To the Barricades - Softcover

Collis, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889227470 ISBN 13: 9780889227477

Publisher: Talonbooks, 2012

Synopsis

To the Barricades moves back and forth between historical and contemporary scenes of revolt, from nineteenth-century Parisian street barricades to twenty-first-century occupations and street marches, shifting along the active seam between poetry and revolution. Avant-garde technique is donated to lyric ends, forming an anti-archive of the revolutionary record where words are bricks hurriedly thrown up as linguistic "barricades."

Stephen Collis is the author of five books of poetry, including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize–winning On the Material and three titles in the ongoing "Barricades Project." An activist and social critic, his writing on the Occupy movement is collected in Dispatches from the Occupation (Talonbooks, 2012).

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Collis is the author of five books of poetry, including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize winning On the Material (Talonbooks, 2010) and three parts of the ongoing Barricades Project”: Anarchive (New Star, 2005), The Commons (Talonbooks, 2008), and the forthcoming To the Barricades (2013). An activist and social critic, his writing on the Occupy movement is collected in Dispatches from the Occupation (Talonbooks, 2012).

Collis is also the author of two book-length studies, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks, 2007) and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism (ELS Editions, 2006), as well as the editor, with Graham Lyons, of Reading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation (Iowa University Press, 2012). He teaches contemporary poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University, where he was a 2011/12 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow.

About this edition

• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0889227470
• ISBN 13: 9780889227477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160