“Nunt makes Fight
Club look like Three Little Bunnies
... these verses have something to mortally offend
everyone who reads them. I devoured them in one
sitting (before they devoured me), struck again
and again by their tireless and imaginative violence
- passion, really. Tourette wrenches tormented,
nihilistic and surreally brutal feelings out of
the pornographic and into the poetic. Like drinking
yourself sober, there’s virtue in the excess.”
Daniel Richler
“Mingus Tourette may be the most
exhilarating voice to emerge on the Canadian
poetry scene in decades.”
Misty Harris, CanWest News - The Edmonton
Journal, The Calgary Herald
“[a]s hard to put down as a glass of whiskey
spiked with acid.”
The New Haven Advocate
“[b]rutally powerful…”
The Link
“[t]he book is part shock poetry
and part insanity, but all genius.”
The Manitoban
“Charles Bukowski, William S.
Burroughs… Mingus Tourette? High praise,
but Tourette belongs in this company. And when
the time comes, I want a seat at their table in
Hell.”
NEXUS
“It’s been a long time since
I read a book that I became emotionally involved
in. I fell in love with this one. It violated,
desecrated, and exhausted me, but left me wanting
more.”
The Navigator
“Mingus Tourette is a fascinating
writer. Even if you can't tolerate the revulsion
this book causes, you probably won't be able to
put it down. ”
Imprint
"He is either insane or brilliant. In my
own humble opinion, and in the best of circumstances,
he’s both.”
The Brandon Quill
“His writing is passionate and driven, sometimes
so gritty and down to earth, that you can taste
the earthworms.”
The Edmonton Journal
Is it possible for a Canadian to be an enfant
terrible? Looks like.
The Iconoclast
“Ed’s favourite iconoclast…”
Ed Magazine
“I admired the guy’s juice, his devotion to the craft, the whiffs
of Bukowksi and insanity in the poetry prose.”
The Edmonton Journal
“[I] really liked your story, a profane, nightmarish tale whose narrator
travels to Cambodia and blows up a barn, then a cow, with hand grenades. It
was written with economy and momentum and a raw, poetic grace, and had this
compressed Apocalypse Now vibe that invoked Latin and satori, the Buddhist
notion of sudden enlightenment … still sticks in my guts after several
months”
The Edmonton Journal, Shawn Ohler, Culture Editor
on Nunto 35
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If you have not already acquired a copy of Nunt,
kiddies, I entreat you to. I was repelled, amused,
and deeply moved in the space of three pages - I
had to finish it the night I bought it. There are
images and turns of phrase that will resound in
the drum of my head for a very long time. A vigorous,
stimulating read; I shit you not.
FrutigerBlack
Well, I’m neither web nerd nor New York poet,
but I still enjoyed reading your site … that’s
why I enjoy your site so much, because it is so
brutally honest, so raw.
MH, online
I’ve composed a list of men i’d sleep
with just for their brainpower/talent alone…#6.
mingus tourette - he’s not famous yet, but
give it time. he frightens me... in a good way.
Afrochic, afrochic.net
Buy
Nunt Now!!!
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