Popular Narratives
Will be published approx. on 4. April 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-88922-285-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our society's "popular narratives." A revealing and witty, exploded view of our culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
150 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88922-285-4 (9780889222854)
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Born in Vancouver, Frank Davey attended the University of British Columbia where he was a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. In addition, he co-founded the world's first on-line literary magazine, SwiftCurrent in 1984. Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind it, and the struggles between different identity-based groups in our globalizing society-racial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economic-that drive this play.