Poets Talk

Back CoverYou will not find any easy answers here,but there are some common threads.Unlike the Group of Seven, these seven poets did not begin with a shared polemic. Indeed they speak from different regions, generations, sexualities, classes, races, and communities.Yet, despite their divergent tracks, these poets are, as Dionne Brand says, part of a genealogy of poets who _take up the hard questions,_ and _push their ideas and their language and their minds._Endlessly curious, lively, mischievous, funny and provocative, you will surely enjoy spending a couple of hours in their company._from Poets TalkFront FlapSeven diverse poets distinguished by age, gender, sexual orientation, and race.Seven poets linked by experiment and opposition.Robert Kroetsch discusses historicizing the postmodern.Daphne Marlatt speaks of salvaging;Erin Mouré encourages excessiveness.Dionne Brand recollects anti-colonial struggle whileMarie Annharte Baker brings laughter to deprogramming.Jeff Derksen links his politics and poetics.Fred Wah maps a poetics of racial hybridity.Poets Talk brings new insights to the value ofinspiration, imagination, and poetic re-invention.Back FlapPauline Butling is Instructor Emeritus, Liberal Studies, Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. She has authored several articles, as well as Seeing in the Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb.Susan Rudy is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Calgary. She is author of Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference, as well as several nationally distributed articles and reviews.Cover Image: Love at First Bite (detail), by Marcel Guay, 1988. Etching/Aquatint on paper, 45.1 x 29.9 cm. Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Used by permission of the artist.THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESSA volume in (currents), a Canadian literature seriesBook design by Kevin ZakPrinted in Canada$34.95 in Canadawww.uap.ualberta.caISBN 0888644310Butling, Pauline is the author of 'Poets Talk ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780888644312 and ISBN 0888644310.