McLennan, Rob.
subverting the lyric : essays. - 1 online resource (251 pages)
Front Cover -- Spine -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Dubliners: Irish Utaniki -- 2 Not Exactly Two Cents' Worth: jwcurry's 1cent -- 3 What's Love Got to Do with It? Margaret Christakos' wipe.under.a.love and Excessive Love Prostheses -- 4 Train Journal: Vancouver-Toronto -- 5 A Life Built Up in Poems: Intersections with Some of George Bowering's Lines -- 6 Yes, I Have Published a Lot of Stuff: A Dozen Reasons Why I Will Not Apologize: A Schizophrenic Text for a Talk I Will Probably Not Follow -- 7 Tads: An Appreciation -- 8 Sex at Thirty-One, Thirty-Eight, Forty-Five, Fifty- Two, et cetera -- 9 A Displacement in Reading: Meredith Quartermain's The Eye-Shift of Surface and Other Writing -- 10 Jon Paul Fiorentino's Transcona, Winnipeg, and the Poetics of Failure -- 11 The Trouble with Normal: Breathing Fire 2, Pissing Ice, and the State of Canadian Poetry -- 12 One Selected, Two Selected: Changing on the Fly: The Best Lyric Poems of George Bowering -- 13 Some Notes on Narrative and the Long Poem: A Sequence of Sequences -- 14 Barry McKinnon's North: Opening Up The Centre -- 15 Notes on a day book -- 16 no more capital capitals: notes on The Ottawa City Project -- Acknowledgements.
From one of the most prolific and engaged book reviewers in Canada over the past 15 years, this collection of essays and reviews showcases the literary insight of rob mclennan. The works of such Canadian poets as George Bowering, Margaret Christakos, and Barry McKinnon are addressed and analyzed, as is the status of Canadian poetry as a whole. Mclennan's own investigations into the craft of writing are uncovered as well. Strikingly innovative and refreshingly communal, this compilation works as a whole to demonstrate how mainstream Canadian literature can be reconciled with the art of fringe authors.
9781554908011
Literature.
Electronic books.
PR9199.3.M33413
813.54
subverting the lyric : essays. - 1 online resource (251 pages)
Front Cover -- Spine -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Dubliners: Irish Utaniki -- 2 Not Exactly Two Cents' Worth: jwcurry's 1cent -- 3 What's Love Got to Do with It? Margaret Christakos' wipe.under.a.love and Excessive Love Prostheses -- 4 Train Journal: Vancouver-Toronto -- 5 A Life Built Up in Poems: Intersections with Some of George Bowering's Lines -- 6 Yes, I Have Published a Lot of Stuff: A Dozen Reasons Why I Will Not Apologize: A Schizophrenic Text for a Talk I Will Probably Not Follow -- 7 Tads: An Appreciation -- 8 Sex at Thirty-One, Thirty-Eight, Forty-Five, Fifty- Two, et cetera -- 9 A Displacement in Reading: Meredith Quartermain's The Eye-Shift of Surface and Other Writing -- 10 Jon Paul Fiorentino's Transcona, Winnipeg, and the Poetics of Failure -- 11 The Trouble with Normal: Breathing Fire 2, Pissing Ice, and the State of Canadian Poetry -- 12 One Selected, Two Selected: Changing on the Fly: The Best Lyric Poems of George Bowering -- 13 Some Notes on Narrative and the Long Poem: A Sequence of Sequences -- 14 Barry McKinnon's North: Opening Up The Centre -- 15 Notes on a day book -- 16 no more capital capitals: notes on The Ottawa City Project -- Acknowledgements.
From one of the most prolific and engaged book reviewers in Canada over the past 15 years, this collection of essays and reviews showcases the literary insight of rob mclennan. The works of such Canadian poets as George Bowering, Margaret Christakos, and Barry McKinnon are addressed and analyzed, as is the status of Canadian poetry as a whole. Mclennan's own investigations into the craft of writing are uncovered as well. Strikingly innovative and refreshingly communal, this compilation works as a whole to demonstrate how mainstream Canadian literature can be reconciled with the art of fringe authors.
9781554908011
Literature.
Electronic books.
PR9199.3.M33413
813.54
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