Carmine Starnino is a

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, educator and editor.

Biography

He was born in 1970 in

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, into an

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heritage. His first poetry collection ''The New World'' (1997) was nominated for the 1997 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the 1997

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. His second collection ''Credo'' (2000) won the 2001 Canadian Authors Associate Prize for Poetry and the 2001 David McKeen Award for Poetry. He has also written ''A Lover's Quarrel'' (2004), a book of essays on

poetry, and ''With English Subtitles'' (2004), a third collection of poems, which won a Bressani Award and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Starnino's fourth collection, ''This Way Out'' (2009), was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award in Poetry and, again, won the A.M. Klein prize. Starnino went on to publish ''Lazy Bastardism'' (2012), a collection of essays and reviews, and ''Leviathan'' (2016) a book of poems. His most recent book, published in 2020, ''Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016,'' was awarded the inaugural Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Poetry Award, and was praised by the jury for having "expanded the English language by bringing Italian words into its matrix." He is the editor of Signal Editions, the poetry imprint of Montreal-based Véhicule Press, and was formerly Editor-in-Chief of '' Maisonneuve'' and Senior Editor of '' Reader's Digest Canada''. Starnino left his post as Deputy Editor of ''

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'' in 2019 to move back to Montreal, and now serves as the magazine's Editor-at-Large Starnino is well known for the provocative nature of his criticism and pointedness of his opinions, which have incited a variety of heated counter-criticisms from other poets and critiques.

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''The New World.'' Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. * ''Credo.'' Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. * ''With English Subtitles.'' Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2004. * ''This Way Out.'' Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2009. * ''Leviathan.'' Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2016. * ''Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016.'' Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2020.

Essays

*''A Lover's Quarrel.'' Erin, Ont.: Porcupine's Quill, 2004. *''Lazy Bastardism.'' Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2012.

As editor

* ''David Solway: Essays on His Works.'' Toronto:

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, 2001. * ''The New Canon.'' Montreal:

Véhicule Press The Vehicule Poets was a collective formed in Montreal in the 1970s by poets Endre Farkas, Artie Gold, Tom Konyves, Claudia Lapp, John McAuley, Stephen Morrissey and Ken Norris, who shared an interest in experimental American poetry and Europea ...

, 2005. * ''John Glassco and the Other Montreal.'' Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2011. * ''The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012.'' Toronto:

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, 2012. * ''The Essential Charles Bruce''. Erin Mills: The Porcupine's Quill, 2018.

References

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