A. M. Klein’s Forgotten Play
Abstract: AL. M. KLEIN has always been a writer with a mission; and students of his work know that one of ...
A. W. Purdy: An Interview. Conducted by Gary Geddes
Abstract: G’EDDES: Somehow your poetry manages to be domestic and historical at the same time. Is this what critics mean by ...
Absent Black Women in Dany Laferrière’s How to Make Love to a Negro
Abstract: About the woman of colour I know nothing about her. Frantz Fanon Back Skin, White MasksAlthough numerous critics have noted ...
Adventures in Habitat: An Urban Tale
Abstract: In Adventures in Habitat: An Urban Rat's Tale, through the ecological and literary examination of the Norway rat, I explore the development of an ecological literacy in urban environments. By attending to how other organisms function in and sensorily engage with a territory is a potential means to understand what it means to be human and find more sustainable ways of reinhabitation. As we are creatures who tend to live in excess of our environments’ carrying capacity, I query Neil Evernden's belief that through comparison with how another creature senses place in our shared environment we may realize through pushing beyond our imaginative limitations to understand our limits. I explore how this may be possible in cities where constant disruption desensitizes human attention to urban biodiversity. This essay emerges from Laurie Ricou's habitat studies pedagogy and methodology: a deep mapping of bioregion through a particular species within a particular bioregion. My article places the Norway rat historically in its wider global historical and environmental contexts but settles the rodent in a specific locale: Vancouver, British Columbia. As such, the piece's form follows a braided essay format and incorporates a blending of experiential and scholarly engagement.
Advice from Milton Acorn
Abstract: I have forgotten the first time I saw Milton Acorn: perhaps a knowing friend pointed him out to me on ...
Aesthetics of the Sublime and Don McKay’s Poetics of Deep Time
Abstract: Known as a bird poet par excellence, Don McKay’s ornithological fascination has received more scholarly attention to date than his poetry and criticism on geological themes. One consequence of this critical orientation is that a significant development in McKay’s ongoing critique of Romanticism has not yet been discussed in depth—namely, the shifting terms of his engagement with aesthetics of the sublime. Looking primarily at McKay’s most recent essay collection, The Shell of the Tortoise (2011), as well as select poems from Strike/Slip (2006), this essay explores how McKay’s geopoetic engagements with aesthetics of the sublime extend his idiosyncratic definitions of “wilderness” and “poetic attention.” Moreover, it argues that sustained attention to treatments of sublimity in McKay’s work will result in a more textured understanding of his phenomenological poetics.
Affective Coordination and Avenging Grace: Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here
Abstract: Affective Coordination and Avenging Grace: Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here Everything make sense from then the way flesh ...
Affirming Mystery in Eric McCormack’s The Mysterium
Abstract: “Just out of curiosity, though,” I said, “what do those words on the title page mean— certum quia impossible?” “They’re ...
Africville, an Imagined Community
Abstract: Theorists of nationalism are divided on the question of nationalism’s relationship to racism,1 but that race can and often does ...
After Redress: A Conversation with Roy Miki
Abstract: After Redress: A Conversation with Roy Miki Guy Beauregard Through his work as a critic, poet, editor, teacher, community organizer, ...