My New Collection Cant Republic is Out Now

In 2020 at the height of the COVID lockdown, I started a series of erasure poems working from the speeches and writings of Donald Trump. This became the backbone of my poetry collection Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts, out now from Alien Buddha Press. 

 From the Publisher: "With an unflinching gaze, Chad Parenteau explores the erosion of civil liberties, the fragility of democracy, and the thin line between speech and silence.

"Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts is a dissection of what remains when words are stripped away. Every blackout carved into the text, feels like a void heartbeat. The words left behind all demand your attention. It’s a language of removal, where the unsaid holds as much weight as the said."

From poet and publisher Mark Lipman: "Chad Parenteau’s new collection, Can’t Republic: Erasures and Blackouts is reminiscent in it’s style to William Burroughs’ cut-up poems, where Parenteau takes transcripts from political speeches made by Donald Trump and strips them down to their essence: a gutting of democracy and civil rights, a boosting of ego and bravado, a moral and ethical decay that takes us all down with it, and flips it on its head, using poetry and satire to expose a would-be emperor without any clothes. It’s a fun and imaginative take to the serious condition of a world gone wrong."

Order it now from Amazon today.