Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-330) and index.
Contents:
After matter. I. Introduction. A line can be drawn / An interview with Jordan Abel -- Christian Bök -- II. Prologue. The collective / Lisa Robertson -- Against assimilation I rose into poetry / Liz Howard -- III. The centennial. The sublation of obduracy: Nationalism and the avant-garde marketing of Beautiful losers / Kristine Smitka -- "A vision in the UofT stacks: bpNichol in the library / Stephen Cain -- IV. Concrete poetics. Words with(out) syntax: Reconsidering concrete poetry: An exhibition in four parts / Julia Polyck-O'Neill -- Post/avant comics: bpNichols material poetics and comics art manifestos / Mike Borkent -- A field guide to north concrete: Identification chart / Eric Schmaltz -- National and time / Kelly Mark -- Continents / Kaie Kellough -- V. Language writing. Transformation or resistance: The Kootenay school of writing in context / Michael Robertson -- A poetics of neoliberalism / Kit Dobson -- Sleek vinyl drill / Dorothy Trujillo Lusk -- Pillage 12 ("Anaximenes") / Erín Moure -- If violence (hey you) / Donato Mancini -- VI. Identity writing. Messy confessions: Sheila Heti's How should a person be? / Myra Bloom -- Erasures from the territories called Canada: Sharpening the gaze at white backgrounds / Sonnet L'Abbé -- caribou ghosts & untold stories / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Bobbi Lee, Indian rebel / Lee Maracle -- cum cum how cum dat cums around even from behind / Annharte -- VII. Copyleft poetics. A ≠ A: The potential for a pataphysical poetics in Dan Farrell's The inkblot record / Katie L. Price -- Everyday practice before and after conceptual writing / Darren Weshler -- Prose of the TransCanada / Derek Beaulieu -- 1988 / Moez Surani -- Anxious influence: Reading John Cage theoretically / Dani Spinosa -- VIII. Epilogue. On Amanda PL's cancelled exhibit / André Alexis -- A line can be drawn / An interview with Jordan Abel -- After matter.
Summary:
"It's a collection of original essays and supporting creative works on an array of Canadian literary avant-garde movements from the past 50 years. Featuring 28 writers and critics in the field, it offers an overview of the past, present, and future of Canadian avant-garde writing. It's complete survey of contemporary avant-garde activity in Canada. It explores the intersection of Canadian avant-gardisms and Indigenous decolonization. Finally, it discusses controversial topics such as the relationship between Canadian and Indigenous literature, cultural appropriation, gender, and the Conceptual Writing movement."-- Provided by publisher.
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