Product Description

Contemporary Canadian poetry got you down? Well, we'd like to prescribe a little Hello Serotonin, the latest in mood-enhancing poetry anti-depressants. This new book of poems from Jon Paul Fiorentino operates within the constraints of what he terms 'synaptic syntax' – poetry that performs the very nature of neuronal activity from the point of view of a mood-enhanced Human Comedy, which, with a quick turn of phrase, or missing neurotransmitter, could become Human Tragedy. Filled with a witty, self-deprecating and often Andy Kaufmanesque sense of humour, Hello Serotonin is today's generation of pharmaceutical poetry, and will alter your perception of therapeutic poetics. Get your prescription filled today!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1200982 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .32" h x 5.32" w x 8.74" l, .39 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Robert Kroetsch
'Fiorentino combines the quick, nervous, neurotic energy of the high urban now with the ancient tradition of the world as hospital. He inhabits a place and a language in which the poet is both patient and radical therapist. Hello Serotonin is an exhilarating and magical potion. Take at night before going to bed.'

About the Author

Jon Paul Fiorentino is a poet, essayist and editor. His previous poetry collections include Resume Drowning (Broken Jaw Press) and the Carol Shields Award–nominated Transcona Fragments (Cyclops Press). His current editorial projects are the anthologies Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (DC Books, 2003) and the forthcoming Post-Prairie. He is currently working as an editor for Matrix magazine. He lives in Montreal.