Michael e. Casteels is the author of over a dozen chapbooks of poetry. In 2012, he was nominated for The Premier's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, an emerging artist award. He lives in Kingston, where he runs Puddles of Sky Press.
"I absolutely loved Michael E. Casteels' The Last White House At
the End of the Row of White Houses,
his first full-length book of poems. The collection is a
wonderful
blending of the strange and the ordinary, the mundane and the
magical,
and it was a pleasure to lose myself in Casteels' surreal and
dreamlike
poetry... Funny and compelling, and imbued with empathy,
Casteels'
collection definitely stood out for me this year."--Megan Callahan,
Vallum 2016 Year in Poetry"Casteels
mixes clinical detail of the day to day with an imagined reality
that
lives just beneath our skin and just beyond our grasp. The result
is a
strangely familiar poetic that can be both consternating and
comforting
depending on whether Casteels is slamming on the brakes or
hammering
down on the gas."--Today's Book of Poetry"[An] enchanting little
collection."--Bookgaga"Reading Michael E Casteels' 2016 book of
poems, The Last White House at the End of the Row of White Houses,
published by Invisible publishing out of Canada, is almost like
reading a Spaghetti Western written by Haruki Murakami."--Daniel E.
Haislet, If You Asked Me About"These are beautiful, strange and
uplifting poems, set on the border between what is known, and what
might be impossible."--rob mclennan"Surreal,
off-the-wall, funny... they are also deep, thoughtful and edgy. We
feel
better about the apocalypse after reading them."--Kingston
Whig-Standard"Worlds
of invention, humour, insight and the energy that is language.
Michael
e. Casteels's first full-length collection is rich with empathy
for
robots and the sea, and the brilliant, delicate, outrageous leaps
the
mind makes when given words and our lives."--Gary Barwin, Moon
Baboon Canoe"Have
you seen Michael e. Casteel's first full-length book of poems?
It's
here, in front of your face. It begins with a wolf at the door and
ends
by waving farewell to our hands. Inside you'll find everything you
need:
robots, a possum's sneeze, and coffins filled with jelly donuts.
The Last White House at the End of the Row of White Houses
is one of the most exciting debuts to appear in Canadian
poetry.
Brilliant, strange, beautiful and encouraging, Casteel's poetry is
a
repair kit for the human spirit."--Jason Heroux, Hard Work Cheering
Up Sad Machines--Gary Barwin
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