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Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts
From the Publisher: "With an unflinching gaze, Chad Parenteau explores the erosion of civil liberties, the fragility of democracy, and the thin line between speech and silence.
"Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts is a dissection of what remains when words are stripped away. Every blackout carved into the text, feels like a void heartbeat. The words left behind all demand your attention. It’s a language of removal, where the unsaid holds as much weight as the said."
From Mark Lipman: "Chad Parenteau’s new collection, Can’t Republic: Erasures and Blackouts is reminiscent in it’s style to William Burroughs’ cut-up poems, where Parenteau takes transcripts from political speeches made by Donald Trump and strips them down to their essence: a gutting of democracy and civil rights, a boosting of ego and bravado, a moral and ethical decay that takes us all down with it, and flips it on its head, using poetry and satire to expose a would-be emperor without any clothes. It’s a fun and imaginative take to the serious condition of a world gone wrong."
Order it now from Amazon today.
"Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts is a dissection of what remains when words are stripped away. Every blackout carved into the text, feels like a void heartbeat. The words left behind all demand your attention. It’s a language of removal, where the unsaid holds as much weight as the said."
From Mark Lipman: "Chad Parenteau’s new collection, Can’t Republic: Erasures and Blackouts is reminiscent in it’s style to William Burroughs’ cut-up poems, where Parenteau takes transcripts from political speeches made by Donald Trump and strips them down to their essence: a gutting of democracy and civil rights, a boosting of ego and bravado, a moral and ethical decay that takes us all down with it, and flips it on its head, using poetry and satire to expose a would-be emperor without any clothes. It’s a fun and imaginative take to the serious condition of a world gone wrong."
Order it now from Amazon today.
All's Well Isn't You
Last night, my chapbook All's Well Isn't You was released last night by JMcD Communications. This is work I completed over a decade ago, and I'm glad it finally found an independent publisher. Thanks to Lachlan J McDougall for accepting this manuscript a year ago.
All's Well is my Exile in Guyville, a series of response poems that stand alone and moved on from their original targets.
You can order All's Well Isn't You off of Amazon.
The Lost Bookshelf
The Collapsed Bookshelf is a selection of Stone Soup Croutons pieces written from June 2015 to August 2016. This book collects reworked poems, many of which are no longer available online.
I am grateful to Mignon Ariel King and Tell-Tale Chapbooks for giving this work a brand new presentation. I am also grateful to Edward S. Gault for providing photography for the cover.
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"One of my favorite books of poetry! There is a champion poet at work here! Chad Parenteau’s skill to write us readers out of any prediction is hard at work from the very first poem, and continues telling us the grand, easy truth of life, “Your empty hands need nothing to hold.” I want to buy a copy for everyone I know!"
--CA Conrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death
"If I were to sum up this review in one word it would be 'Concern.' The poet's sensitivity to the world's troubles and how they filter down to us all is the driving force here. The Collapsed Bookshelf is a poetic work of art."
--Susan Tepper, author of What Drives Men
I am grateful to Mignon Ariel King and Tell-Tale Chapbooks for giving this work a brand new presentation. I am also grateful to Edward S. Gault for providing photography for the cover.
Order The Collapsed Bookshelf now off from Amazon.
"One of my favorite books of poetry! There is a champion poet at work here! Chad Parenteau’s skill to write us readers out of any prediction is hard at work from the very first poem, and continues telling us the grand, easy truth of life, “Your empty hands need nothing to hold.” I want to buy a copy for everyone I know!"
--CA Conrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death
"If I were to sum up this review in one word it would be 'Concern.' The poet's sensitivity to the world's troubles and how they filter down to us all is the driving force here. The Collapsed Bookshelf is a poetic work of art."
--Susan Tepper, author of What Drives Men
Patron Emeritus
My first full-length collection of poetry is now available from FootHills Publishing.
Patron Emeritus is the result of over three years' work. From writing the poems, to editing the poems with my workshop, to assembling the manuscript with Ron Goba, to working on the important final touches with publisher Michael Czarnecki cover artist James Conant (not to mention the great quotes I got from Valerie Loveland and Susan Deer Cloud). It's finally done and out there for you to purchase and read.
Order Patron Emeritus from FootHills Publishing.
"Like gem stones the hard knocks of life shine with intensity from these accomplished poems. Get yourself a coffee. Make sure the boss is not around. Then read this book."
—Dennis Daly
Patron Emeritus is the result of over three years' work. From writing the poems, to editing the poems with my workshop, to assembling the manuscript with Ron Goba, to working on the important final touches with publisher Michael Czarnecki cover artist James Conant (not to mention the great quotes I got from Valerie Loveland and Susan Deer Cloud). It's finally done and out there for you to purchase and read.
Order Patron Emeritus from FootHills Publishing.
"Like gem stones the hard knocks of life shine with intensity from these accomplished poems. Get yourself a coffee. Make sure the boss is not around. Then read this book."
—Dennis Daly
HHH
Why HHH for a title? You'll just have to get a copy to find out. The plus side is that I'm offering it as a free download. Written on New Year's 2010 at the end of a year-long writing challenge (365 poems in 365 days), the collection is a haiku tour de force I haven't repeated since then (though I'm in the middle of another 365 challenge this year, so you never know). Includes another amazing cover by Bret Kerr and an introduction by local performance poet Michael Monroe.
Download the chapbook now.
Download the chapbook now.
Discarded: Poems for My Apartments
From Červená Barva Press, these so-called "roommate poems" (though they cover many topics) helped to close several chapters of my life (and serve to remind me why I live by myself today). Tom Daley, my friend and frequent poetry instructor, puts it better than I can: "These poems will leave their mark on the mind of any reader who has ever stammered through a roommate interview or suffocated from the incense sneaking under the crack at the bottom of a roommate's door."
Purchase Discarded: Poems for My Apartment from The Lost Bookshelf.
Purchase Discarded: Poems for My Apartment from The Lost Bookshelf.
Sarcastic Haiku
In late 2002, I started my series of "Sarcastic Haiku" as an exercise. As my country moved closer and closer to war with another former ally, my haiku became more and more linked with the Iraq war and the GW presidency.
Printed on normal copy paper, aside from the great cover design by friend Bret Kerr, this is the most "zine" of my publications. I plan to make this a free PDF download someday.
Please don't order it on Amazon, where one was on sale for $25.
Printed on normal copy paper, aside from the great cover design by friend Bret Kerr, this is the most "zine" of my publications. I plan to make this a free PDF download someday.
Please don't order it on Amazon, where one was on sale for $25.
Self-Portrait In Fire
My first poetry chapbook, self-published in 2003 under my Freak Machine Press imprint. Since I thought at the time that it would be the only collection I'd ever do, it contained only my best work from my college, MFA, and small press years from 1994-2001. It's also the first chapbook of mine to sport artwork by friend James Conant, who I continue to work with to this day. The book still gets talked about from time to time , and I still read some of the pieces in the book when I feature.
Out of print after all these years. I'll see about making this tome more available in the future.
Please don't buy this copy from Amazon either.
Out of print after all these years. I'll see about making this tome more available in the future.
Please don't buy this copy from Amazon either.
