Regie Cabico

Todd Swift

Poetry Nation is a compelling overview of all the movements in current "alternative" poetries, with special attention to women, gay, Black, Asian, and indigenous writers. Major figures are presented alongside the most exciting younger voices. The anthology features Allen Ginsberg's last poem, a never-collected poem by Evelyn Lau, and a newly-discovered love poem by Ian Stephens. One hundred cutting-edge poets including Sandra Cisneros, Bill Bissett, Clifton Joseph, Ras Baraka, Stan Rogal, Steven Heighton, Lynn Crosbie, Robert Priest, Nicole Blackman, David McGimpsey, Louise Bak, Golda Fried, and Hal Sirowitz. -- distributor's website.

The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry

Poetry Nation

Swiftís Budavox: poems 1990-1999 explored sex, violence, art, and memory, to critical acclaim. His new collection, CafÈ Alibi, written while the author lived abroad in Budapest and Paris, extends these concerns to include popular culture, history, desire, nostalgia, and the often competing claims of travel and home. Swiftís crisp, elegant, deceptively calm language questions images of 'the child, the adult and the outside world' in ways both witty and disturbing. CafÈ Alibi maps a stylish itinerary through exotic terrain, offering at once hostility and ultimate peace, poetry that puts love to the test and disarms our darkest fears. Critical Comment ìThis slim edition ... contains elegant, swift poems ó precise as shards of glass.î ó Bridget Hourican,The Dubliner Nov. 2002 ìSwift writes exquisitely about everyday experiences, changing the base metal of our existence into something fine and valuable.î ó Tony Lewis-Jones, Poetry Scotland ì[Swift] arranges that formal, renegade language into an entirely believable, and often lovely, alibi.î ó Lisa Pasold, Literary Review of Canada, Dec. 2002 ìThese are the words of a poet where words are ... lavishly seemingly uncontrolled but finally right, fitting, suitably apt.î ó Harriet Zinnes, The Hollins Critic, June 2003 ìWere a director like Jean-Luc Goddard to create a full-length feature film from a collection of peoms, CafÈ Alibi would be the perfect choice. î ó Vallum, Fall-Winter 2005 ì...a collection that is both colourful and sharply crafted. CafÈ Alibi feels packed somehow, a kind of suitcase of stylish imagery for the elegant traveler. Here are poems infused by Budapest and Paris, and written in a brilliantly intriguing way.... Itís an impressive collection.î ó Leviathan Quarterly, 2003

Poems

Café Alibi

Anthology of over 100 poets of the 20th and 21st centuries writing on war; most of the poems first appeared in the ebook of the same name during the first three months of 2003.

100 Poets Against the War

Jason Camlot

Language Acts brings together twenty provocative essays on the state of English-language poetry in Qubec since 1976. Born and raised during this historically resonant period of Trudeauism, organized Qubecois nationalism, language legislation, and profound demographic and cultural change, Anglo-Qubec poetry has come of age in the 21st century as a literature with its own distinct arguments about itself, and its own poetical acts in language. Language Acts features essays on many important, even canonical, figures such as Robert Allen, Anne Carson, Leonard Cohen, Louis Dudek, D.G. Jones, Irving Layton, Michael Harris, Erin Mour, David McGimpsey, Robyn Sarah, and Peter Van Toorn, and on a wide range of poetry activities including those of the Vhicule Poets and the Montreal Spoken Word scene. This is the first critical collection of its kind to appear in over forty years and will set the terms used to discuss English language poetry in Qubec for years to come.

Todd Swift

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