Versions of North: Poems
G. P. Lainsbury
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Description
In this late-modern period of slackened meaning, G.P. Lainsbury's Versions of North attempts to locate poetic consciousness in the drifting concept of north, using avantgarde techniques to reveal connections between disparate elements of signification. Lainsbury borrows from a wide variety of sources, filtering them through the grid of a disenchanted idealism taking to heart the cyberpunk declaration that "information wants to be free." Lainsbury uses the page as physical space: a long line creeps into the margin, and margins float about without justification reflecting a desire to mix and confuse games, to play many simultaneously, to use the vice of poetry to pay homage to the virtue of science. He exploits a phantasmagorical lexicon that aggregates literary, philosophical and scientific avant-gardism, and challenges the reader to participate in the construction of a provisional space for effect.
Versions of North engages with the environment of Northern British Columbia; it is the manifestation of the poet's desire to create a cosmopolitan art in a place that modernity sometimes seems to have skipped right over.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
Caitlin Press
Publish Date
January 01, 2012
Pages
88
Dimensions
6.09 X 8.91 X 0.24 inches | 0.32 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781894759625
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G.P. Lainsbury has been teaching at colleges and universities in northern British Columbia since 1995. He is the author of The Carver Chronotope: Inside the Life-World of Raymond Carver's Fiction (Studies in Major Literary Authors, Volume 23. New York and London: Routledge, 2004); his poems, stories and articles have been published widely in journals across North America.
Reviews
"This is the long poem as filibuster, obstructing Roberts Rules of Order and what Lainsbury regards as the 'linearity of conventional poetic logic' in their task of creating banal legislation of both the acknowledged and unacknowledged kinds... Lainsbury is inspired by good models of the long poem deriving from Williams and Pound through Olson and Ginsberg." -- John Harris
"This is poetry that dances on the page, and, as in Pound's work, Lainsbury stands in the center of a swirling vortex grasping one perception after another to arrange on the canvas/page." -- The Buried Letter