Fragmenting Body etc
Published on 1. August 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-876857-02-8 (ISBN)
Description
This is a selection of poetry sequences by well-known poet and critic Douglas Barbour. Many of the sequences in Fragmenting Body etc were written in response to particular events or texts, but are not intended to be reports or descriptions of them. Included are an elegiac sequence for bpNichol, a poetic response to the art of Liz Ingram, a poem written daily during the Gulf War, and the long title poem exploring aspects of what we mean by the body in the world. Each sequence in Fragmenting Body etc explores the possibilities of language as it attempts to do something different in an innovative manner.
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Barbour composes with the trained ear of a musician who's got something to say before the lights go out forever. -- Roy MikiMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Applecross, WA
Australia
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-876857-02-8 (9781876857028)
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Person
Douglas Barbour lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He teaches creative writing, modern and Canadian literature at the University of Alberta. His books include: Visible Visions: Selected Poems (NeWest 1984) and Story for a Saskatchewan Night (rdcpress, 1989). He has published critical volumes on bpNichol, and Michael Ondaatje (Twayne, 1993). With Stephen Scobie he performs in the sound poetry duo Re: Sounding, and edited the CD, Carnivocal: A Celebration of Sound Poetry (Red Deer Press, 1999).
Content
Fragmenting body
Part One
the direction of animals and automatons
he is entitled - in short, his value, his price, his
already described. the Mother is the seat of a process
is established between the male sacrificer
months of the year, inhabited by the
is a loss of one of the very similarities
every productive insemination
whole cadaver or of a part seems a virtual
their place. `But, inexplicable wonder, by altering
and sculpture but also added wings to
in a pincer of fingers
transformed into another species or likeness, except
creature slain by Bellerophon in
G. - The Seriousness of the bear served
autonomy. There is no need for any reminder of the excesses
Part Two
truth, but we should seriously
But they also urged them, in doing so, to raise themselves morally
it wax and
the idealogical
clarify the
to incite the
purified joi.
into fabric
to the human body can be found in
explanation, in `dephysiologizing' psychology,
fearful
backand forth
control over what
not deny the rupture caused by death or resurrection, is not a mere perpetutation
Part Three
the importance and the multiple meanings of
decently dressed and a couple
the wombe shall be inverted yet it will never make the virile member
place
off differently: from the blood proceed the bones
in writing
leader displayed on a pike
In this society, described as com-
the beardless philosopher
to her couch. The socieal context, not the act itself
also disturbed by the
body eter-
by a network of prohibitions whose function
of monarchic power. Each
fallen from his place, astray in a corner of the universe
point of death, already condemned life
of the naked goddess in
Paratactical manouevres
visions from nolan:
wargaming:
homing:
paying the paratax:
for bpNichol: these misrememberings
cloud tones: martyred music:
i
ii
iii
iv
cloud town, again:
[a(nother)version: therapy]
read dream
song for barrie
v
vi
"We live in the memory of our friends."
Black Hole of Memory
Bird of Paradise
Notes
Part One
the direction of animals and automatons
he is entitled - in short, his value, his price, his
already described. the Mother is the seat of a process
is established between the male sacrificer
months of the year, inhabited by the
is a loss of one of the very similarities
every productive insemination
whole cadaver or of a part seems a virtual
their place. `But, inexplicable wonder, by altering
and sculpture but also added wings to
in a pincer of fingers
transformed into another species or likeness, except
creature slain by Bellerophon in
G. - The Seriousness of the bear served
autonomy. There is no need for any reminder of the excesses
Part Two
truth, but we should seriously
But they also urged them, in doing so, to raise themselves morally
it wax and
the idealogical
clarify the
to incite the
purified joi.
into fabric
to the human body can be found in
explanation, in `dephysiologizing' psychology,
fearful
backand forth
control over what
not deny the rupture caused by death or resurrection, is not a mere perpetutation
Part Three
the importance and the multiple meanings of
decently dressed and a couple
the wombe shall be inverted yet it will never make the virile member
place
off differently: from the blood proceed the bones
in writing
leader displayed on a pike
In this society, described as com-
the beardless philosopher
to her couch. The socieal context, not the act itself
also disturbed by the
body eter-
by a network of prohibitions whose function
of monarchic power. Each
fallen from his place, astray in a corner of the universe
point of death, already condemned life
of the naked goddess in
Paratactical manouevres
visions from nolan:
wargaming:
homing:
paying the paratax:
for bpNichol: these misrememberings
cloud tones: martyred music:
i
ii
iii
iv
cloud town, again:
[a(nother)version: therapy]
read dream
song for barrie
v
vi
"We live in the memory of our friends."
Black Hole of Memory
Bird of Paradise
Notes