His books include Burning the Evidence Sucker’s Paradise ROXY Sexy Devils Everybody Knows the Dice are Loaded This Troubled Heart Still a Party Tonight, You’re Coming Home with Us, and his poems have appeared in numerous national and international literary journals, magazines such as The New Laurel Review, Trumpet, The Poetry Box, Verse on the Vine, Lummox Press, Sacramento Voices, Red Fez, and on cocktail napkins everywhere. He has read from Jack Kerouac's On the Road to the accompaniment of famed musician, David Amram, performed at the infamous Bukowski Festival in Long Beach, CA, been featured in Portland, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York City, New Orleans, Paris, beaches, barrooms and back alleys. Todd is widely recognized for his performances. He is sought after as an editor and performer and has worked on numerous collections for poets and writers.
Swells Press and one of the originators of the After-Hours Poetry movement. Jonathan teaches creative writing at the National Theatre School of Canada. In March 2016 his theatrical adaptation of the novel Cockroach by Rawi Hage will premiere in Calgary at Alberta Theatre Projects. His memoir Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide, was published to critical acclaim in five countries. His award winning non-fiction has appeared in Walrus, Tablet, PEN International, 18 Bridges and the Globe and Mail, as well as Cabin Fever: An Anthology of the Best New Canadian Non-Fiction. His plays have been produced across Canada and Germany and include The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret, and the 2011 Governor General's nominated House of Many Tongues. He is the author of the book of poetry Glass Psalms. His genre-bending work bridges the personal and the political, and is often inspired by his travels to far-flung, dangerous places, with an eye toward the humourous and absurd. Jonathan is an award-winning poet, playwright and prose writer. Today's book of poetry could not get enough of it. Jonathan Garfinkel's Bociany (Storks) went down like untapped spring water directly from the source. We also bought some cider and cheese, those Benedictine's are industrious. Nothing like a little perspective to help set the mind straight. We were lucky enough to hear some of this beautiful chanting. We visited the Abbaye De Saint-Beniot-Du-Lac where a cluster of Benedictine monks live in silence but sing during their services. Today's book of poetry apologizes for our recent absence from the scene, we were filling up our tanks in Quebec. We loved Bociany (Storks), what can we say? The only fault was its brevity, we wanted more and more and more. The morning reading was followed by several orders for jet-black coffee as the peons scurried back to their poetry-hidey-holes.Īll humour aside, Today's book of poetry is a new convert, we're in for every word Garfinkel cares to utter. Everyone is here, except Milo, but few are vocal. It's Sunday morning and the Today's book of poetry offices are a tad quieter than usual. His poems are finely crafted, wheels inside wheels, all in perfect motion, one concentrated motion, every elaboration fitted precisely, every essential puzzle piece dropping into place as though nature intended it. We think in another life he may have been a watchmaker.
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Today's book of poetry came away from Bociany (Storks) full of admiration for Jonathan Garfinkel. I think of Forest Hill, tree-lined streets. These poems are built of strong, solid stuff. Just to be clear, Today's book of poetry is convinced Bociany (Storks) is a remarkable publication. Jonathan Garfinkel takes us all over the world with his traveller's knowledge, with his knowing he reaches for the sky, every bird wants to eventually soar, but Garfinkel remains grounded every time out. Today's book of poetry sees little but gold in Bociany (Storks). The storks are a good omen in Polish folklore and Garfinkel uses them and others flights of fancy as he is looking for silver linings when he looks to the cloudy sky.
Garfinkel's study is a poem that takes the same imaginative leaps of faith as Charlie Parker, he gives these poems wings. But Today's book of poetry couldn't help but think of the Charlie Parker song/anthem/call to prayer "Ornithology" and all of the flying it has inspired. One of the short gems from this golden jewel is titled "Ornithology." Ornithology is the study of birds and Garfinkel flights his poems with plenty of aviators.
And I bet he has it in his plays as well. Jonathan Garfinkel has that thing, we all want to see it in a poem, magic. Is a smart and tidy looking book, contrary to our photo.īociany - Przylecialy "the storks have arrived" Polish folklore.
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