Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries Betts Gregory
Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard…
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Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field.The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde production: "Concrete Poetics," which accentuates the visual and material aspects of language; "Language Writing," which challenges the interconnection between words and things; "Identity Writing," which interrogates the self and its sociopolitical position; and "Copyleft Poetics," which undermines our habitual assumptions about the ownership of expression. A fifth section commemorates the importance of the Centennial in the 1960s at a time when avant-garde cultures in Canada