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.
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- Includes bibliographical references
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- 811.009
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781459308718 1894663349
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- PR9190.2
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- S53 2002eb
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Table of Contents
- Side/lines 4
- introduction: rob mclennan 10
- Notes and Slips Retrieved from Various of My Works, with Reference to My Poetics 12
- four poems 19
- A Garish Simulacrum of Being Alive 23
- Bottle Episode 27
- poetics statement: problems in composition 36
- theory does people: Letter to Pierre Garnier 1963 38
- an object in vision: Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry (1958) 39
- A Prose is a Prose is a Prose is a 40
- from flicker 44
- Poetics Statement 53
- from Arcadian Suite 57
- from Elabouration 58
- from GAS-FOOD-LODGING 60
- from Double Helix 62
- Into the Ocean 63
- from A More Tender Ocean 67
- Company 70
- en train de: (his little fraught patriation of forms 76
- Self-Interview 81
- from The Reinventing Wheel: A Turntable Poem 87
- Bluer Blues 89
- "because capitalism makes the nouns / and burns the connections": Notes Towards an Articulatory Poetics 93
- Happy Locally, Sad Geopolitically 99
- Damsel in Da Dress 109
- Soul Man 112
- Notes Towards an Operational Poetics 115
- from Centences 117
- Ambit. Ardour. Orders: A Poetics of Polymedial Pasties 119
- Happy the Ghost-Boy 128
- PULP GIMP: A POETICS 135
- five stories 139
- Poser 145
- (The Function & Field) Of Speech & Language 154
- two poems 160
- from The Book of Knowledge 163
- Sweet Poetry or Mystery Meat? 166
- three poems 171
- Ottawa snapshot: a quick poetics 174
- Juliet is the name of a wound 177
- from stone, book one 177
- from the other side of the mouth 179
- Holding Pattern 181
- two poems 182
- Good Golly Miss Molly: An Autobiographical Poetics 186
- from Heroes 189
- Poem as Collage of the Real 194
- two poems 201
- COPPING: The Double Voice and Jazz Ethics 205
- Centens by JC Wilcke 212
- Berlin 224
- M'ore 224
- A poem is not (meant to be) a pretty thing 225
- First Person Plural 226
- Polysémique 227
- from Clutch 229
- Writing the Eye (a game of cat's cradle) 232
- from The Tourniquet Vanish 236
- Uses, Not Muses 240
- from Survivial: A Strobic Guide 243
- My Meteoric Rise to Obscurity—A Treatise On the Merits of Lexiconjury, Deliriomancy and Icelandic Breakfast Foods 250
- Secrets of the Occult Science of Torpor Vigilism (A Brief Lexical Introduction) 256
- from Spiral Agitator 258
- The Gated Now (Three Excerpts) 262
- FIRST WORDS 264
- author bios 266
- related (and recommended) reading 273
- acknowledgements 274
