All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts

Imagine a world just like our own: the celebrities march their sequined parade on TV, the Dairy Queens dollop out fat splooges of frozen yogurt, folks hump one another like they always have, and sometimes there''s shoplifting, and sometimes there''s love. Except there''s no morality, none at all, which skews things some. Murder happens off-handedly, as a joke, the librarians are all on acid, at parties people chug goblets of their own pee, and Fred Savage has been crowned king of Romania. This is the world of All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts, a book of poems about the search for order amid total, hilarious moral collapse.

Pasha Malla was born in St. John''s, Newfoundland, grew up in London, Ontario, and now lives in Toronto, where he is the founder of Now Hear This!, a writers-in-schools program run through Descant Arts & Letters Foundation. His writing has appeared in The Globe & Mail, Maisonneuve, and McSweeney''s, among other publications, been twice included in the Journey Prize Stories, and featured on CBC Radio''s Definitely Not the Opera. Pasha''s first collection of stories, The Withdrawal Method, will be published by House of Anansi in May.