This novel/this poem/this manifesto/this encyclopedia/this essay/this inkblot/ this memoir is the latest installment in Brian Dedora's increasingly audacious experiments in narrative. Unflinchingly, he explores the possibilities of a gay perspective while exploding the assumptions of a straight alphabet. A Few Sharp Sticks will be a different book for every reader...'" - STUART ROSS, author of Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew ..".here are twenty-six sharp sticks, riffs on sentences from a law book on voluntary associations, each begetting its (lower-case) companion, together generating a loose set of not-quite-voluntary associations, little time-bombs... Brian Dedora has crafted a genuine contribution not just to the body (and mind!) of Gay writing, but to Canadian writing and indeed to writing itself. A Few Sharp Sticks teaches us something of how to lead our lives, how to feel, how to think." - PETER QUARTERMAIN, Emeritus Professor of English
With WK in the Workshop is Dedora’s elegy to artist Willam Kurelek, with whom Dedora worked closely for several years at the Isaacs Gallery. This is the story of a friendship between two artists: Dedora, the writer, Kurelek, the painter. With WK in the Workshop includes telling anecdote, informed commentary on some of Kurelek’s paintings, and shows another side of Kurelek, as craftsman, painter, and framer, and demonstrates how traditional hand crafting and gilding of frames was integral to Kurelek’s art.
White Light is a fine example of how language rethinks itself and leads to the profound realization that it functions at many different levels. Dedora’s writing moves not only beyond what some people see as fashion, but beyond the day to day, where ‘...in that sphere phrases and lines ring out untouched yet not unconnected to the daily press...’"— Lola Lemire Tostevin "A profound meditation on the origins of awareness of thought in a single consciousness. White Light lies outside genre precisely because it seeks to deal with an awareness that comes before writing, while acknowledging the inherent contradiction in writing that down. A moving and eloquent work."— bpNichol
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