Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poets (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) - Softcover

McCaffery, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810117908 ISBN 13: 9780810117907

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2001

Synopsis

In these essays McCaffrey works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice - to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical principles against which it must be read.

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About the Author

STEVEN McCAFFERY is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. He currently holds the Gray Chair at SUNY Buffalo (Amherst). McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull. He moved to Toronto in 1968. In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and bpNichol, forming the sound-poetry group, The Four Horsemen. McCaffery's poetry attempts to break language from the logic of syntax and structure to create a purely emotional response. He has created three-dimensional structures of words and has released a number of sound and video works, often in collaboration with other poets.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810117908
• ISBN 13: 9780810117907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328