Croak

(Paperback)

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Sampirisi is keen to collaborate with other artists (musicians, dancers) for promotional videos and media to support the book.

Book has appeal both to those with an interest in sustainable environment and endangered species and to those interested in pop culture (with references to Kermit, Michigan J. Frog, Aristophanes's Frogs.

Sampirisi is an up-and-coming poet who has established ties to many American and Canadian poets through her work with the publisher BookThug, and with the new Toronto New School of Writing's workshops and events. She's rapidly building a name for herself within the North American poetry community.

Reviews

'As invigorating and idiosyncratic a collection as this reviewer has encountered in some time. A must-read.' -- Seth Abramson, Huffington Post 'I haven't read a book of poetry as tonally sly (strange), and as formally surprising -- in that it never levels off into a settled shape, though the voicing is always grounded in ongoing immediacy -- as Jenny Sampirisi's Croak in a long time. The world this writing performs takes deformation as a kind of functional and nonetheless staged condition its characters give off and exploit, emotional intelligence streaming beneath the action with a perfectly measured balance of humour and consequence.' -- Anselm Berrigan, author of Free Cell and Notes From Irrelevance

Author Bio

Jenny Sampirisi is the Managing Editor of BookThug and co-director of the Toronto New School of Writing. She is the author of the novel is/was (Insomniac 2008). Croak is her first book of poetry. She lives in Toronto.