Class Clown

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Winner of the 2018 Trillium Book Award for PoetryMore punk than prog, neither light nor overweight, the verse in Pino Coluccios second book hews to the classic themes of love, death and the passage of time, while presenting a cast of longers and losers whose admirable stubborn pluck is also at times tragic. A collection that above all champions that highest of human art forms: clowning around.Praise forClass Clown[Coluccio] writes short, witty poems about love, death, and the absurdities of modern life. I kept going back to [Class Clown] over and over and over again.CBCsSunday EditionColuccio proves that light verse isnt necessarily lightweight.Toronto StarPraise for Pino ColuccioLike those comedians who reveal painful family secrets for laughs, youll have a hard time catching Pino Coluccio at one of his many rhyming bluffs. With a free-ranging and irreverent mix of high and low, and showing a splendid gift for satire and biting portraiture, Coluccio writes an unflinching, crisply-constructed poetry that wears its sad truths lightlythough they sting no less for it.Carmine Starnino