Thy holy cities are a wilderness... From honesty about the vagaries of the body's desires to the cults of medieval saints to the streetcars and the Don river, Lafleur's poems probe what it means to be a queer person of faith formed by Toronto - the eternal city's - splendour and cruelty. In erotic, religious, and historical poems, Lafleur draws us back to the closeness of past and present, the compulsion of vocation, and the vast grace of the liturgical year.
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Advance praise for The Magi Come to Toronto
"It is hard to believe in the end of the world in Toronto," writes E.G.N. Lafleur, who flays open the city with verse to expose the intricacies and inner chambers of its crenelated heart. With medieval flair, Lafleur's poems make pilgrimage through space and time, trekking across terrain shaped by faith, doubt, Empire and Nature. The Magi Come to Toronto is a queer altar dedicated to the city's sacred desolations that make and unmake its denizens in erotic majesty.
Adrian Dallas Frandle, author of Book of Extraction: Poems With Teeth
To read The Magi Come To Toronto is to feel it in your body, like kneeling before an altar or lover. E.G.N. Lafleur leads poetry devotees on an intimate pilgrimage through the wet cold of Ontario winter, where city becomes wilderness, memory becomes revelation, and to love is to feast in due season. A truly impressive debut.
Sydney Hegele, author of Bird Suit & The Pump
ISBN: 978-1-964932-98-9
32 pages
Thy holy cities are a wilderness... From honesty about the vagaries of the body's desires to the cults of medieval saints to the streetcars and the Don river, Lafleur's poems probe what it means to be a queer person of faith formed by Toronto - the eternal city's - splendour and cruelty. In erotic, religious, and historical poems, Lafleur draws us back to the closeness of past and present, the compulsion of vocation, and the vast grace of the liturgical year.
.
This title is also available as an eBook HERE
All print orders include the eBook edition
Advance praise for The Magi Come to Toronto
"It is hard to believe in the end of the world in Toronto," writes E.G.N. Lafleur, who flays open the city with verse to expose the intricacies and inner chambers of its crenelated heart. With medieval flair, Lafleur's poems make pilgrimage through space and time, trekking across terrain shaped by faith, doubt, Empire and Nature. The Magi Come to Toronto is a queer altar dedicated to the city's sacred desolations that make and unmake its denizens in erotic majesty.
Adrian Dallas Frandle, author of Book of Extraction: Poems With Teeth
To read The Magi Come To Toronto is to feel it in your body, like kneeling before an altar or lover. E.G.N. Lafleur leads poetry devotees on an intimate pilgrimage through the wet cold of Ontario winter, where city becomes wilderness, memory becomes revelation, and to love is to feast in due season. A truly impressive debut.
Sydney Hegele, author of Bird Suit & The Pump
ISBN: 978-1-964932-98-9
32 pages
