Carmine Starnino is a

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and

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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

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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

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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 for Poetry and, again, won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. 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

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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 currently serves as the magazine's Editor-in-Chief. 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.:

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, 2004. * ''This Way Out.'' Kentville, N.S.:

, 2009. * ''Leviathan.'' Kentville, N.S.:

, 2016. * ''Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016.'' Kentville, N.S.:

, 2020.

Essays

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

, 2012.

As editor

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

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

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, 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:

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, 2018.

References

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