Poets talk : conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Mouré, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen and Fred Wah / Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butling, Pauline.

Contributor:

Rudy, Susan, 1961-

Series:

Currents (Edmonton, Alta.)

CuRRents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, Canadian--20th century--Interviews.

Poets, Canadian.

Poetics.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Poetry--Authorship.

Poetry.

Canadian poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Interview.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xvii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2005.

Summary:

Seven poets of diverse region, gender, sexual orientation, race, and generation; seven poets linked by experiment and opposition. Robert Kroetsch discusses postmodernism's history, Fred Wah talks about ethnic hybridity, and Dionne Brand muses on postcolonial struggle and community. Erin Moure encourages "excessiveness," while Daphne Marlatt speaks of "salvaging." On writing, poetics, and culture, Marie Annharte Barker and Jeff Derksen share their personal perspectives and experiences. Poets Talk brings new insights to the value of inspiration, imagination, and poetic re-invention. Susan Rudy and Pauline Butling's provocative interviews with seven prominent Canadian poets offer a candid first-hand account of poetic innovation and its place in Western cultural tradition. Their poetic conversations explore the interfaces of self and place, societal critique and art, ideology and language.

Contents:

1. "Historicizing postmodernism" with Robert Kroetsch / Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy

2. On salvaging : a conversation with Daphne Marlatt / Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy

3. "Why not be excessive?" : a conversation with Erin Moure / Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy

4. Dionne brand on struggle and community, possibility and poetry / Pauline Butling

5. "I make sense of my world through writing" : an interview with Marie Annharte Baker / Pauline Butling

6. A conversation on "cultural poetics" with Jeff Derksen / Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy

7. Fred Wah on hybridity and Asianicity in Canada / Susan Rudy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index.

ISBN:

0888644310

9780888644312

OCLC:

57208685