Gongo Dodan

by Gustave Morin

GONGO DODAN is comprised of sixty–two unusual poems. Gustave Morin's poems have never played by the rules, opting instead to playing for keeps, gleefully channelling those cosmic and eternal verities that have long been associated with both the written word and the colossal image.

GONGO DODAN is the result of a lifetime of absorbed aesthetic philosophy shot through many critical social commentaries, all of which serve to illustrate how an amalgamation of a knowledge of the arts, when applied to the art of writing artfully, can come to inhabit one word pushed beyond its own inevitable plasticity – poetry.

88 pages, Paperback

First published April 14, 2022

Reviews

[Mark Laliberte · Rating 4 out of 5]

After several decades of producing visually dominant ‘writing’ & releasing a constellation of projects falling into fringe literary categories like vispo, dirty concrete, narrative collage, typewriter poetry, etcetera, Windsor, ON poet Gustave Morin now delivers GONGO DODAN … what amounts to his first book of WORDS …

Despite the categorical range, all the work he’s created to date has been clearly framed as literature, even if it hasn’t always been received as such. This new full-length collection offers an essential focal point to help refine the understanding of Morin’s poetics within the greater CanLit canon.

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