Everything You Hold Dear

Brilliant lunatic assemblage. Today s Book of Poetry on Cut-up ApologeticFrom 2007 to 2016, Jamie Sharpe led an itinerant life, throughout British Columbia and the Yukon, in Sechelt, Prince George, Dawson, Salmon Arm, Whitehorse, Galiano, and Texada Island. When family life solidified around a sedentary existence, old scattershot suggested new targets By way of time s amnesia, we ve almost lost Sharpe entirely; only a few of his worm-eaten books remain in the musty libraries of literary perverts. The great record of Canadian literature is a list of prestigious -ists and -isms (the Realists gave way to Naturalists, replaced by Symbolists, affronted by Dadaism, bled into Surrealism, birthing the Post-Absurdist-Nouveau Roman ). Some authors are so diverse we struggle to contain them with a name. Here s hoping we can drag the ever-distinct Sharpe, against his will, without proper receptacle, into the future for a few years more. (The