Research Catalog

Title

Verse and worse : selected and new poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009 / selected with an introduction by Darren Wershler and an afterword by Steve McCaffery.

Author

McCaffery, Steve.

Publication

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

Wershler-Henry, Darren S. (Darren Sean), 1966-

Description

xiv, 73 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009 presents texts from the last two decades by one of the most innovative of contemporary poets. The volume focuses on selections from McCaffery's major texts but also features a substantial number of previously ungathered poems. As playful as they are cerebral, these poems stage an incessant departure from conventional lyrical and narrative methods of making meaning. For those encountering McCaffery's work for the first time, as well as for those who have followed the twists and turns of his astonishingly heterogeneous poetic trajectory, this volume is essential reading."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Laurier poetry series

Uniform Title

Laurier poetry series.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Authors, Canadian > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A theory of the lyric -- from Teachable texts -- from Theory of sediment : the curve to its answer -- A child's history of rhetoric caught as it happens -- from The entries -- A few donuts from an hommagists or : bad modernism -- from Some versions of pastoral -- Apologia pro vita sua -- Coleridge in Calgary (ars poetica 4) -- Ephemera -- from Lag -- from An effect of cellophane -- Oediphus meets the abstract machine -- Suggestion but no insult -- The dangers of poetry (for Italo Calvino) -- The Lone Ranger in Arcadia -- Restricted translation witn imperfect level shift (after Basho) -- The poem as a thing to see -- The view from here -- Tyrolean night -- A map -- Correlata for a Cryptogram -- The logic of six -- First vico meditation -- Second vico meditation -- Digital poetics -- Prior to meaning.

ISBN

• 9781554581887
• 1554581885

OCLC

435873121

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library