Did you see the Globe & Mail article on Fiorentino
here?
Interestingly, The Theory of the Loser Class is Fiorentino's least accessible poetic work to date. His _style_ has moved further and further to the abstract end of the spectrum with each of his collections, but so far, the general reader willing to do a little work has always been allowed into his self-interrogations. Though still often playing the smartass, Fiorentino has until now spoken as a relatively humble fellow member of a larger population reliant on pharmaceuticals and mass culture to numb itself against the friction of social intercourse. Now, however, he's "tak[ing] the piss with Von Humboldt . . . exert[ing] shun tactics, dark leisure, snob method."Pretty ambivalent about it.
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