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Title

The cheat of words / by Steve McCaffery.

Author

McCaffery, Steve.

Publication

Toronto : ECW Press, 1996.

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Description

111 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• In The Cheat of Words McCaffery expands on the linguistic and political issues addressed in his previous book Theory of Sediment. In this new work the reader encounters, and must negotiate, an insistent slippage of meaning. Exploiting the inherent "shiftiness" of language, that tendency of phrases to refuse to link into higher syllogistic ensembles, McCaffery demonstrates the incessant potential within writing to disturb all drives toward centrality, and stability.
• Defiantly non-lyrical and non-narrative this poetry achieves a neo-baroque festiveness within its regulatory scepticism.

Contents

Catech(I)ism -- A Book: for Mallarme -- Actually You -- "little bits are starting to happen" -- Accordingly -- Jungle Warfare -- Serbia mon amour -- Minima Moralia -- The Tic of a Log which Commits it -- Novel 39 -- Organized Happiness -- Writing a Sand Thinking -- "It's important to start with the real thing" -- Gradual Understanding -- The Date Just Seems -- "It returns with the least of incendiaries" -- "Pedigree at this point enters" -- A Curtain Rising on a Bone: for Eric Satie -- Prohibition: for David Bromige -- Critique of Cynical Poesis -- Blue Note -- Motive for Mass -- (F.) (O.) (R.) (W.) (T.) -- Learning Lenin -- Discourse on Method -- "He came to posit Caesar" -- Dear Page -- Poem One -- Poem Two -- XYPFTAGV -- "Political seems twilight" -- Instruction Manual -- Broad Topics -- Teachable Texts -- Envoi -- Future Indicative -- Hystery -- Pinyin -- "What constitutes"

ISBN

• 1550222791 (P. 4 of cover)
• 1550222503 (Can. CIP)

LCCN

96177409

OCLC

• 36083766
• ocm36083766

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries