
Prior to Meaning
The Protosemantic and Poets
Steve McCaffery(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-8101-1790-7 (ISBN)
Description
In these essays McCaffrey works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice - to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical principles against which it must be read.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
13 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-1790-7 (9780810117907)
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Person
STEVEN McCAFFERY is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. He currently holds the Gray Chair at SUNY Buffalo (Amherst). McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull. He moved to Toronto in 1968. In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and bpNichol, forming the sound-poetry group, The Four Horsemen. McCaffery's poetry attempts to break language from the logic of syntax and structure to create a purely emotional response. He has created three-dimensional structures of words and has released a number of sound and video works, often in collaboration with other poets.