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The Resource The gorge : selected writing, Nancy Shaw ; edited by Catriona Strang

The gorge : selected writing, Nancy Shaw ; edited by Catriona Strang

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"Nancy Shaw was an award-winning poet, scholar, and critic who was formative in shifting the ground of Canadian literature and poetics. She was co-director of the influential Kootenay School of Writing and Writing magazine, was an artist-in-residence at the Western Front in the 1980s, and a chair of the Vancouver New Music Society. In a 1994 CBC interview with KSW poets Jeff Derksen, Lisa Robertson, Catriona Strang, and Shaw herself, Shelagh Rogers asked American poet Peter Gizzi to describe their work, and he said: "Their work is unbridled, valiant, and vivid. [Their] vocabulary [is] reinventing the present." Shaw's work was rooted in the contemporary and deeply concerned with collaboration, the institutionalization of art, the potential of the epistolary form, and breaking the conventions of poetry by offering interdisciplinary perspectives. In Vancouver Anthology: The Institutional Politics of Art, Shaw wrote that collaborations allowed her to "question notions of authorship and originality." She collaborated with artists and musicians such as Eric Metcalfe, and drew from popular music to write anthems and torch songs such as "Torch Song #6" in which she asserts: "[...] burst through my song / my watery one / my singular scrap." Edited by Catriona Strang, who co-authored Busted and Cold Trip with Shaw, The Gorge collects a range of Shaw's prolific writing with a focus on her collaborations and poetry. The Gorge: Selected Writing of Nancy Shaw resumes Talonbooks' affordable and carefully culled Selected Writing series that began in the 1980s."--
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
xxii, 201 pages
Contents
  • Introduction:Constellations and contingent networks: Nancy Shaw's structures of possibility / Catriona Strang. "Off-axis aural crease" : Arcades letter
  • between fantasy and feast. Hard to read. "the dictionary says otherwise" : Blind to the part. Affordable tedium. "Piling over the ultra-material disguise" : Poetic statement(letter to Kevin Killan)
  • Stills for "Scoptocratic"
  • Cine-poem
  • The idea file of contingency
  • Anthems
  • Flags
  • Two versions of six poems. Laura letters. "A still pricey/analysis" : Currency stump
  • Funeral games
  • Rhetorical fancy
  • Liberty banquet
  • Arcades intarsia: for a love of knitting
  • Witless
  • Light. sweet. crude. Bearing witness: Roméo Dallaire, Shake hands with the devil: the journey of Roméo Dallaire. Acknowledgments
  • Publication history
  • Image permissions
Isbn
9781772011401
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The gorge : selected writing
Title
The gorge
Title remainder
selected writing
Statement of responsibility
Nancy Shaw ; edited by Catriona Strang
Creator
Contributor
Author
Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Nancy Shaw was an award-winning poet, scholar, and critic who was formative in shifting the ground of Canadian literature and poetics. She was co-director of the influential Kootenay School of Writing and Writing magazine, was an artist-in-residence at the Western Front in the 1980s, and a chair of the Vancouver New Music Society. In a 1994 CBC interview with KSW poets Jeff Derksen, Lisa Robertson, Catriona Strang, and Shaw herself, Shelagh Rogers asked American poet Peter Gizzi to describe their work, and he said: "Their work is unbridled, valiant, and vivid. [Their] vocabulary [is] reinventing the present." Shaw's work was rooted in the contemporary and deeply concerned with collaboration, the institutionalization of art, the potential of the epistolary form, and breaking the conventions of poetry by offering interdisciplinary perspectives. In Vancouver Anthology: The Institutional Politics of Art, Shaw wrote that collaborations allowed her to "question notions of authorship and originality." She collaborated with artists and musicians such as Eric Metcalfe, and drew from popular music to write anthems and torch songs such as "Torch Song #6" in which she asserts: "[...] burst through my song / my watery one / my singular scrap." Edited by Catriona Strang, who co-authored Busted and Cold Trip with Shaw, The Gorge collects a range of Shaw's prolific writing with a focus on her collaborations and poetry. The Gorge: Selected Writing of Nancy Shaw resumes Talonbooks' affordable and carefully culled Selected Writing series that began in the 1980s."--
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1962-
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Shaw, Nancy
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no index present
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non fiction
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Strang, Catriona,
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  • Canadian poetry
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Short stories
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The gorge : selected writing, Nancy Shaw ; edited by Catriona Strang
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Contents
Introduction:Constellations and contingent networks: Nancy Shaw's structures of possibility / Catriona Strang. "Off-axis aural crease" : Arcades letter -- between fantasy and feast. Hard to read. "the dictionary says otherwise" : Blind to the part. Affordable tedium. "Piling over the ultra-material disguise" : Poetic statement(letter to Kevin Killan) -- Stills for "Scoptocratic" -- Cine-poem -- The idea file of contingency -- Anthems -- Flags -- Two versions of six poems. Laura letters. "A still pricey/analysis" : Currency stump -- Funeral games -- Rhetorical fancy -- Liberty banquet -- Arcades intarsia: for a love of knitting -- Witless -- Light. sweet. crude. Bearing witness: Roméo Dallaire, Shake hands with the devil: the journey of Roméo Dallaire. Acknowledgments -- Publication history -- Image permissions
Control code
959036482
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xxii, 201 pages
Isbn
9781772011401
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)959036482
Label
The gorge : selected writing, Nancy Shaw ; edited by Catriona Strang
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction:Constellations and contingent networks: Nancy Shaw's structures of possibility / Catriona Strang. "Off-axis aural crease" : Arcades letter -- between fantasy and feast. Hard to read. "the dictionary says otherwise" : Blind to the part. Affordable tedium. "Piling over the ultra-material disguise" : Poetic statement(letter to Kevin Killan) -- Stills for "Scoptocratic" -- Cine-poem -- The idea file of contingency -- Anthems -- Flags -- Two versions of six poems. Laura letters. "A still pricey/analysis" : Currency stump -- Funeral games -- Rhetorical fancy -- Liberty banquet -- Arcades intarsia: for a love of knitting -- Witless -- Light. sweet. crude. Bearing witness: Roméo Dallaire, Shake hands with the devil: the journey of Roméo Dallaire. Acknowledgments -- Publication history -- Image permissions
Control code
959036482
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xxii, 201 pages
Isbn
9781772011401
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)959036482

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