Cruise Missile Liberals

Spencer Gordons Cruise Missile Liberals is, as its title suggests, a very funny, often despairing book. Jammed with on-point pop and breathtaking turns of phrase, this collection of poems is genuinely compelling: it is hard to stop reading, so sweetly twisted is Gordons world. -- Lynn Crosbie, Author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night , Life is About Losing Everything & Liar Hot, hot, hot! Spencer Gordons Cruise Missile Liberals is an exquisitely detailed and passionately directed collection which finds vibrant resolve at the intersection of nation and art. With considerable heart and thrilling precision, these poems gratefully adopt the argot (and trouble) of the times and they discover a much different Canada, sweet with chipmunks and as untameable as Sk8er Boi. -- David McGimpsey, author of Asbestos Heights There is a generosity of spirit on offer here for we who are tired, placeless, saturated in social media, and wasted on the bright horror of a future that never arrives. This collection is deft, intelligent, and tender, if tenderness is something that can also crush youan intimacy that panics shut. For we who are Nature Woke, alchemical kids with gold teeth, wanting to live as I do, shockingly new, Gordon sings and memes against Canada the Good and presents us with an arresting portrait of our present moment. -- Liz Howard, Griffin-Award winning author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent