Friday Special Blend
Friday January 24th, 2025 with Susan Johnston and Micah Petti
Hard Electric

New music by Audrey Saparno, and Michael Blouin joins us in-studio to talk about his new book of poetry, Hard Electric. About Hard Electric: Hard Electric is Michael Blouin's third book of poetry, a road-tripping, bridge-burning collection of the author's hard-won and soft-edged reflections that seem to stutter-step towards resolution while tumbling down a decided slant towards disaster."Where Does My Heart Beat Now" was Celine Dion's first North American hit and in it she asks: Where do all the lonely hearts go?' In Hard Electric Blouin presents a bleakly unsettling but ultimately life-affirming treatise that hints at his fascination with the same question and perhaps shuffles into the neighbourhood of an answer. That neighbourhood is peopled with the late-night bars of Key West's Duval Street, the sharp spice of BBQ joints, sunburned beach motels and Christmas lights frozen to February trees. And Susan Sarandon's cousin.