The Mechanics of Submission is poet Phil Tabakow’s visionary guidebook to middle class North American life. Sometimes dark as their rust-belt settings, these are poems with a scouring, ruthless humour, courtesy of a muse with attitude that won’t be trained. Examine these as small exploding diagrams, graphing the boundaries between the self and the world, behind which lie our deepest fears and desires.
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Tabakow’s phrasing is so original, the English language leaps up and cheers! -- James Bertolino, author of Snail River and Pocket Animals
Tabakow’s poems are wild, witty, and darkly funny, and for all their rhetorical skill have a real lyrical lilt. -- Robert Allen
The depths of this man’s humanity is shockingly displayed in the playful and deadly seriousness of this necessary book. -- Bin Ramke
Tabakow’s poems are wild, witty, and darkly funny, and for all their rhetorical skill have a real lyrical lilt. -- Robert Allen
The depths of this man’s humanity is shockingly displayed in the playful and deadly seriousness of this necessary book. -- Bin Ramke
About the Author
An ex-factory worker himself, present-day professor, Phil Tabakow lives near Boston. He has written about contemporary English Language Poetry in Quebec, about the contrasting styles of Canadian and American Landscape Poetry, and about individual Canadian writers such as F. R. Scott and Douglas Glover. He is a member of the Canadian Studies Council at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts where he teaches creative writing as well as 20th century Canadian and American Literature.
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