Constructive negativity : prize culture, evaluation, and dis/ability in Canadian poetry / Shane Neilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neilson, Shane, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry.

Canada.

People with disabilities, Writings of, Canadian.

Disabilities in literature.

Canadian poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Literary prizes--Canada.

Literary prizes.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Physical Description:

351 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Windsor, Ontario : Palimpsest Press, [2019]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Prizing the Culture: A Manual

1. All the Prizes Worth Having Are Dirty

2. Canon Confessions

3. A Dummy Model: A Review of John Timpane and Maureen Watts's Poetry for Dummies: A Reference for the Rest of Us and Five Years of Tips

4. Reviewing Book Reviewing

5. The Encircling Circus: Prize Culture, Michael Harris, and the Montreal Hagiography Machine

6. Pricks Grand Prix: Origin's and Early Titles in the PQL Criticism Series

7. Rules of Thumb for an Aspiring Critic

8. Metaphor, Ho!: A Review of Jeramy Dodds's Crabwise to the Hounds

9. The Manifesto of Fervourism

10. The Mock-Love Poetry of Al Purdy: Misogyny, Nation, and Progress

11. Good Idea Gone Bad: A Review of Michael Lista's The Scarborough

12. The "Scholarly Turn Away": The Shift from Evaluative to Descriptive Criticism in The Fiddlehead

13. Open Letter to Canadian Poets: The Way of the Tithe

pt. TWO Dis/ability

14. Prefatory

15. Visibilizing: The AbleHamilton Poetry Collective

16. Without Compromise: An Interview with Shane Neilson

17. "Look Homeward, Exile" as Coordinates Upon the Essayist: A Love Story

18. Curating Affective Spaces in Poetry as Difficulty Traps: A Panel Presentation at Canadian Writers' Summit 2018

19. Waiting for Good: Transgression, Down-Shouting, and Ethical Readership

20. The Growth and Development of Play: An Anthology of Poems About Children

21. Lengthening the Short Street

22. PC Auctioneerings, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Edition: Debut as Cattle Call

23. Ableism in Diversity Central

24. Sunglasses in Zahar: Earle Birney's "David"

25. An Anthem for the Unwell: An Interview with James Lindsay

26. Let's Not Have a Drink: Ableism, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

27. Canadian Poetry and Pain

28. "Hensol" by Kerry-Lee Powell from Inheritance

29. Paternity and Poetry: A Review of Kevin Spenst's Ignite

30. Wordgathering Interview with Shane Neilson, Ally Fleming, and Roxanna Bennett of Hamilton Arts and Letters magazine

31. Alden Nowlan, the Schizotypal Poet

32. Beauty is Invisible Too

33. Distress)appearing: A Review of American Sentencing by Jen Karetnick

34. Di Saverio Sings.

ISBN:

9781989287347

1989287344

OCLC:

1096462792

Publisher Number:

99985819970