Class Clown

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Lyric poetry that is light without being frivolous, for people who are more punk than prog. This is poetry that doesn't try too hard to be important, instead reveling in its utter lack of importance and celebrating man's right to clown aroundoften his only defense against a cruelly stacked deck.

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Winner of the 2018 Trillium Book Award for Poetry

Praise for Class Clown

[Coluccio] writes short, witty poems about love, death, and the absurdities of modern life.... I kept going back to [Class Clown] over and over and over again. --CBC's Sunday Edition

Coluccio proves that light verse isn't necessarily lightweight." --Toronto Star Praise for Pino Coluccio

Like those comedians who reveal painful family secrets for laughs, you'll have a hard time catching Pino Coluccio at one of his many rhyming bluffs. With a free-ranging and irreverent mix of high and low, and showing a splendid gift for satire and biting portraiture, Coluccio writes an unflinching, crisply-constructed poetry that wears its sad truths lightly--though they sting no less for it. --Carmine Starnino

Author Bio

Pino Coluccio's poems have appeared in The Walrus and three anthologies. His first collection, First Comes Love, came out in 2005 to generally favourable reviews. In addition to writing, and his day job (about which the less said the better), he runs a multi-hundred dollar tutoring empire and co-edits The Rotary Dial. He lives in the 6ix.