Side/lines : a new Canadian poetics
Rob McLennan (Editor)
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
Electronic books
1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
9781897414101, 1897414102
288122661
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