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Stuart Ross published his first literary pamphlet on the photocopier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. Through the 1980s, he stood on Toronto’s Yonge Street wearing signs like “Writer Going To Hell: Buy My Books,” selling over 7,000 poetry and fiction chapbooks.

A tireless literary press activist, he is the co-founder of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair and now a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective, Poetry Editor at Mansfield Press, and Fiction & Poetry Editor at This Magazine.

Stuart has edited several small literary magazines, including Mondo Hunkamooga: A Journal of Small Press Stuff, Dwarf Puppets on Parade, Syd & Shirley, Who Torched Rancho Diablo?, Peter O’Toole: A Magazine of One-Line Poems, and, most rec

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I've been a little antsy about whether my new poetry book, You Exist. Details Follow., is going to get reviewed. So I was happy to see it looked at as part of a group review in the May 26 edition of the Winnipeg Free Press. The reviewer is Jonathan Ball. I really like that he talked about my poem "Time."
You Exist. Details Follow (Anvil, 120 pages, $16), by Cobourg's Stuart Ross, is filled with...
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Published on May 30, 2012 22:00
Average rating: 4.23 · 158 ratings · 35 reviews · 19 distinct works
Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew: A...
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Buying Cigarettes for the Dog
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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I Cut My Finger
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2007
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Hey, Crumbling Balcony!: Po...
4.62 of 5 stars 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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Confessions of a Small Pres...
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Dead Cars in Managua
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Surreal Estate: Thirteen Po...
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003
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Farmer Gloomy's New Hybrid
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1999
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You Exist. Details Follow.
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Henry Kafka & Other Stories
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I've been a little antsy about whether my new poetry book, You Exist. Details Follow., is going to get reviewed. So I was happy to see it looked at... read more »
Stuart made a comment on Greg's review of The Pale King
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"Oh, DFW. Right. DFW. "
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
" What renders a truth meaningful, worthwhile, & c. is its relevance, which in turn requires extraordinary discernment and sensitivity to context, questions of value, and overall point-otherwise we might as well all just be computers downloading... "
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"I'm telling you, the Reinhart books will knock yer socks off. "
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"The only thing I've read by Edgar Ouli Poe is "The Raven." "
The Great Fire of London by Jacques Roubaud
" Gosh. Wow.

This is good. I mean really good. Like, this could turn out to be a new favorite author of mine good.

I say this with all the normal caveats of any of my loved books, I think this is fucking awesome but I'm not recommending just anyone... "
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"Sounds like time for The Land of the Green Plums. "
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"What's a DFW? Donald Fitzcarraldo Westlake? "
A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava
" I remember back about a decade ago when a couple of the big self-publishing companies were pushing their wares one of them used a line something like, "James Joyce was self-published". They were trying to sell you on the idea that if you've writte... "
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Maureen hi stuart! nice to "meet" you. and i see you are also friends with somebody i know in real life, rebecca rosenblum! :)


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karen i voted for my "favourite" book!


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