Public Poetics

Description

Public Poetics is a collection of essays and poems that address some of the most pressing issues of the discipline in the twenty-first century. The collection brings together fifteen original essays addressing “publics,” “poetry,” and “poetics” from the situated space of Canada while simultaneously troubling the notion of the nation as a stable term. It asks hard questions about who and what count as “publics” in Canada. Critical essays stand alongside poetry as visual and editorial reminders of the cross-pollination required in thinking through both poetry and poetics.

Public Poetics is divided into three thematic sections. The first contains essays surveying poetics in the present moment through the lens of the public/private divide, systematic racism in Canada, the counterpublic, feminist poetics, and Canadian innovations on postmodern poetics. The second section contains author-specific studies of public poets. The final section contains essays that use innovative renderings of “poetics” as a means of articulating alternative communities and practices. Each section is paired with a collection of original poetry by ten contemporary Canadian poets.

This collection attends to the changing landscape of critical discourse around poetry and poetics in Canada, and will be of use to teachers and students of poetry and poetics.

Sujets

• Canadian literature
• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 08 juin 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781771120487
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

Public PoeticsTransCanada Series
The study of Canadian literature can no longer take place in isolation
from larger external forces. Pressures of multiculturalism put emphasis
upon discourses of citizenship and security, while market-driven factors
increasingly shape the publication, dissemination, and reception of
Canadian writing. The persistent questioning of the Humanities has invited a
rethinking of the disciplinary and curricular structures within which the
literature is taught, while the development of area and diaspora studies
has raised important questions about the tradition. The goal of the
TransCanada series is to publish forward-thinking critical interventions that
investigate these paradigm shifts in interdisciplinary ways.
Series editor:
Smaro Kamboureli, Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature,
Department of English, University of Toronto
For more information, please contact:
Smaro Kamboureli
Professor, Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature
Department of English
University of Toronto
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Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
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Email: [e-mail] Poetics
Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics
Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason,
and Christl Verduyn, Editors
WILFRID LAURIER
UNIVERSITY PRESSThis book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and
Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the
fnancial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.
This work was supported by the Research Support Fund.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Public poetics : critical issues in Canadian poetry and poetics / Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason,
and Christl Verduyn, editors.
(TransCanada series)
Based on a conference held at Mount Allison University from September 20–23, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77112-047-0 (paperback).—ISBN 978-1-77112-049-4 (epub).—
ISBN 978-1-77112-048-7 (pdf)
1. Canadian poetry (English)—21st century—History and criticism—Congresses. 2. Poetry—Social
aspects—Canada—Congresses. 3. Poetics—Congresses. I. Verduyn, Christl, [date], editor II. Wunker, Erin,
1979–, editor III. Mason, Travis V., 1977–, editor IV. Vautour, Bart, [date], editor V. Series: TransCanada series
PS8155.1.P82 2015 C811’.609 C2015-902714-4
C2015-902715-2
Cover design by Martyn Schmoll. Front-cover image by derek beaulieu. Text design by Daiva Villa, Chris
Rowat Design.
“The House Which Is Not Extension but Dispositio Itself” is from Insecession by Erín Moure, published in one
volume with the Moure translation of Secession by Chus Pato (BookThug, 2014) and is reprinted by permission
of the author and BookThug. “Routine” is from All the Daylight Hours: Poems by Amanda Jernigan (Cormorant
Books, 2013) and is reprinted by permission of the author and Cormorant Books. “September Still” is from Old
Hat by Rob Winger (Nightwood Editions, 2014) and is reprinted by permission of the author and Nightwood
Editions.
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or call toll free to 1-800-893-5777. Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Public Poetics 1
Erin Wunker and Travis V. Mason
Section I [The Contemporary Field] 25
1 Public Poet, Private Life: 20 Riffs on the Dream of a Communal Self
Sina Queyras 27
2 The Threat of Black Art, or, On Being Unoffcially Banned
in Canada
El Jones 43
3 The Counter/Public in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of Poetry
in Canada
Tanis MacDonald 51
4 Writing the Body Politic: Feminist Poetics in the Twenty-First
Century
Heather Milne 65
5 Rewriting and Postmodern Poetics in Canada: Neo-Haikus,
Neo-Sonnets, Neo-Lullabies, Manifestos
John Stout 87
vvi contents
Poetry I 1 07
The Sturdiness
by Sina Queyras 10 9
The Sexual Politics of Bluestockings
by Tanis MacDonald 111
Routine by Amanda Jernigan 11 2
Volume by Shannon Maguire 1 14
September Still
by Rob Winger 1 16
The inevitability of gravity on glass
by Vanessa Lent 1 1 7
Section II [The Embedded Field] 11 9
6 The Ingeminate Eye: Peter Sanger’s Public Poetics
Amanda Jernigan 1 21
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 1 3 9
8 To the Bone: The Instrumental Activism of Dionne Brand’s
Ossuaries
Geordie Miller 15 9
9 Rearticulate, Renovate, Rebuild: Sachiko Murakami’s Architectural
Poetics of Community
Emily Ballantyne 1 7 7
10 “We jimmied the radio”: Gillian Jerome, Brad Cran, and the
Lyric in Public
Kevin McNeilly 19 9 contents vii
Poetry II 2 1 7
Hungry
by Kevin McNeilly 21 9
Potter’s Hearing Is Not Khadr’s Ruling
by Kathy Mac 220
The House Which Is Not Extension but Dispositio Itself
(from Insecession, an echolation of Secession, by Chus Pato)
by Erín Moure 223
The Avian Flu
by Brad Cran 225
Section III [Expanding the Field] 229
11 Formal Protest: Reconsidering the Poetics of Canadian
Pamphleteering
Andrea Hasenbank 2 3 1
12 Radio Poetics: Publishing and Poetry on CBC’s Anthology
Katherine McLeod 253
13 The Public Reading: Call for a New Paradigm
Erín Moure and Karis Shearer 2 71
14 We Are the Amp: A Poetics of the Human Microphone
Michael Nardone 289
15 Canadian Public Poetics: Negotiating Belonging in a
Globalizing World
Diana Brydon 3 1 3
Nota bene; or, notes toward a poetics of work . . .
Bart Vautour and Christl Verduyn 333
Contributors 3 4 1
Index 3 47This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements
Like many essay collections, this one started with a gathering of people
in one place. The Public Poetics conference took place in Sackville, New
Brunswick, in September 2012. Unlike many conferences, but characteristic
of so much that takes place in Sackville, the conference was a real
community effort that was made possible by people working in the university,
by the people who make arts and culture such an animated part of life in
Sackville, and by independent artists who gave of their time and talents.
We’d like to thank Paul Henderson, whose design savvy was visible on
our programs, posters, and what are likely still the most beautiful
conference bags around. We’ve since spotted Paul’s collaborative work with derek
beaulieu’s visual poetry being carried across Canada and internationally.
Thanks goes to Kaeli Cook, whose hand-painted birch tree pottery mugs,
which were made in her Sackville studio, accompanied attendees to their
homes across Canada and abroad. Without the support of the Vogue
Theatre and the Owens Art Gallery the poetic performances would not have
been accessible to so many conference goers and community members
alike, nor would they have happened in proximity to such beautiful
Atlantic Canadian art. Thanks, too, to the many friends who helped out. Especial
gratitude to El Jones, Ardath Whynacht, Tanya Davis, and Chris Luedecke,
who provided inspired performances at the Vogue Theatre before an
audience of engaged listeners.
Neither the conference nor this collection would have been possible
without institutional support. In particular, we’d like to acknowledge the
support received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council’s Connection