Literary Criticism. Second Edition. Co-published with Nightwood Editions, Toronto, NORTH OF INTENTION is thedefinitive collection of Steve McCaffery's critical writing, spanning theyears in which he solidified his reputation as English Canada's mostaccomplished experimental writer. It is a must for any serious student ofcontemporary poetry and poetics and a testament to McCaffery's persistentrefusal to barter with NAFTA-like terms of traditional exegesis. "NORTH OF INTENTION is a panoramic, erotic, anti-accumulative collectionof essays centering on the formally investigative North American poetryof the 1970s and 1980s. McCaffery's high-theoretical performances reclaimliterary theory for engaged literary practices"—Charles Bernstein.

North of intention : critical writings, 1973-1986

Literature & Fiction

McCaffery, Steve

Poetry

Roof Books

<p>Poetry. "In the poems of CONTROLLING INTERESTS Bernstein continually reveals his desire for the concomitance of the individual and the world, of all language and experience . This book is one of the most original and imaginative in American lyric verse"—Douglas Messerli. "Bernstein presents the reader with a world in which the articulation of an individual language is all but prevented by the official discourses that bombard the consciousness from all sides . He [is] on to something important"—Marjorie Perloff. "It is writing of absolute necessity, demanding not to be appreciated, but understood"—Ron Silliman.</p>

Controlling Interests

Bernstein, Charles

Wobbling

Bruce Andrews

Poetry. "I. The little death, first. There is no such thing as an emergency in the poetry world. Trained on. Like a third armpit. The advantage of the cordless model. You went and had all this shipped in. Promoting camaraderie. And didn't think to ask me if I needed any notions. DutyTour in a 'hot.' Deep enough so no one would notice. In fact, not foundationless red herrings. Play in traffic. I have dollars tonight. But closer approximations of what only a few new in actuality. Scram. Shove off. Go fan it. Major repairs. Get lost. Make like Houdini. A showCause order. In line. Somewhere in the Dominican Republic. Steak fries. The American plan. Purloined and subsequently repainted and furnished with new serial numbers, for the fourth time. An admit list in addition to a guest list. The almost vaudevillian realization that all thoseTightest paranoid fantasies. Beat it. Go take the air. All serving as witting dupes. Convection summary. The fickle incandescent. Devouring the characterization. Bought or sold, were. Take a walk. The techs and the temps. All walks of life. Basque cocktail lounge. The shame of God"—from NINETY-SIX TEARS.

Ninety-Six Tears (Roof XIII)

Gottlieb, Michael

Sir, only our man in a stupor steps through your own books. Now the tree grew brown and blue, it's surface grew on. And before sleep and that first sweat on the lip the shock of those strokes stood and stand. Solid, conscious, geologic time. Business blues and metaphors envelop the reader in the swamp, will for at least a poet to a moment in a decade. Tony's not frightened. Faces of the verbal in vivid rags, hips in the stars, hope in a poem sort of star stops like secrets. As the spirit in the kid tells us, charge the awe into a change writing. Here's desire squeezing with errors of the epitome. So this infinite phase starting stops a pauper with the girls in dresses. And the probable distribution of the outsider with an image, a landscape reread in the birth of a versatile wildness. The desert made a mess of the sand, like being written by a stain. There's ranting, like work in this heat. There's something good about the confederate future. Its intent makes thy love emerge naturally and blend combat images of lines beyond the rookies who will come and the smell of the ground and birds, gulls. And wild white roads in the group by fire, infosense stares. Once an activist in two, believe an act, believe poems and purposes sharing the reader provided by poem samples and names and contrasting blurb soft rains.

The Son Master

Seaton, Peter

Active 24 Hours

Davies, Alan

From Solids

Child, Abigail

<p>Poetry. Second Printing. "In the past two decades, Robert Grenier's work has advanced word-art in a joyous, pacific and irresistable way: his words are inscribed on visible (and-invisible, i.e. interior) prayer-flags that flutter above and around the habitations of many surviving anarchically intelligent humans in this hemishpere (and, I guess, the other one, too). Come from the wind/breath, gone into the wind/breath, returning and emanating, in great precision, playfulness, and delighted integrity, The intelligence of joy, once again manifest in our poetry"--Anselm Hollo.</p>

A Day at the Beach

Grenier, Robert

Popular Fiction

Sherry, James

United States

1985, trade paperback edition, Roof Books, NY, 120 pages. Poetry.

Progress

Watten, Barrett

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