In Singing, He Composed a Song
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781773852201
Description: "John Stevenson is late for his high school Alternate Education class because he has been at the Health Unit undergoing testing for STDs. When he finally shows up, a series of apparently minor coincidences set the stage for a confrontation with the RCMP that leaves John battered and without cigarettes in a Seclusion Room at the Prince George Regional Hospital. Here, John has time to think about the long arc of violence and drugs that brought him to this point&#x2014;and the future it seems he can only destroy. The story is told through an assemblage of texts, voices, and fragments that include prose, lined poetry, photography, a transcribed interview, an epistle, psychiatric records, literary theory essay fragments, and more."--