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for
    one with the strength of many
    ways of both ways – Nichol’s heart
    can be ours. H as a door to many
    people before profit.
    Listen, it’s a healthy nostalgia if it owns you
    or at least not the worst thing ever if you are
    one with the strength of many
    people before profit.

DEDICATIONS

    â€˜Summary: Cultural Hegemony’ is for kevin mcpherson eckhoff.
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    â€˜Summary: The History of Sexuality’ is for Susan Holbrook.
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    â€˜Blurbists’ is for Darren Bifford.
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    â€˜Hey, Carol Maker’ is for Christian Bök.
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    â€˜Moda’ is for Elizabeth Bachinsky.
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    â€˜Tenants’ is for David McGimpsey.
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    â€˜Salter Street Strike’ is for John K. Samson.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Thanks to Evan Munday, Alana Wilcox, Susan Holbrook,
     Jeramy Dodds and everyone at Coach House Books. Thanks to
     David McGimpsey, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Maryanna Hardy,
     Tara Flanagan, Heather Stewart, Jacob Spector, Julie Mannell,
     Ian Orti, Darren Bifford, Mike Spry, Sina Queyras, Nicole
     Brossard, Tyler Morency, Jess Marcotte, Emma Healey,
     Genevieve Robichaud and my parents.
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    Special thanks to my writing teachers.
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    Very special thanks to Lilly Fiorentino.

NOTES

    The text from ‘Winnipeg Cold Storage Company’ is appropriated and manipulated (with the most love) from
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
by Judith Butler.
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    Some of the text from
Tautnotes
is appropriated and anagrammed for satiric purposes (and with the most love) from the following texts, their titles and authors, in order of appearance:
    De Profundis
by Oscar Wilde
    Mythologies
by Roland Barthes
    The Pleasures of Hating
by William Hazlitt
    Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
by Judith Butler
    Seed Catalogue
by Robert Kroetsch
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    The text from ‘Rubric for the Evaluations of Poetry, Dedicated to Ms. Castro’s Sixth Grade Poetry Students at Mater Academy Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida’ is appropriated and rearranged from a rubric for the evaluation of poetry, prepared by Ms. Castro for students and teachers at Mater Academy Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida.
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    â€˜The Report Cards of Leslie Mackie’ is a narrative sequence of visual poems that sets out to critique the culture of homophobia, transphobia and bullying in early childhood education.
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    â€˜Moda’ uses the slogans for Expo ’67 as its refrains. ‘Concordia’ uses the mottos for the city of Montreal and the town of Mont-Royal as its refrains. ‘Bystander’ uses the mottos for the city of Toronto and the town of Burlington as its refrains. ‘Salter Street Strike’ uses the mottos for the city of Winnipeg and the community of the North End as its refrains.
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    Earlier versions of some of these poems have been published in the following journals:
EVENT
,
PRISM International
,
Hobo
,
Joyland
,
The Winnipeg Review
, Lemon Hound,
subTerrain
,
Contemporary Verse 2
,
The Toronto Quarterly
and
New American Writing
.

About the Author
    Jon Paul Fiorentino is the author of the novel
Stripmalling
, which was shortlisted for the Paragraphe Hugh Maclennan Prize for Fiction, and five previous poetry collections, including
The Theory of the Loser Class
, which was shortlisted for the A. M. Klein Prize. His most recent poetry collection,
Indexical Elegies
, won the 2010 CBC Book Club ‘Bookie’ Award for Best Book of Poetry. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches writing at Concordia University and edits
Matrix
magazine.

This ePUB edition produced at the Coach House on bpNichol Lane.
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    The print edition is typeset in Albertan and printed in August 2013 at the old Coach House on bpNichol Lane in Toronto, Ontario, on Zephyr Antique Laid paper, which was manufactured, acid-free, in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, from second-growth forests. This book was printed with vegetable-based ink on a 1965 Heidelberg KORD