A Few Sharp Sticks (pdf ebook)

“This novel/this poem/this manifesto/this encyclopedia/this essay/this inkblot/this memoir is the latest installment in Brian Dedora’s increasingly audacious ­experiments in narrative. Unflinchingly, he explores the possibilities of a gay ­perspective while exploding the assumptions of a straight alphabet.’” — STUART ROSS, author of Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew // “...here are twenty-six sharp sticks, riffs on sentences from a law book on voluntary associations...direct or oblique, sometimes delicate sometimes painful but always delicious...A Few Sharp Sticks rewards careful reading with unanticipated pleasures, and teaches us something of how to lead our lives, how to feel, how to think.” — PETER QUARTERMAIN, Emeritus Professor of English, UBC // BRIAN DEDORA’s most recent book, A Slice of Voice at the Edge of Hearing, was shortlisted for the Relit Award for Best Novel, and the George Ryga Prize. He lives in Toronto.