Cantaloupe! brings us nine juicy stories about trying (and failing) to do the right thing — about characters who are striving to hold everything together while staying true to their convictions and sense of justice in the process. With razor-sharp prose and a bit of slapstick humour, M. Jay Smith contemplates how identities smudge into each other, how they shout and push and wither and explode under pressure. And no matter what, one’s best intentions go a little bit awry.

Smith shows us, with absolute clarity, how poetry, maybe only poetry, can express
the baffling array of overlapping contradictions running through life in late capitalism.

Lori Emerson, historian of obsolete technology

To find oneself once more immersed in Antonioni’s world of images and signs is a novel, surprising, revitalizing experience.

Laura Rascaroli, professor at University College Cork and editor of Antonioni: Centenary Essays

the eclipse slows down the reel of film to its component frames and out of them arranges
a collage of intensified images of modern urban life: concrete, steel, exhaust, the
structures and machinations of gender.

Jason Purcell, author of Swollening

What if Keith Haring, the graffiti artist and activist, were able to communicate with the world he left behind?

the lucky incantation

in a former life, i was a figment,

a poetics of  endangerment,

the picture of a party

the body

was a good one, 

the troubles of having it, though!

like a baby bird, a wolf man

when the heavens appeared,

i was trying to relate