List of Figures
I INTRODUCTION
1 Gregory Betts and Christian Bök—Time for the Avant-Garde in Canada
II PROLOGUE
2 Lisa Robertson—The Collective
3 Liz Howard—Against Assimilation I Rose into Poetry
III THE CENTENNIAL
4 Kristine Smitka—The Sublation of Obduracy: Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Marketing of Beautiful Losers
5 Stephen Cain—“A Vision in the UofT Stacks”: bpNichol in the Library
IV CONCRETE POLITICS
6 Julia Polyck-O’Neill—Words With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts
7 Mike Borkent—Post/Avant Comics: bpNichol’s Material Poetics and Comics Art Manifestos
8 Eric Schmaltz—A Field Guide to North Concrete: Identification Chart
9 Kelly Mark—National and Time
10 Kaie Kellough—Continents
V LANGUAGE WRITING
11 Michael Roberson—Transformation or Resistance: The Kootenay School of Writing in Context
12 Kit Dobson—A Poetics of Neoliberalism
13 Dorothy Trujillo Lusk—Sleek Vinyl Drill
14 Erín Moure—Pillage 12 (“Anaximenes”)
15 Donato Mancini—If Violence (Hey You)
VI IDENTITY WRITING
16 Myra Bloom—Messy Confessions: Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be?
17 Sonnet L’Abbé—Erasures from the Territories Called Canada: Sharpening the Gaze at White Backgrounds
18 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson—caribou ghosts & untold stories
19 Lee Maracle—Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel
20 Annharte—cum cum how cum dat cums around even from behind
VII COPYLEFT POLITICS
21 Katie L. Price—A ≠ A: The Potential for a Pataphysical Poetics in Dan Farrell’s The Inkblot Record
22 Darren Wershler—Everyday Practice Before and After Conceptual Writing
23 Derek Beaulieu—Prose of the TransCanada
24 Moez Surani—1988
25 Dani Spinosa—Anxious Influence: Reading John Cage Theoretically
VIII EPILOGUE
26 André Alexis—On Amanda PL’s Cancelled Exhibit
27 An Interview with Jordan Abel—A Line Can Be Drawn
IX AFTER MATTER
Notes and Acknowledgements
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index