Post-prairie

by Fiorentino, Jon Paul

• ISBN13: 9780889225237
• ISBN10: 0889225230
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Talonbooks Ltd

Summary

"Prairie poetry," as it came to be known in the 20th century, has found no more eloquent and accomplished a practitioner than Robert Kroetsch. Yet the North American prairie his work has made so recognizably visible in all of its characteristic particularities is changing profoundly in the 21st century. This change is marked by the transition of a cultural identity primarily rooted in place, to one that is rooted in a rapidly fragmenting, urbanizing, technology-based globalization. In an opening dialogue between the archetypal practitioner of this poetics of place, Robert Kroetsch, and a new practitioner of a poetics of the search for the often sublimated sign, Jon Paul Fiorentino, the reader bears witness to a rare literary event--a master passing on his legacy to the students who have become his peers--the transition from the unifying classic articulation of place to the diaspora of the vernaculars it has engendered.

Table of Contents

Post-Prairie Poetics: A Dialogue	9	(6)
derek beaulieu	15	(4)
Robert Budde	19	(7)
Louis Cabri	26	(17)
Jason Christie	43	(3)
Rosanna Deerchild	46	(3)
Adam Dickinson	49	(2)
Jon Paul Fiorentino	51	(4)
ryan fitzpatrick	55	(4)
Marvin Francis	59	(4)
Jill Hartman	63	(15)
Clive Holden	78	(4)
Catherine Hunter	82	(4)
Larissa Lai	86	(2)
Sylvia Legris	88	(11)
Nicole Markotic	99	(6)
Chandra Mayor	105	(2)
Suzette Mayr	107	(2)
Mariianne Mays	109	(4)
Duncan Mercredi	113	(3)
John K. Samson	116	(4)
Ian Samuels	120	(2)
Natalie Simpson	122	(5)
Karen Solie	127	(9)
Andy Weaver	136	(5)
Darren Wershler-Henry	141	(12)
Publication Notes	153	(2)
About the Contributors	155	(4)
About the Editors	159