Side Lines: A New Canadian Poetics

Side/lines......Page 4
introduction: rob mclennan......Page 10
Notes and Slips Retrieved from Various of My Works, with Reference to My Poetics......Page 12
four poems......Page 19
A Garish Simulacrum of Being Alive......Page 23
Bottle Episode......Page 27
poetics statement: problems in composition......Page 36
theory does people: Letter to Pierre Garnier 1963......Page 38
an object in vision: Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry (1958)......Page 39
A Prose is a Prose is a Prose is a......Page 40
from flicker......Page 44
Poetics Statement......Page 53
from Arcadian Suite......Page 57
from Elabouration......Page 58
from GAS-FOOD-LODGING......Page 60
from Double Helix......Page 62
Into the Ocean......Page 63
from A More Tender Ocean......Page 67
Company......Page 70
en train de: (his little fraught patriation of forms......Page 76
Self-Interview......Page 81
from The Reinventing Wheel: A Turntable Poem......Page 87
Bluer Blues......Page 89
\"because capitalism makes the nouns / and burns the connections\": Notes Towards an Articulatory Poetics......Page 93
Happy Locally, Sad Geopolitically......Page 99
Damsel in Da Dress......Page 109
Soul Man......Page 112
Notes Towards an Operational Poetics......Page 115
from Centences......Page 117
Ambit. Ardour. Orders: A Poetics of Polymedial Pasties......Page 119
Happy the Ghost-Boy......Page 128
PULP GIMP: A POETICS......Page 135
five stories......Page 139
Poser......Page 145
(The Function & Field) Of Speech & Language......Page 154
two poems......Page 160
from The Book of Knowledge......Page 163
Sweet Poetry or Mystery Meat?......Page 166
three poems......Page 171
Ottawa snapshot: a quick poetics......Page 174
from stone, book one......Page 177
from the other side of the mouth......Page 179
Holding Pattern......Page 181
two poems......Page 182
Good Golly Miss Molly: An Autobiographical Poetics......Page 186
from Heroes......Page 189
Poem as Collage of the Real......Page 194
two poems......Page 201
COPPING: The Double Voice and Jazz Ethics......Page 205
Centens by JC Wilcke......Page 212
M\'ore......Page 224
A poem is not (meant to be) a pretty thing......Page 225
First Person Plural......Page 226
Polysémique......Page 227
from Clutch......Page 229
Writing the Eye (a game of cat\'s cradle)......Page 232
from The Tourniquet Vanish......Page 236
Uses, Not Muses......Page 240
from Survivial: A Strobic Guide......Page 243
My Meteoric Rise to Obscurity—A Treatise On the Merits of Lexiconjury, Deliriomancy and Icelandic Breakfast Foods......Page 250
Secrets of the Occult Science of Torpor Vigilism (A Brief Lexical Introduction)......Page 256
from Spiral Agitator......Page 258
The Gated Now (Three Excerpts)......Page 262
FIRST WORDS......Page 264
author bios......Page 266
related (and recommended) reading......Page 273
acknowledgements......Page 274