Lapsed WASP

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By (author): Victor Coleman

Victor Coleman is one of Canada’s best-known poets. Born in 1944 in Toronto, he has published many collections of poetry and has been active as an editor (especially with Coach House Press), a curator, and in general as an active force in all the arts. Lapsed W.A.S.P. collects more than a decade of Coleman’s work, including much that appeared in small editions, a process which has been a central part of his aesthetic stance. This is poetry that brings the body and the intelligence memorably together and challenges a reader.

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Victor Coleman

Victor Coleman lives and works in Toronto. His last four books were published by BookThug. He has recently taught courses in modern and postmodern literature at Toronto New School of Writing, and leads an ongoing Writers Workshop at The Coach House Press that is open to anyone interested in “progressive” writing and thinking. He is currently working on a memoir, a history of small press publishing in English Canada (1940-1990), and a new book of Oulipian texts called Miserable Singers.