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The SubWay
135 pages featuring poetry, prose, historical and
contemporary photos
Constructed out of the hard physicality of the Toronto subway system, its
mechanisms and those elements of humanity that occasionally peer out from
behind its windows, The SubWay illustrates the history of the TTC and the
parallel impact it has on those riding it. The SubWay examines an
underground that in many ways functions as the central nervous system to the
city of Toronto. Blending both lyric poetry and found text, readers enter
The SubWay, and between the stops and starts, see their own subterranean
selves.
Much as the first Toronto subway train, back in 1954, slowly picked up speed
and became a form of perpetual motion, The SubWay is all about traveling
underground on a track that straddles chaos and meaning.
Jay MillAr's
BookThug press published The SubWay in
early November 2008 and it can be purchased online for $20 at
www.bookthug.ca and possibly through
the affiliated Apollinaire's Bookshoppe
(www. apollinaires.com).
It should be in your local bookstore soon or have them contact the
distributor, the Literary Press Group.
Here's a sampling from the manuscript and some poems that didn't make the final cut. (Also subway photos here).
The First Married Pair of Cars
First Subway Cars Built in Canada
Yonge subway line stare down—missed connections
Train into the Lawrence Station
The Prince Edward Viaduct's Luminous Veil www.philipquinn.ca
Angel Not a poem but Meet Mr. TTC Adam Giambrone
