Recommend me some books of Canadian poetry to read. Ideally, shorter books that "cohere" in a more explicit way than "a bunch of poems put in a compelling order". Also, perhaps, books that I "should have read already", in that cocktail party sense of "books people have talked about". But really anything. Or, anything I'm likely to find in U of T's library.
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Jordan Scott, _Blert_
Elizabeth Bachinsky, _Curio_
anything by Christian Bök (I'm sure you've already read everything)
Darren Wershler-Henry, _The Tapeworm Foundry_
Louis Cabri, _Mood Embosser_
Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, _Ogress Oblige_
Clint Burnham, _Buddyland_
I have indeed read all the Bök (except the 'Pataphysics book) and of course Blert (Jordan came and read for Spare Room) which I give several thumbs up to. I just saw Bachinsky read the other day (and I'm happy to have been part of the chain that connected you two). I'll add the rest to my list, thanks.
Rita Wong, Forage
Dennis Lee, Un and YesNo
Jill Hartman, A Painted Ape
Nathalie Stephens, Paper City
Lisa Robertson, The Men, and The Weather
Ryan fitzpatrick, Fake Math
Karen Mac Cormack, Quirks and Quillets
Anything by Robert Kroetsch
I read "The Weather" today, and have "The Men" on the stack.
Keep 'em coming.
RUSH LYRICS HEMISPHERES 2112 BY-TOR AND THE SNOW DOG ANYTHING BY RUSH BUT NOT "FREEWILL" WHAT A LAME SONG GEDDY OR NEAL YOU CAN DO BETTER
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p.s. congratulations on getting into the doctoral program!
Erin Moure, O Cadoiro (I enjoyed Little Theatres more but I think you'd like O Cadoiro)
Hugh
When you finish "The Men" and "The Weather," read her new one, "Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip." It's great!
Do you know 'Thirty-seven small songs and thirteen silences'? It always seems very Canadian, to me.
Greg