Synopses & Reviews
Cultural Mischief is a collection of prose poems on the hyperbolic absurdities of multiculturalism in action. Whether digging up the midden under Greg Curnoes house, revisiting Hiroshima, attending a dog breeders show or retelling the history of Quebec from the point of view of its founding nations, the Mohawks and Algonquins, Davey delivers startling vignettes at their funniest and most thoughtful.
This book is delightfullyand deceptivelysimple. It provides the reader at one and the same time the most exquisitely enjoyable bedtime reading, and a wake-up call with a better hit than the best designer espresso.
Review
"Finally, whats left is an irresistible, irrepressible read thats bound to raise eyebrows."
Monday Magazine
Synopsis
A collection of prose poems on the hyperbolic absurdities of multiculturalism in action.
About the Author
Frank DaveyBorn in Vancouver, Frank Davey attended the University of British Columbia where he was a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. In addition, he co-founded the worlds first on-line literary magazine, SwiftCurrent in 1984. Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind it, and the struggles between different identity-based groups in our globalizing societyracial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economicthat drive this play.