Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988

Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged...
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Author: Eric Schmaltz
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Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 by Schmaltz, Eric

Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988

$227.24

Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988

$227.24
Author: Eric Schmaltz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art, sculpture, installation, and performance. They called it "borderblur."

Borderblur Poetics traces the emergence and proliferation of this node of poetic activity, an avant-garde movement comprising concrete poetry, sound poetry, and kinetic poetry, practiced by poets and artists like bpNichol, bill bissett, Judith Copithorne, Steve McCaffery, Penn Kemp, Ann Rosenberg, Gerry Shikatani, Shaunt Basmajian, among others.

Author Eric Schmaltz demonstrates how these poets formed an alternative tradition, one that embraced intermediality to challenge the hegemony of Canadian literature established during the heydays of cultural nationalism. He shows the importance of intermediality as a driving cultural force and how its proliferation significantly altered Canadian cultural expression. Drawing on a combination of archival research, historical analysis, and literary criticism, Borderblur Poetics adds significant nuance to theories and criticisms of Canadian literature.



Author: Eric Schmaltz
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 08/15/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781773854564

About the Author
Eric Schmaltz is Writer-on-the-Grounds in the Department of English at York University's Glendon College, where he teaches and coordinates the Certificate in Creative Writing Across Contexts. He is editor of Returning: Selected Arrangements of Judith Copithorne and co-editor of I Want to Tell You Love: A Critical Edition by bill bissett and Milton Acorn.

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