An ABC of Belly Work

By Peter Richardson

Peter Richardson's debut, A Tinkers' Picnic, introduced a new variety of tough talk to Canadian poetry with poems that, in their force-of-nature irrepressibility and verbal derring-do, typified nothing less than their own one-of-a-kind verve. With An ABC of Belly Work, Richardson has written another book of tall-tale, outsized poems full of aggressive banter and oddball colloquialisms. What sets Richardson apart, however isn't so much the way he frisks his poetry with free-wheeling and unpredictable touches, but the sincere fervency he brings to his concerns. Beneath all the enjoyable hamming-up, this inventive and irreverent second collection is rife with immensely moving conjectures on fatherhood, death and love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550651811
• ISBN13: 9781550651812
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Vehicule Press
• Length: 73 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"