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Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of Bpnichol

Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of Bpnichol

Nichol, BP
Miki, Roy

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Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

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ISBN10: 0889224471
ISBN13: 9780889224476
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: Oct 29 2002
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.73
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.72 Depth: 8.54
Language: English

For bpNichol, who called himself a writer who writes about the act of writing, criticism was not only a means to address his own poetics and the textual practices of his generation; it was just as essential to his imagination as were his poems themselves.

Finally, after years of readers struggling to find or access many of Nichol's innovative critical writings, this much needed and anticipated volume makes it possible to follow Nichol through his thirty-year-long thoughtful engagement with the process of creation. With essays, reviews, talks on poetics, letters, notes, photographs, and excerpts from interviews, editor Roy Miki has put together a provocative record of bpNichol's always explorative approaches to the material conditions of textual production.

Representing a substantial collection of Nichol's critical writing from the mid-1960s up to the year of his death in 1988, Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol puts him, rightfully, on the vanguard of Canadian literature and critical theory. This collection is essential to our sense of Nichol not only as a writer, but also as a person of exemplary generosity, imagination, and intellectual range.

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