Joe Rosenblatt celebrates his own oblique and surreal connection to reality on every page of his marvelous new book
Joe Rosenblatt was one of the most disturbing and exciting voices in new Canadian poetry when Toronto’s pioneering Coach House press published his The LSD Leacock in 1966.
Bite Me is a book of poetry and prose that explores the author’s obsessions with undersea life forms birds, flesh-eating flowers, and cats as serial killers. His sure, steady authorial voice and his courageous willingness to look into the luminous darkness at the centre of the human heart make this difficult material into a compelling beauty.
In a perceptive 2015 essay on Rosenblatt, George Bowering says that his friend Rosenblatt was “mentored” by Al Purdy, Milton Acorn, and Earle Birney but places the word inside scare quotes, indicating his implicit judgment that Rosenblatt does not have the same relationship to reality as the three supposed mentors. Rosenblatt, Bowering says, once wrote “The very idea of reality gives me the hives.
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