Presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field.
Presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field.
Gregory Betts is the Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University and the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. He is the author of Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations (2013) as well as six books of experimental poetry. He is currently the artistic director of the Festival of Readers in St. Catharines. Christian Bök won the Griffin Poetry Prize for his book Eunoia. He is currently working on The Xenotext, a project that requires him to encode a poem into the genome of a microbe capable of thriving in any inhospitable environment. Bök is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada, and he teaches at Charles Darwin University.
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1. List of Figures 2. I INTRODUCTION 3. 1 Gregory Betts and Christian Bök—Time for the Avant-Garde in Canada 4. II PROLOGUE 5. 2 Lisa Robertson—The Collective 6. 3 Liz Howard—Against Assimilation I Rose into Poetry 7. III THE CENTENNIAL 8. 4 Kristine Smitka—The Sublation of Obduracy: Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Marketing of Beautiful Losers 9. 5 Stephen Cain—""A Vision in the UofT Stacks"": bpNichol in the Library 10. IV CONCRETE POLITICS 11. 6 Julia Polyck-O'Neill—Words With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts 12. 7 Mike Borkent—Post/Avant Comics: bpNichol's Material Poetics and Comics Art Manifestos 13. 8 Eric Schmaltz—A Field Guide to North Concrete: Identification Chart 14. 9 Kelly Mark—National and Time 15. 10 Kaie Kellough—Continents 16. V LANGUAGE WRITING 17. 11 Michael Roberson—Transformation or Resistance: The Kootenay School of Writing in Context 18. 12 Kit Dobson—A Poetics of Neoliberalism 19. 13 Dorothy Trujillo Lusk—Sleek Vinyl Drill 20. 14 Erín Moure—Pillage 12 (""Anaximenes"") 21. 15 Donato Mancini—If Violence (Hey You) 22. VI IDENTITY WRITING 23. 16 Myra Bloom—Messy Confessions: Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be? 24. 17 Sonnet L'Abbé—Erasures from the Territories Called Canada: Sharpening the Gaze at White Backgrounds 25. 18 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson—caribou ghosts & untold stories 26. 19 Lee Maracle—Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel 27. 20 Annharte—cum cum how cum dat cums around even from behind 28. VII COPYLEFT POLITICS 29. 21 Katie L. Price—A ≠ A: The Potential for a Pataphysical Poetics in Dan Farrell's The Inkblot Record 30. 22 Darren Wershler—Everyday Practice Before and After Conceptual Writing 31. 23 Derek Beaulieu—Prose of the TransCanada 32. 24 Moez Surani—1988 33. 25 Dani Spinosa—Anxious Influence: Reading John Cage Theoretically 34. VIII EPILOGUE 35. 26 André Alexis—On Amanda PL's Cancelled Exhibit 36. 27 An Interview with Jordan Abel—A Line Can Be Drawn 37. IX AFTER MATTER 38. Notes and Acknowledgements 39. Bibliography 40. About the Authors 41. Index
1. List of Figures 2. I INTRODUCTION 3. 1 Gregory Betts and Christian Bök—Time for the Avant-Garde in Canada 4. II PROLOGUE 5. 2 Lisa Robertson—The Collective 6. 3 Liz Howard—Against Assimilation I Rose into Poetry 7. III THE CENTENNIAL 8. 4 Kristine Smitka—The Sublation of Obduracy: Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Marketing of Beautiful Losers 9. 5 Stephen Cain—""A Vision in the UofT Stacks"": bpNichol in the Library 10. IV CONCRETE POLITICS 11. 6 Julia Polyck-O'Neill—Words With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts 12. 7 Mike Borkent—Post/Avant Comics: bpNichol's Material Poetics and Comics Art Manifestos 13. 8 Eric Schmaltz—A Field Guide to North Concrete: Identification Chart 14. 9 Kelly Mark—National and Time 15. 10 Kaie Kellough—Continents 16. V LANGUAGE WRITING 17. 11 Michael Roberson—Transformation or Resistance: The Kootenay School of Writing in Context 18. 12 Kit Dobson—A Poetics of Neoliberalism 19. 13 Dorothy Trujillo Lusk—Sleek Vinyl Drill 20. 14 Erín Moure—Pillage 12 (""Anaximenes"") 21. 15 Donato Mancini—If Violence (Hey You) 22. VI IDENTITY WRITING 23. 16 Myra Bloom—Messy Confessions: Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be? 24. 17 Sonnet L'Abbé—Erasures from the Territories Called Canada: Sharpening the Gaze at White Backgrounds 25. 18 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson—caribou ghosts & untold stories 26. 19 Lee Maracle—Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel 27. 20 Annharte—cum cum how cum dat cums around even from behind 28. VII COPYLEFT POLITICS 29. 21 Katie L. Price—A ≠ A: The Potential for a Pataphysical Poetics in Dan Farrell's The Inkblot Record 30. 22 Darren Wershler—Everyday Practice Before and After Conceptual Writing 31. 23 Derek Beaulieu—Prose of the TransCanada 32. 24 Moez Surani—1988 33. 25 Dani Spinosa—Anxious Influence: Reading John Cage Theoretically 34. VIII EPILOGUE 35. 26 André Alexis—On Amanda PL's Cancelled Exhibit 36. 27 An Interview with Jordan Abel—A Line Can Be Drawn 37. IX AFTER MATTER 38. Notes and Acknowledgements 39. Bibliography 40. About the Authors 41. Index
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