Gregory Betts, Christian Bök

Broschiertes Buch

Avant Canada

Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries

Herausgeber: Betts, Gregory; Canada

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Gregory Betts is the Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University and the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. He is the author of Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations (2013) as well as six books of experimental poetry. He is currently the artistic director of the Festival of Readers in St. Catharines. Christian Bök won the Griffin Poetry Prize for his book Eunoia. He is currently working on The Xenotext, a project that requires him to encode a poem into the genome of a microbe capable of thriving in any inhospitable environment. Bök is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada, and he teaches at Charles Darwin University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9781771123525
• ISBN-10: 1771123524
• Artikelnr.: 49214795