New Video series from Garry Thomas Morse featuring excerpts from Yams Do Not Exist
We’re excited to share a series of new videos from Garry Thomas Morse featuring readings from his novel Yams Do Not Exist. We’d recommend you start with An Introduction to Yams Do Not Exist first so you can get some behind the scenes insight from the author about his homage to some literary greats.
You can check out the series as a playlist on our Turnstone Press YouTube channel here and visit Garry Thomas Morse’s YouTube channel direct here.
About Yams Do Not Exist:
Farinata Feck, a poet of mixed heritage, is a man of many appetites; yet he is most consumed by the search to find his romantic ideal. Yo-yoing between Regina and Winnipeg, Farinata crosses paths with colonial ghosts, cosplay enthusiasts, a Faulknerian gossip, a rogue tree-cop, and a sweet potato activist. With equal parts playfulness and decadence, Garry Thomas Morse renders the Beckettish adventures of the lovelorn libertine with hypnotic surrealism. A dizzying display of literary opulence and allusion, Yams Do Not Exist finds footholds in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, footnoting a twisting, prairie roadmap to romance, by turns hellish and sublime.
Praise
—Catherine Hunter
Related in dazzling prose, Farinata's picaresque adventures transpose whole worlds of art, poetry, and music onto the dreamscapes of the prairies. Morse's pyro-technique produces a marvel of witty discord.
—Meira Cook
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