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Minimalist poetry for maximalist times. Sheets: Typewriter Works
extends the minimalist explorations of Cameron Anstee's first
collection, Book of Annotations. Prompted by receiving the Olivetti
Lettera 30 typewriter that belonged to poet William Hawkins after
his death in 2016, the works in this book explore how small poems
operate through the freedoms and constraints of the typewriter as
both a decaying machine and a mode of composition. Through
engagement with writers and artists like Jiri Valoch, Barbara
Caruso, Leroy Gorman, Cia Rinne, William Hawkins, Dani Spinosa,
Kate Siklosi, and Norman McLaren, Sheets: Typewriter Works
re-embeds the minimalist poem in the typewritten page.
Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet brings together an
international cast of critics, scholars, and writers to examine,
re-examine, and honour the celebrated author's immense significance
in the twenty-first century, and what it means to be Canadian and
part of the country's literary landscape. Original essays by Dennis
Cooley, Phil Hall, Nicole Markotic, Aritha van Herk, and Rudy
Wiebe, among others. The author of nine novels, thirteen books of
poetry, and seven non-fiction volumes, Robert Kroetsch (1927-2011)
was a major figure in the development and history of literature in
Canada. He won the Governor General's Award for Fiction for The
Studhorse Man (1969) and was shortlisted for the Governor General's
Award for Poetry for The Hornbooks of Rita K. (2001). He received
honorary degrees from the University of Winnipeg (1983) and the
University of Alberta (1997), and was made an Officer of the Order
of Canada (2004). Robert Kroetsch stands as a seminal figure in the
Canadian literary landscape. In his early fiction he introduced
postmodern techniques into the mainstream of Canadian fiction. He
then moved on to writing poetry while still writing fiction, and
created a new vision for poets across the country, defining the
nature of the poetic experience by searching out the roots of his
place in the Canadian landscape. Robert Kroetsch: Essayist,
Novelist, Poet is a timely reminder of the immense significance
that Kroetsch holds in the twenty-first-century understanding of
what it means to be Canadian and part of the country's literary
landscape. This book is published in English. - Robert Kroetsch
(1927-2011) est une figure majeure de l'histoire et du
developpement de la litterature au Canada. Son roman intitule The
Studhorse Man (1969) lui a permis de remporter le Prix litteraire
du Gouverneur general dans la categorie roman et nouvelles ; par
ailleurs, son recueil de poesie, intitule The Hornbooks of Rita K.
(2001), a figure sur la liste des finalistes du Prix litteraire du
Gouverneur general dans la categorie poesie. De plus, il s'est vu
decerner un doctorat honoris causa par deux universites
canadiennes, l'Universite de Winnipeg (1983) et l'Universite de
l'Alberta (1997), et il a ete fait officier de l'Ordre du Canada
(2004). Robert Kroetsch est une figure marquante du paysage
litteraire canadien. Dans ses premiers ouvrages de fiction, il a
introduit des techniques de narration postmodernes dans le courant
dominant et jusqu'alors plutot conventionnel de la fiction
canadienne. Il a ensuite entrepris d'ecrire de la poesie tout en
poursuivant son oeuvre romanesque. Ce faisant, il a su creer une
nouvelle vision pour les poetes canadiens ; il a, entre autres,
defini la nature de l'experience poetique en se questionnant sur le
sens de l'identite canadienne et sur la place qu'il occupait dans
le paysage litteraire canadien. L'ouvrage intitule Robert Kroetsch
: romancier, poete et essayiste constitue un rappel opportun de
l'importance considerable de cet auteur majeur, qui nous a permis
de mieux comprendre ce que cela signifiait d'etre Canadien au XXIe
siecle et d'appartenir au paysage litteraire canadien. Ce livre est
publie en anglais.
Born in 1940 in Ottawa, Ontario, legendary poet and musician
William Hawkins is one of the most important artists to emerge from
Canada's capital. He published six books from 1964-1974, attended
the 1963 UBC Summer Poetry Seminar, organized poetry readings at
Ottawa's infamous Le Hibou Coffeehouse, wrote songs and performed
in bands (The Children, Heavenly Blue), and published widely in
Canada's most important little magazines of the 1960s before
retreating into silence in the 1970s and working as a cab driver
until his retirement in 2012. The Collected Poems of William
Hawkins gathers Hawkins's complete output. His books are printed
alongside previously unpublished and uncollected poems including
early magazine publications, the long-lost book Sweet and Sour
Nothings, poems from the time of his extended silence, as well as
all work produced since his gradual re-appearance in the 1990s.
This volume presents the generous, defiant, idiosyncratic, and
compelling work of William Hawkins in its entirety, making possible
the renewed attention that this significant body of work deserves.
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