A Few Sharp Sticks (Trade Paper)

“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