Model Disciple

By Michael Prior and Michael Prior

A mesmerizing and moving first collection, Model Disciple gives us a poetry of two minds. Confounded by Japanese-Canadian legacies too painful to fully embrace, Michael Prior's split speakers struggle to understand themselves as they submit to their reinvention: "I am all that is wrong with the Old World, / and half of what troubles the New." Prior emerges as a poet not of identity, but identities. Invented identities, double identities, provisional identities--his art always bearing witness to a sense of self held long enough to shed at a moment's notice. Model Disciple's Ovidean shape-shifting is driven by formal mastery and mot juste precision. It's also one of the most commanding poetic debuts in years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155065439X
• ISBN13: 9781550654394
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Signal Editions
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.3"