Indexical Elegies - Softcover

Jon Paul Fiorentino is the author of the novel Stripmalling, which was shortlisted for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and three poetry collections, including The Theory of the Loser Class, which was shortlisted for the A. M. Klein Prize. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches writing at Concordia University, edits Matrix magazine and runs Snare Books.

There is no mistaking Fiorentino’s sharp wit and precise vocabulary, which are entirely individual something far too few writers can claim.’ Quill and Quire

In place of mythology and conventional symbols, the poems explore the nature of language through puns, onomatopoeia, and aphorisms about meaning ... [Fiorentino’s] combination of feeling and thought gives this book remarkable power.’ Montreal Review of Books

'Jon Paul Fiorentino offers a diverse smattering of styles that demonstrate an edgy playfulness, attendant to the pun and to sound, to form and to formula.' Canadian Literature


‘There is no mistaking Fiorentino’s sharp wit and precise vocabulary, which are entirely individual – something far too few writers can claim.’ – Quill and Quire

‘In place of mythology and conventional symbols, the poems explore the nature of language through puns, onomatopoeia, and aphorisms about meaning ... [Fiorentino’s] combination of feeling and thought gives this book remarkable power.’ – Montreal Review of Books

'Jon Paul Fiorentino offers a diverse smattering of styles that demonstrate an edgy playfulness, attendant to the pun and to sound, to form and to formula.' – Canadian Literature