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Spencer Gordon

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Spencer Gordon is the author of three books: a collection of dramatic monologues, A Horse at the Window (House of Anansi Press, June 2024), the poetry collection Cruise Missile Liberals (Nightwood Editions, 2017), and the short story collection Cosmo (Coach House Books, 2012). Reviews of A Horse at the Window below:

“A Horse at the Window is a Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for our fractured, pixelated 21st century. With maximum velocity, existential wit, and dazzling imagery, Spencer Gordon spins a zoetrope of the Anthropocene that uncannily helps make sense of being alive today, yesterday, and tomorrow while claiming there is no point.”— Zsuzsi Gartner, author of the Giller shortlisted Better Living through Plastic Explosives, a
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Cosmo

4.01 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
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Cruise Missile Liberals

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A Horse at the Window

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Reviews and Blurbs of A Horse at the Window

A Horse at the Window

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“A collection of super-funny, consistently enervating quasi-monologues that vehemently exists both in the right-now and in the eternal. There’s also a Buddhistic aspect to it that, while somewhat beyond my own dismally unenlightened mind, I can feel rubbing off on me as I read. And yeah, I laughed.” — Rob Benvie, the Toronto Star

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“There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.”
Spencer Gordon, Cosmo

“All the things she couldn’t say, the things no one wanted to hear.”
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“...one song, one note that heals the guilty chaos of our days, making sense of our loneliness, our perjured feelings, our sickness and our poverty, how we shall never be beautiful, how our heads will run over with unbearable secrets and how we are sentenced to this, serving us right -- when the song should end, be cut down, finished, and the singer not go on singing.”
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