her wrist; she’d clenched/ her fist.”

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Title: All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been (...
Publisher: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new