Resurrection in the Cartoon Author:Robert Priest Resurrection in the Cartoon is Robert Priest's first full collection of new poems in seven years. Grounded in twentieth-century pop iconography, this book delivers all the passion, satire, and engaging wit that's become Priest's trademark. Individually, these qualities mark every poem as socially and politically relevant. Together, they make him... more » one of our most readable, challenging, and important poets. As a collection, Resurrection in the Cartoon takes on everything from Elvis and the Three Stooges to the current right wing political agenda. Relentless in its assessment of contemporary culture, the mordant irony, brutal honesty, and remarkable sensitivity of Priest's surreal prose poems, lush lyrics, confessions, psalms, slams, songs, sayings, and parables creates a poetic crucible in which the Canadian "melting-pot" is purified of its hypocrisies and reclaimed, ultimately, in the joy of language.« less