Posts Tagged ‘George Bowering’
Attention Span 2011 | Meredith Quartermain
George Bowering | My Darling Nellie Gray | Talonbooks | 2010
Political. Playful. A textbook in procedural possibilities. Also thoughtful and heartfelt.
Sheila Heti | How Should a Person Be? | Anansi | 2010
I think of this as a conceptual novel as all the characters are real people. It’s constantly making us think about arbitrary boundaries between fiction and “the real.” Questioning and extending the form of the novel, too.
Eileen Myles | Inferno: A Poet’s Novel| OR Books | 2010
Cross-cuts are dynamite, I wrote across the top of page 76, the chapter entitled “Poetry is making money.” It’s a poetry page-turner.
Louis Cabri | Poetryworld | CUE Books | 2010
Louis has invented a whole new genre of sound-sight-reference cross-play unlike any poetry you’ve read anywhere.
Miriam Nichols | Radical Affections | Alabama | 2010
A brilliant synthesis of the last 50 years of literary history (the relation of poetry to philosophy), and a map of where we could go from here.
Dodie Bellamy | Pink Steam | Suspect Thoughts | 2004
I read Bellamy for her fascinating house of mirrors.
Kate Eichhorn | Field Notes | BookThug | 2010
Turns the anthropological machine on its head.
Renee Rodin | Subject to Change | Talonbooks | 2010
Renee speaks from the heart—across her kitchen table—about parents dying, about friends who survived the holocaust, about being young and in love.
Stephen Collis | On the Material | Talonbooks | 2010
Winner of this year’s BC Book Prize for poetry. And well deserved too!
Michael Boughn | Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic | BookThug | 2010
Who could refuse an epic with Holstein cows grazing in it?
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Meredith Quartermain’s Vancouver Walking won a BC Book Award for Poetry. The Dalhousie Review described Matter and Nightmarker as “perhaps the two most noteworthy titles” in recent radical poetry, “prescient, daring,” and “undoing the knot of human understanding.” Recipes from the Red Planet has been shortlisted for a BC Book Award for Fiction and the ReLit prize. Quartermain’s Attention Span for 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004. Back to 2011 directory.
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Attention Span 2011 | Peter Quartermain
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Robert Duncan , ed. Michael Boughn and Victor Coleman | The HD Book | California | 2011
At last! Even if you don’t like Duncan (and quite a few don’t), this is still not to be ignored. Its publication a major event of the year.
Tony Judt | Ill Fares the Land | Penguin | 2010
I lament his death, he’s irreplaceable. Not to heed his work, these essays, would be sheer folly.
Norma Cole | To Be At Music: Essays & Talks | Omnidawn | 2010
Brilliant, pithy, full of news.
George Bowering | My Darling Nelly Gray | Talonbooks | 2010
Bowering in top form.
Robert Pogue Harrison | The Body of Beatrice | Hopkins | 1988
An oldie but goodie, still opening doors.
Meredith Quartermain, drawings by Susan Bee | Recipes From the Red Planet | Book Thug | 2010
I’m not exactly impartial here, but hey, this is really a very interesting and indeed good book. The publisher calls it fiction; it’s more like poetry to me, and resourceful.
Lissa Wolsak | Squeezed Light: Collected Poems 1994-2005 | Station Hill | 2010
Dense, difficult, bracing—can I say these wide-ranging poems are obsessed with words? They’re sure instructive to anyone who cares about them, and really are exhilarating in their astonished thought.
Guy Birchard | Further Than The Blood | Pressed Wafer | 2010
This is Birchard’s sixth or maybe seventh book of poetry, but nobody seems to have noticed. Maybe his poems are too subtle and careful, perhaps the mode at casual glance too familiar, the skill too unobtrusive.
Michael Boughn | Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Micro-Epic | Book Thug | 2010
Issued in fascicles over the last few years, and at last collected together. Boughn is a terrific poet, who actually thinks as he writes. He can be very funny; sometimes he’s very angry. He’s always without fail interesting, so long as you’re paying attention.
Stéphane Mallarmé, trans. Barbara Johnson | Divagations: The Author’s 1897 Arrangement | Belknap / Harvard | 2007
Delighted to find this still in print.
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Peter Quartermain has just (July 2011) submitted “Poetic Fact,” a collection of his essays, to an interested publisher. His edition of Robert Duncan’s Collected Early and Collected Later Poems and Plays is currently at the U of California P. The introduction to the first volume appeared in The Capilano Review, Fall 2009.
Quartermain’s Attention Span for 2010, 2008, 2006. Back to 2011 directory.
Written by Steve Evans
October 17, 2011 at 11:10 am
Posted in Attention Span 2011, Commented List
Tagged with George Bowering, Guy Birchard, Lissa Wolsak, Meredith Quartermain, Michael Boughn, Norma Cole, Peter Quartermain, Robert Duncan, Robert Pogue Harrison, Stéphane Mallarmé, Tony Judt, Victor Coleman