Public Poetics

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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

• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 18 juin 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781771120494
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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P UBLIC P OETICS
TransCanada 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 Trans-Canada series is to publish forward-thinking critical interventions that investigate these paradigm shifts in interdisciplinary ways.
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Smaro Kamboureli, Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature, Department of English, University of Toronto
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P UBLIC P OETICS
Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics
Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn, Editors
This 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 financial 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 Er n 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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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Public Poetics
Erin Wunker and Travis V. Mason
S ECTION I [ T HE C ONTEMPORARY F IELD]
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, Manifestos
John Stout
P OETRY I
The Sturdiness
by Sina Queyras
The Sexual Politics of Bluestockings
by Tanis MacDonald
Routine
by Amanda Jernigan
Volume
by Shannon Maguire
September Still
by Rob Winger
The inevitability of gravity on glass
by Vanessa Lent
S ECTION II [ T HE E MBEDDED F IELD]
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
P OETRY II
Hungry
by Kevin McNeilly
Potter s Hearing Is Not Khadr s Ruling
by Kathy Mac
The House Which Is Not Extension but Dispositio Itself (from Insecession , an echolation of Secession , by Chus Pato)
by Er n Moure
The Avian Flu
by Brad Cran
S ECTION III [ E XPANDING THE F IELD]
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
Er n 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
Nota bene ; or, notes toward a poetics of work
Bart Vautour and Christl Verduyn
Contributors
Index
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 Program. We would also like to thank Rob Summerby-Murray, former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Dalhousie University, for his support. At Mount Allison University, we would like to thank the Centre for Canadian Studies, the English Department, and Barkley Flemming (former VP Research and Academic) for their support of the initial Public Poetics conference. We would also like to thank Brittany Jones and Elaine Simpson for all their expert help, which kept the sailing smooth and on course.
derek beaulieu, the reigning poet laureate of Calgary, has given us his support and work from the very beginning. From his attendance and participation as a keynote speaker at the conference, to his generosity as an artist willing to share his work, derek embodies for us one crucial iteration of public poetics in action. It is his poem Prose of the TransCanada that graces the cover of this collection, and it is beautiful, blue, and modified because derek opened his work up to collaboration with designers and continually said yes when we asked is it okay? Thank you, derek.
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