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A stunning first book from one of the Chinese-Canadian community's most insightful and grippingly honest young voices

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Monks' Fruit _short A stunning first book fromDescription In his debut poetry collection, A. J. Levin presents a world in which the past overlays our modern existence, where classical allusions and philosophical observation are married to slapstick humour and carnival: Plato is a blues singer, Tantalus is a prospector in BC, and Descartes wanders around a Montreal amusement park. Monks' Fruit is above all a work of faith. Redemption lies in humour, imagination, curiosity and knowledge, though not