Verse and worse : selected and new poems of Steve McCaffery, 1989-2009 / selected, with an introduction, by Darren Wershler and an afterword by Steve McCaffery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCaffery.

Contributor:

Wershler-Henry, Darren S. (Darren Sean), 1966-

Steve..

Series:

Laurier poetry series.

LPS, Laurier poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McCaffery, Steve--Criticism and interpretation.

McCaffery, Steve.

Authors, Canadian--20th century--History and criticism.

Authors, Canadian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (91 p.)

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009 presents texts from the last two decades of work by Steve McCaffery, one of the most influential and innovative of contemporary poets. The volume focuses on selections from McCaffery’s major texts, including The Black Debt, Theory of Sediment, The Cheat of Words, and Slightly Left of Thinking, but also features a substantial number of previously ungathered poems. As playful as they are cerebral, McCaffery’s poems stage an incessant departure from conventional lyrical and narrative methods of making meaning. For those encountering McCaffery’s work for the first time as well as for those who have followed the twists and turns of his astonishingly heterogeneous poetic trajectory over the past four decades—this volume is essential reading.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Foreword

Biographical Note

Introduction

A Theory of the Lyric ©

from Teachable Texts

from Theory of Sediment: The Curve to Its Answer

A Child’s History of Rhetoric Caught as It Happens

from The Entries

A Few Donuts from an Hommagiste or: Bad Modernism

from Some Versions of Pastoral

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

Coleridge in Calgary

Ephemera

from Lag

from An Effect of Cellophane

Oedipus Meets the Abstract Machine

Suggestion but No Insult

The Dangers of Poetry

The Lone Ranger in Arcadia

Restricted Translation with Imperfect Level Shift

The Poem as a Thing to See

The View from Here

Tyrolean Night

A Map

Correlata for a Cryptogram

The Logic of Six

First Vico Meditation

Second Vico Meditation

Digital Poetics

Prior to Meaning

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Books in the Laurier Poetry Series

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii-xiv).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612534317

9781554582112

1554582113

9781282534315

1282534319

9781554582983

1554582989

OCLC:

647922205