A Book to Ruin Your Appetite

First, a word of caution: Buffet World, the latest from Vancouver-based visual and conceptual poet Donato Mancini, may ruin your appetite. Buffet World is Mancini’s third book, coming on the heels of Ligatures (2005; here’s the titular piece) and Æthel (2007; here’s some of the work in it), and it gives us a body of work that looks and feels a bit more like the poems we’re used to reading, but by no means abandons Mancini’s established commitments to conceptualism and experimentation as established in those earlier collections.