Wishipedia
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In 1982 Pier Giorgio Di Cicco entered a monastery and didn't break publishing silence for fifteen years. In 2004 he was elected Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto and went on to become a renowned speaker on urban design and the future of cities. In 2017 he moved into the oldest haunted church rectory in Canada, from where he mapped a cyber-cosmology for our times with wizardly humor, holographic abandon and a litany of blessings across dimensions. The former monk became the ghost of St. Columbkille
Enclosed in this book are catalogues and inventories of wish fulfillment, and a fascinating "virtual game" in which the "player" becomes master of an imagination not his own, where past and present and future find a trajectory that makes faster-than-light travel look old-fashioned.
Wishipedia is the public code to the private space that is both mythic and stunningly contemporary.
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Pier Giorgio Di Cicco is the author of twenty-two volumes of poetry and a book of manifestos on creative cities called Municipal Mind. He has lectured widely in the domain of creative economies throughout North America and Europe and is the recipient of a Canadian Urban Institute Award for his thesis of civic spirit as the underpinning of prosperous modern cities. He is a Roman Catholic priest, a jazz trumpeter, and principal of the urban consultancy, "Municipal Mind". He is presently the public space liaison between the stakeholders of the Toronto waterfront land and the City of Toronto. He was the Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto between 2004 and 2009.