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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454587903321

Titolo

Side/lines [[electronic resource] ] : a new Canadian poetics / / edited by Rob McLennan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, : Insomniac Press, c2002

ISBN

1-280-91020-8

9786610910205

1-4593-0871-9

1-897414-10-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McLennanRob

Disciplina

811.009

Soggetti

Canadian poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Canadian poetry - 20th century

Canadian poetry - 21st century

Poetry - Authorship

Poetics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Side/lines; introduction: rob mclennan; Notes and Slips Retrieved from Various of My Works, with Reference to My Poetics; A Garish Simulacrum of Being Alive; poetics statement: problems in composition; A Prose is a Prose is a Prose is a; Poetics Statement; Into the Ocean; Company; en train de: (his little fraught patriation of forms; Self-Interview; ""because capitalism makes the nouns / and burns the connections"": Notes Towards an Articulatory Poetics; Damsel in Da Dress; Notes Towards an Operational Poetics; Ambit. Ardour. Orders: A Poetics of Polymedial Pasties; Happy the Ghost-Boy

PULP GIMP: A POETICSPoser; (The Function & Field) Of Speech & Language; Sweet Poetry or Mystery Meat?; Ottawa snapshot: a quick poetics; Holding Pattern; Good Golly Miss Molly: An Autobiographical Poetics; Poem as Collage of the Real; COPPING: The Double Voice and Jazz Ethics; Berlin; Writing the Eye (a game of cat's cradle); Uses, Not Muses; My Meteoric Rise to Obscurity-A Treatise On the Merits of



Lexiconjury, Deliriomancy and Icelandic Breakfast Foods; FIRST WORDS; author bios; related (and recommended) reading; acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

This anthology offers refereshing, cogent and insightful explanations of why young poets and writers do what they do. The thirty pieces in side/lines - by a unique variety of Canadian writers working in numerous genres - reflect on why writers write. Their reflections are not to be held as gospel or lifelong theories, but can be considered writing strategies drawn up at specific points in time, informed by certain unavoidable material conditions, such as current politics and emotions. Ask these writers to explain their craft in ten years, and you may be surprised by their answers.