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Lyric/Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry
Writer as Critic: VIII
Douglas Barbour
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Lyric/Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry, by Douglas Barbour, is the
latest addition to NeWest Press' award-winning Writer as Critic Series.
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Douglas Barbour is a well known Canadian poet living in Edmonton, Alberta.
Lyric/Anti-lyric begins with his well known essay by the same title and
includes a number of his recent essays on the poetry of various Canadian
poets-including Michael Ondaatje, Phyllis Webb, E.D. Blodgett, Roy Kiyooka,
Sharon Thesen and others-as well as some Australian and New Zealand poets,
and one long essay on American poet Susan Howe. Lyric/Anti-lyric brings
together the best of Barbour's criticism over the past two decades.
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Since first visiting Australia and New Zealand in 1984 Barbour has
developed a growing interest in the poetry of both countries which share a
wide range of colonial and postcolonial experiences with Canada. He has
always been interested in US poetry in the Pound-Williams line, and this
has led to his recent work on Howe.
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"This accessible collection of essays represents twenty years of Douglas
Barbour's thinking about modern and contemporary poetry. Barbour is a
careful reader who attends to poetry's nuances and responds with the
subtlety of a scholar and the passion of a poet. 'I tend to write essays as
a series of notes,' Barbour writes, 'little travels over the body of single
words, trying to see and hear what I can, and to articulate that response
as accurately as possible.' His readers are fortunate indeed to join
Barbour in his travels through a variety of works by Canadian, Australian
and New Zealand poets."
-Manina Jones
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Douglas Barbour is a professor in the Department of English, University of
Alberta, where he teaches creative writing, modern poetry, Canadian
Literature, and science fiction and fantasy. A teacher, writer, critic,
theorist, editor, publisher and poet, Barbour holds degrees from Acadia,
Dalhousie and Queen's Universities. His latest book of poetry, Fragmenting
Body etc was published by NeWest Press and SALT Publishing in 2000.
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Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
We speak
and as we stop we forget
even to be alone is to repeat.
(A silence's potential is to be infinitely printable.)
Clark Coolidge
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