Poetry
Based On Actual Events
- Publisher
- Véhicule Press, “Signal Editions” series
- Published
- September 20, 2016
- Pages
- 88
- Price
- $17.95
- ISBN
- 9781550654554
- Language
- English
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Taking its inspiration from Melville’s famous line “If man will strike, strike through the mask!”, Based on Actual Events punches through the surface of visible things, grabbing wild at the drifting actual. Calling himself a “a realist in fabulist clothing,” Robert Moore gives us a book-length sequence of sleek, fiercely comic, colloquial poems whose aphoristic storytelling is pegged to a nostalgia for sublimity. His project is to find new frames of reference for our estrangement from the world. With each burst of invention and stylistic high-spiritedness (“So we reverse engineered the awesome and all we got / was this lousy poesy”), Based on Actual Events adds up to be Moore’s best book yet.
Reviews
“…[T]he collection… features a successful mixing of registers and vocabularies as it channels elements of philosophy, literature, and pop culture.” – Dale Tracy, Canadian Literature
Description from the publisher Véhicule Press, seen in October 2026 · Source ↗
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The Golden book of Bovinities Robert Moore
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We Drove All Day for This Bruce Taylor
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Qaf’s People Sadiqa de Meijer
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My Summer Vacation Zeenat Nagree
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Cannibal Rats Richard Greene
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Morgan’s Castle Jan Hilliard
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How to Move On Joel Yanofsky
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Private Number David Homel
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Fan Mail Jason Guriel
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The Inferno Dante Alighieri
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Quietly, Loving Everyone Curtis John McRae
