Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Public Poetics 1
5. [The Contemporary Field]
6. Public Poet, Private Life: 20 Riffs on the Dream of a Communal Self 27
7. The Threat of Black Art, or, On Being Unofficially Banned in Canada 43
8. The Counter/Public in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of Poetry in Canada 51
9. Writing the Body Politic: Feminist Poetics in the Twenty-First Century 65
10. Rewriting and Postmodern Poetics in Canada: Neo-Haikus, Neo-Sonnets, Neo-Lullabies, Manifestos 87
11. Poetry I
12. The Sturdiness 109
13. The Sexual Politics of Bluestockings 111
14. Routine 112
15. Volume 114
16. September Still 116
17. The inevitability of gravity on glass 117
18. [The Embedded Field]
19. The Ingeminate Eye: Peter Sanger’s Public Poetics 121
20. Reading for a Civic Public Poetic: Toronto in Raymond Souster’s “Ten Elephants on Yonge Street” and Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies 139
21. To the Bone: The Instrumental Activism of Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries 159
22. Rearticulate, Renovate, Rebuild: Sachiko Murakami’s Architectural Poetics of Community 177
23. “We jimmied the radio”: Gillian Jerome, Brad Cran, and the Lyric in Public 199
24. Poetry II
25. Hungry 219
26. Potter’s Hearing Is Not Khadr’s Ruling 220
27. The House Which Is Not Extension but Dispositio Itself 223
28. The Avian Flu 225
29. [Expanding the Field]
30. Formal Protest: Reconsidering the Poetics of Canadian Pamphleteering 231
31. Radio Poetics: Publishing and Poetry on CBC’s Anthology 253
32. The Public Reading: Call for a New Paradigm 271
33. We Are the Amp: A Poetics of the Human Microphone 289
34. Canadian Public Poetics: Negotiating Belonging in a Globalizing World 313
35. Nota bene; or, notes toward a poetics of work . . . 333
36. Contributors 341
37. Index 347
38. Books in the TransCanada Series 366