How to Swallow a Pig

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Bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories, lush love letters, re-visionary fairy tales, predictions,strange new games, dream transcripts, and a complete handbook of absurdist instructions, including one on the dangerous arts of pig-swallowing. With all the lyricism and wit which have made his columns in NOW magazine and his Dr. Poetry segments on CBCs Wordbeat so entertaining and provocative, this collection gathers for the first time the very best of Robert Priest's short prose. A fabulist in the tradition of Borges and Cortazar, he brings to these postcard pieces the same poignant, and twisted but brilliant sensibility which has made him one of the most entertaining and challenging poets of his generation.

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."..passionate, humourous, worldly-wise, kick-ass poetry grounded in an abusrdist 20th-century pop iconography." --Vancouver Sun
"A truly invigorating combination of rants, raves, and reveries . . . an assured literary intelligence." --Toronto Star

Author Bio

A poet, playwright, beloved childrens author, and songwriter, Robert Priest lives in Toronto where he writes about cultural issues for NOW Magazine.