Subverting the Lyric: Essays

Copyright......Page 6
Dedication\n......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Introduction\n......Page 13
1 Dubliners: Irish Utaniki \n......Page 15
2 Not Exactly Two Cents’ Worth: jwcurry’s 1cent \n......Page 25
3 What’s Love Got to Do with It? Margaret Christakos’ wipe.under.a.love and Excessive Love Prostheses\n......Page 39
4 Train Journal: Vancouver–Toronto\n......Page 49
5 A Life Built Up in Poems: Intersections with Some of George Bowering’s Lines\n......Page 67
6 Yes, I Have Published a Lot of Stuff: A Dozen Reasons Why I Will Not Apologize: A Schizophrenic Text for a Talk I Will Probably Not Follow\n......Page 79
7 Tads: An Appreciation\n......Page 87
8 Sex at Thirty-One, Thirty-Eight, Forty-Five, Fifty- Two, et cetera\n......Page 99
9 A Displacement in Reading: Meredith Quartermain’s The Eye-Shift of Surface and Other Writing\n......Page 117
10 Jon Paul Fiorentino’s Transcona, Winnipeg, and the Poetics of Failure\n......Page 127
11 The Trouble with Normal: Breathing Fire 2, Pissing Ice, and the State of Canadian Poetry\n......Page 145
12 One Selected, Two Selected: Changing on the Fly: The Best Lyric Poems of George Bowering\n......Page 157
13 Some Notes on Narrative and the Long Poem: A Sequence of Sequences\n......Page 169
14 Barry McKinnon’s North: Opening Up The Centre \n......Page 185
15 Notes on a day book \n......Page 211
16 no more capital capitals: notes on The Ottawa City Project\n......Page 217
Acknowledgements\n......Page 247