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"With Issa" is from a series of poems, currently called Without, written in response to poems in Undone by Sue Goyette.

     Nicholas Power lives in central Toronto and works as a special education teacher with teenagers who have developmental delays. He recently performed with a sound poetry quartet called Alexander's Dark Band and was a 'wild poet' (found in their natural habitats by participants in Steve Venright's tour of Toronto's Annex) during the Scream in High Park week.
      From the Monastery (poems featuring a fictional Buddhist monk), Starting where I am, and The Steady Pull of a Curious Dog are his most recent chapbooks of poems. His recent collection a modest device was published by The Writing Space. His work is online at www.bywords.ca and www.ottawater.com
      He is the publisher of Gesture Press and co-founder of Toronto Small Press Book Fair. Gesture Press has published postcards, broadsides and chapbooks by over 25 different authors since 1984.

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