ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: George Bowering, Contiguity, Frank Davey
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
ENG252 Lecture 15
TISH
-1961-69
-Frank Davey
-George Bowering
-Fred Wah
-Jamie Reid
-David Dawson
-Daphne Marlatt
-Gladys Hindmarch
-one of the most important movements in literature
-an anagram for SHIT
From the Margins
-Shared class consciousness
-From the outside (small towns) in Western Canada
-Shared impulse to defy the status quo
•carve a space for themselves
Geopolitics
-Social margins / poetic margins
-Interested in language
-They were all into jazz
•they either loved it or played it
•interested in the free rhythms
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•like open poetic forms
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
-Language poetry
-started in the 1970s on the heels of the Black Mountain poetics
-Poetry aimed to place complete emphasis on the language of the poem and to create
new ways for the reader to interact with poetry
-Language dictates meaning rather than the other way around
-Involves reader in text/reader participation in construction of meaning
-Intertwined with prose writing
Ron Silliman
Language is nothing but meanings, and meanings are nothing but a flow of contexts.
Such contexts rarely coalesce into images, rarely come to terms. They are transitions,
transmutations, the endless radiating of denotation into relation.
Formal innovations
-Influenced by Black Mountain poetics
•Charles Olson
•Robert Creeley
•Robert Duncan
•Warren & Ellen Tallman UBC
Charles Olson
-Challenged hegemony of the personal lyric and western humanism
-Moved away from the Cartesian split between mind and body
-Directive to write about where you are
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Document Summary
One of the most important movements in literature. From the outside (small towns) in western canada. Shared impulse to defy the status quo: carve a space for themselves. They were all into jazz: they either loved it or played it, interested in the free rhythms. Tuesday, february 2, 2016: like open poetic forms. Started in the 1970s on the heels of the black mountain poetics. Poetry aimed to place complete emphasis on the language of the poem and to create new ways for the reader to interact with poetry. Language dictates meaning rather than the other way around. Involves reader in text/reader participation in construction of meaning. Language is nothing but meanings, and meanings are nothing but a ow of contexts. Such contexts rarely coalesce into images, rarely come to terms. They are transitions, transmutations, the endless radiating of denotation into relation. In uenced by black mountain poetics: charles olson, robert creeley, robert duncan, warren & ellen tallman ubc.
