Fragmenting Body etc (Salt Modern Poets) - Softcover

Barbour, Douglas

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9781876857028: Fragmenting Body etc (Salt Modern Poets)

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ISBN 10: 1876857021 ISBN 13: 9781876857028

Publisher: Salt Publishing, 2000

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This is a selection of poetry sequences by well-known poet and critic Douglas Barbour. Many of the sequences in Fragmenting Body etc were written in response to particular events or texts, but are not intended to be reports or descriptions of them. Included are an elegiac sequence for bpNichol, a poetic response to the art of Liz Ingram, a poem written daily during the Gulf War, and the long title poem exploring aspects of what we mean by the body in the world. Each sequence in Fragmenting Body etc explores the possibilities of language as it attempts to do something different in an innovative manner.

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Barbour composes with the trained ear of a musician who’s got something to say before the lights go out forever. (Roy Miki)

About the Author:

Douglas Barbour lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He teaches creative writing, modern and Canadian literature at the University of Alberta. His books include: Visible Visions: Selected Poems (NeWest 1984) and Story for a Saskatchewan Night (rdcpress, 1989). He has published critical volumes on bpNichol, and Michael Ondaatje (Twayne, 1993). With Stephen Scobie he performs in the sound poetry duo Re: Sounding, and edited the CD, Carnivocal: A Celebration of Sound Poetry (Red Deer Press, 1999).

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