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Title Side/lines : a new Canadian poetics / edited by Rob McLennan
Published Toronto [Ont.] : Insomniac Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Canadian poetry -- 20th century.
Poetry -- Authorship.
Poetics.
Canadian poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Canadian poetry -- 21st century
Literature -- Philosophy.
Literature -- Philosophy
Canadian poetry
Poetics
Poetry -- Authorship
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author McLennan, Rob, editor
ISBN 1897414102
9781897414101
Other Titles Sidelines