The Fabulous Op - Couverture souple

Barwin, Gary; Betts, Gregory

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1763556948 ISBN 13 : 9781763556942

Editeur : Downingfield Press, 2024

Synopsis

The Fabulous Op is a vibrant, collaborative poem born from a unique experiment: the authors invited their social media followers to share lines of poetry they hold close to heart. Through this fusion of voices, the book explores how the literary canon-like DNA-mutates and evolves, shaped by the lived experiences of those who carry it forward. The result is a sweeping, celebratory journey through poetic history, where fragments of a shared cultural legacy collide and intertwine, revealing how words can transform, disrupt, and reawaken. This work doesn't just reflect literary culture; it revels in its complexity, breathing fresh life into the canon with every line.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of 26 books including Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy which won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and Bird Arsonist (with Tom Prime) His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates won the Leacock Medal for Humour and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was long listed for Canada Reads.

Gregory Betts is a poet and professor at Brock University. His work consistently explores concrete, constrained, or collaborative poetics. He is the author of 11 books of poetry, including recent titles such as Foundry (Ireland 2021), The Fabulous Op (Ireland 2021, with Gary Barwin), and Sweet Forme (Australia 2020). His poems have been stencilled into the sidewalks of St. Catharines, Ontario and selected by the SETI Institute to be implanted into the surface of the moon. He performed at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, as part of the Cultural Olympiad, and has travelled and performed extensively across Canada, the US, and Europe. He is the curator of the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive, and author of the award-winning scholarly monographs Finding Nothing: the VanGardes 1959-1975 and Avant-Garde Canadian Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Downingfield Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1763556948
• ISBN 13: 9781763556942
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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