Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. Introduction
5. Time for the Avant-Garde in Canada 3
6. Prologue
7. The Collective 19
8. Against Assimilation I Rose into Poetry 29
9. The Centennial
10. The Sublation of Obduracy: Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Marketing of Beautiful Losers 39
11. “A Vision in the U of T Stacks”: bpNichol in the Library 59
12. concrete poetics
13. Words With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts 79
14. Post/Avant Comics: bpNichol’s Material Poetics and Comics Art Manifestos 95
15. A Field Guide to North Concrete: Identification Chart 117
16. National and Time 119
17. Continents 121
18. Language Writing
19. Transformation or Resistance: The Kootenay School of Writing in Context 125
20. A Poetics of Neoliberalism 143
21. Sleek Vinyl Drill 159
22. Pillage 12 (“Anaximenes”) 163
23. If Violence (Hey You) 165
24. Identity Writing
25. Messy Confessions: Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? 173
26. Erasures from the Territories Called Canada: Sharpening the Gaze at White Backgrounds 197
27. caribou ghosts & untold stories 223
28. Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel 225
29. Annharte 229
30. Copyleft Poetics
31. A ≠ A: The Potential for a Pataphysical Poetics in Dan Farrell’s The Inkblot Record 233
32. Everyday Practice Before and After Conceptual Writing 253
33. Prose of the TransCanada 275
34. 1988 279
35. Anxious Influence: Reading John Cage Theoretically 281
36. Epilogue
37. On Amanda PL’s Cancelled Exhibit 285
38. A Line Can Be Drawn: An Interview 291
39. After Matter
40. Notes and Acknowledgements 299
41. About the Authors 303
42. Bibliography 309
43. Index 331