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Book SynopsisCompulsively confessional and cracking-wise,
The Nonnets is an utterly unique alchemy of poetry and comedy.
Aaron Giovanonne's latest collection is a book-length sequence of 'nonnets'--nine-line poems that Giovannone handles with ruthless dexterity. Capturing transformations from first dates to goodbye texts, from mama's boy to unrepentant shoplifter, from post-industrial downtown to eleventh-century Italian monastery, these poems present a kaleidoscopic world that careens wildly between despair and ecstasy.
Trade ReviewOften hilarious, always poignant, Aaron Giovannones The Nonnets scoop up handfuls of life and buoy them into air. These poems are to the heart as angel food cake is to the mouth. Larissa Lai, author of When Fox is a Thousand and Automaton Biographies
With the poetic dexterity of a maestro, Aaron Giovannones The Nonnets takes us on a hilarious and unpredictable journey. If these amazing poems dont make you think about how wondrous and doomed we are, if they dont make you laugh and cry, then you are dead inside. Adam Dickinson, author of The Polymers, finalist for the Governor Generals Literary Award for Poetry and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Theres a marvellousness in every single one of Aaron Giovannones magic nonnets: exquisite, surprising, crystalline bursts of light. The Nonnets is a book of the marvellousits beauty and intelligence astound me. Jake Kennedy, winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and author of Apollinaires Speech to the War Medic and Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play
