Night Became Years
By (Author) Jason Stefanik
Coach House Books
Coach House Books
15th May 2018
Canada
General
Fiction
811.6
Paperback
88
Width 127mm, Height 209mm
Night Became Years is poetry in the sauntering tradition of the flneur. Stefanik loafers his way over sacred geography and explores his own mixed heritage through the lexicon of Elizabethan canting language. Comparing the terminology of fifteenth-century English beggar vernacular with a contemporary Canadian inner-city worldview, the poems in Night Became Years unfold as separate entities while at the same time forming a larger narrative on the possibilities of poetry today and the nature of mixed-blood identity.
Jason Stefanik proudly resides in Winnipeg's gritty North End. A poet, publisher, and propagandist, he is a second generation adoptee, of mixed and mysterious background.