The Recovery of the Public World

by Blaser, Robin; Byrne, Edward; Watts, Charles; Watts, Charles; Byrne, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780889223882
• ISBN10: 0889223882
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Talonbooks Ltd

Summary

Cultural Writing. This important collection of essays grew out of the conference of the same name which took place in Vancouver in 1995, organized by editors Charles Watts and Edward Byrne. In the Introduction, Byrne comments about the event and the book: We always thought of that event as the creation of a space in which the virtual, coextensive community that includes such locations as the Berkeley Renaissance, Black Mountain College, the Vancouver Poetry Conference, White Rabbit College, Gino and Carlo's, Tish, the Peace Eye Bookstore, Talon, Coach House, Naropa, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, the Kootenay School of Writing, Proprioception Books, Raddle Moon, the apex of the M, the Buffalo Poetics List, fragmente, Reality Street, Sun & Moon and paradise, to name a very few, could be gathered together in one place again .... Includes essays by Charles Bernstein, Michael McClure, Peter Quartermain, Kevin Killian, Norma Cole, Michael Davidson, Steve McCaffery, Steve Dickison, Peter Gizzi, David Levi Strauss, Susan Howe, Charles Al