
Joe Fiorito
In his third collection of verse, Quicker Than The Eye, Joe Fiorito continues to craft short, sharp poems that define the harder edges of urban life. His principal tools are a photographer's eye for detail, and a musician’s ear for the sound of the human voice. Now, in Quicker Than The Eye, Canada’s poet of the streets turns his gaze inward, writing about the influences of early love, family tragedy, and the search for meaning in a world where “the desolate things are mine.” A master of spare, razor-sharp language, Fiorito manages to strip sentiment from memory in order to find tenderness and enduring truth on the margins of the city. He has never written more austerely or more beautifully.
Signal EditionsPoetry 2023
Praise for Joe Fiorito:
“Fiorito proves himself a storyteller of remarkable gifts: there’s an aura of dignity and beauty over events, sometimes terrible, sometimes tender.”—Esquire
“Joe Fiorito writes like a rough-hewn angel.” —The Globe and Mail
“Fiorito has all the right stuff.”—Mordecai Richler
Other books by Joe Fiorito: All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been
Available September 2023
Trade paperback
70 pp 7.5" x 0.25"
ISBN13: 9781550656367
CDN $19.95 US & International
US $16.95
Ebook
ISBN13: 9781550656442
CDN $13.99