Pure Product Jason Guriel
Poetry
Poems that celebrate the purity of complicated feelings.
In his second book of poems, Jason Guriel cuts a dazzling figure—whipsmart,charismatic, with a mischievousness always eager to play for more serious stakes. Guriel’s way of seeing the world is low-key and sly: he shows us the big picture by enumerating all the small ones. Although a zealous celebrator of ordinariness, his tightly turned lines have the courage of their own spiky oddity.
The poems in Pure Product celebrate the purity of complicated feelings distilled to crisp expression, a pure poetry true to the impurities of life.
Jason Guriel, author of the poetry collection, Technicolored (Exile, 2006), is widely published in American, British, and Canadian magazines. He received the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry Magazine, and his work was anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope, 2008).
Advance Praise for Pure Product:
"Like violinist Jascha Heifetz in his Decca recordings, Jason Guriel transforms 'trifles'—the everyday subjects of his compact poems—into works of deftly distilled perfection, or at least into poems that are only a 'wand away / from perfection.' Guriel gives board games, Coke cans, phonebooks, flipbooks, one night stands, and chain link fences such loving attention that many of these poems can stand up to repeated playings, like favourite singles." —Steven Heighton
"Jason Guriel’s daring kinesthetic apprehension of life and his unabashed appreciation of complexity make Pure Product a welcome addition to our poetry today. Guriel is a protean observer, a pure noticer, and a leader in his generation of writers—not only because he can make a sonnet look casually impeccable, but because he guides us to heartrending truths." —Molly Peacock
ISBN: 978-1-55065-254-3