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Author:   Bart Vautour ,  Erin Wunker ,  Travis V. Mason ,  Christl Verduyn
Publisher:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imprint:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.610kg
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9781771120470

ISBN 10:   1771120479
Pages:   375
Publication Date:   30 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics, edited by Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn Introduction: Public Poetics Erin Wunker and Travis V. Mason Section I: The Contemporary Field 1. Public Poet, Private Life: 20 Riffs on the Dream of a Communal Self Sina Queyras 2. The Threat of Black Art, or, On Being Unofficially Banned in Canada El Jones 3. The Counter/Public in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of Poetry in Canada Tanis MacDonald 4. Writing the Body Politic: Feminist Poetics in the Twenty-First Century Heather Milne 5. Rewriting and Postmodern Poetics In Canada: Neo-Haikus, Neo-Sonnets, Neo-Lullabies, Manifestoes John Stout Poetry I The Sturdiness Sina Queyras The Sexual Politics of Bluestockings Tanis MacDonald Routine Amanda Jernigan Volume Shannon Maguire September Still Rob Winger The inevitability of gravity on glass Vanessa Lent Section II: The Embedded Field 6. The Ingeminate Eye: Peter Sanger's Public Poetics Amanda Jernigan 7. Reading for a Civic Public Poetic: Toronto in Raymond Souster's """"Ten Elephants on Yonge Street"""" and Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies Will Smith 8. To the Bone: The Instrumental Activism of Dionne Brand's Ossuaries Geordie Miller 9. Rearticulate, Renovate, Rebuild: Sachiko Murakami's Architectural Poetics of Community Emily Ballantyne 10. """"We jimmied the radio"""": Gillian Jerome, Brad Cran, and the Lyric in Public Kevin McNeilly Poetry II Hungry Kevin McNeilly Potter's Hearing Is Not Khadr's Ruling Kathy Mac The House Which Is Not Extension but Dispositio Itself (from Insecession, and echolation of Secession, by Chus Pato) from Insecession by Erín Moure The Avian Flu Brad Cran Section III: Expanding the Field 11. Formal Protest: Reconsidering the Poetics of Canadian Pamphleteering Andrea Hasenbank 12. Radio Poetics: Publishing and Poetry on CBC's Anthology Katherine McLeod 13. The Public Reading: Call for a New Paradigm Erín Moure and Karis Shearer 14. We Are the Amp: A Poetics of the Human Microphone Michael Nardone 15. Canadian Public Poetics: Negotiating Belonging in a Globalizing World Diana Brydon"

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Bart Vautour is an assistant professor at Dalhousie University. His research considers Canadian cultural production, literary history, textual studies, and modernism. He is the editor of a critical edition of Ted Allan's Spanish Civil War novel, This Time a Better Earth (2015). He co-directs, with Emily Robins Sharpe, the Canada and the Spanish Civil War project. Erin Wunker is the chair of the board of the national non-profit social justice organization Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (CWILA) and co-founder, writer, and managing editor of the feminist academic blog Hook and Eye: Fast Feminism, Slow Academe. She teaches Canadian literature and culture at Dalhousie University. Her book The Feminist Killjoy Handbook will be published in the fall of 2016. Travis V. Mason teaches ecocriticism and postcolonial and Canadian literatures. He received both a Mellon and Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is the author of Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay (WLU Press, 2013). Christl Verduyn is a professor of English and Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University, where she holds the Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies and is the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. Most recent publications include Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography, co-edited with Eleanor Ty (WLU Press, 2008), Archival Narratives for Canada: Re-Telling Stories in a Changing Landscape, co-edited with Kathleen Garay (2011), and Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis, co-edited with Jane Koustas (2012).

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