Gifts

Gifts

Author: B. P. Nichol

Publisher: Coach House Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781552450901

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BpNichol's The Martyrology is a long poem begun in 1967 and continuing until Nichol's death in 1988. It includes Books 1 & 2 (1972), Book(s) 7 & (1990), and Ad Sanctos: Book 9 (1992). The text in this volume is a facsimile, with minor corrections, of the 1990 edition of Gifts. --Coach House Books.


Reading the Difficulties

Reading the Difficulties

Author: Thomas Fink

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2014-02-28

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0817357521

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Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association (John Ashbery), others that experimental poetry is a "re-staging" of language (Bruce Andrews) or a syntactic and cognitive break with the past (Ron Silliman and Lyn Hejinian). The tenets of new poetry abound. But what of the new reading that such poetry demands? The essays in Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. They allow readers to interact with verse that deliberately removes many of the comfortable cues to comprehension-poetry that is frequently non-narrative, non-representational, and indeterminate in subject, theme, or message. Book jacket.


Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Author: Eugene Benson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 1950

ISBN-13: 1134468482

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" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.


Some Lines of Poetry

Some Lines of Poetry

Author: bpNichol

Publisher: Coach House Books

Published: 2024-09-24

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1770568298

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CBC BOOKS "CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024" For bpNichol’s 80th birthday, a selection of 80 pieces from his 1980s notebooks, an astounding trove of never-before-seen work. One of Canada’s most beloved poets, bpNichol (1944–1988), left a huge legacy of poetry, prose, scripts, comics, and playful interrogation of language after his untimely passing in 1988. In celebration of what would have been Nichol’s eightieth birthday, Some Lines of Poetry gathers excerpts from Nichol’s journals across the 1980s to give a unique perspective on craft, process, and a writer’s life. Featuring works in progress, insight into Nichol’s thinking, previously unpublished prose and lyric, visual, and sound poems, Some Lines of Poetry documents Nichol’s “apprenticeship to language” and his playful daily exploration of the limits of writing. Lovingly edited by noted poet-scholars Derek Beaulieu and Gregory Betts, who provide an afterword contextualizing Nichol’s practice, Some Lines of Poetry is a map of hidden corners, a guidebook to poetic play, and a tribute to Nichol’s ongoing influence.


Assembling Alternatives

Assembling Alternatives

Author: Romana Huk

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2003-04-29

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780819565402

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First anthology to examine the national borders of postmodern poetry.


Writing the Roaming Subject

Writing the Roaming Subject

Author: Joanne Saul

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0802090125

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Writing the Roaming Subject explores issues of identity formation, representation, and resistance in Canada and suggests that these are particularly crucial questions during a period of Canadian literary history.


American Women Poets in the 21st Century

American Women Poets in the 21st Century

Author: Claudia Rankine

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 0819574449

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Poetry in America is flourishing in this new millennium and asking serious questions of itself: Is writing marked by gender and if so, how? What does it mean to be experimental? How can lyric forms be authentic? This volume builds on the energetic tensions inherent in these questions, focusing on ten major American women poets whose collective work shows an incredible range of poetic practice. Each section of the book is devoted to a single poet and contains new poems; a brief "statement of poetics" by the poet herself in which she explores the forces — personal, aesthetic, political — informing her creative work; a critical essay on the poet's work; a biographical statement; and a bibliography listing works by and about the poet. Underscoring the dynamic give and take between poets and the culture at large, this anthology is indispensable for anyone interested in poetry, gender and the creative process. CONTRIBUTORS: Rae Armantrout, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lucie Brock Broido, Jorie Graham, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, Susan Howe, Ann Lauterbach, Harryette Mullen.


A Nomad Poetics

A Nomad Poetics

Author: Pierre Joris

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2003-11-05

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780819566461

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Powerful essays on the state and aims of contemporary poetry.


Avant-Garde Canadian Literature

Avant-Garde Canadian Literature

Author: Gregory Betts

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-02-27

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1442696915

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In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Canadian media, the public, and the literary critics. This book presents a rich body of evidence to illustrate the extent to which Canadians have been producing avant-garde art since the start of the twentieth century. Betts explores the radical literary ambitions and achievements of three different nodes of avant-garde literary activity: mystical revolutionaries from the 1910s to the 1930s; Surrealists/Automatists from the 1920s to the 1960s; and Canadian Vorticists from the 1920s to the 1970s. Avant-Garde Canadian Literature offers an entrance into the vocabulary of the ongoing and primarily international debate surrounding the idea of avant-gardism, providing readers with a functional vocabulary for discussing some of the most hermetic and yet energetic literature ever produced in this country.