To the Barricades - by Stephen Collis (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A poetic record of revolution that traces the lines from nineteenth-century Parisian street barricades to twenty-first-century occupations and street marches.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>To the Barricades</i> moves back and forth between historical and contemporary scenes of revolt, from nineteenth-century Parisian street barricades to twenty-first-century occupations and street marches, shifting along the active seam between poetry and revolution. Avant-garde technique is donated to lyric ends, forming an anti-archive of the revolutionary record where words are bricks hurriedly thrown up as linguistic barricades.</p><p><b>Stephen Collis</b> is the author of five books of poetry, including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize-winning <i>On the Material</i> and three titles in the ongoing Barricades Project. An activist and social critic, his writing on the Occupy movement is collected in <i>Dispatches from the Occupation</i> (Talonbooks, 2012).</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Stephen Collis is the author of five books of poetry, including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize-winning <i>On the Material</i> (Talonbooks, 2010) and three parts of the ongoing "Barricades Project" <i>Anarchive</i> (New Star, 2005), <i>The Commons</i> (Talonbooks, 2008), and the forthcoming <i>To the Barricades</i> (2013). An activist and social critic, his writing on the Occupy movement is collected in <i>Dispatches from the Occupation</i> (Talonbooks, 2012). <p/>Collis is also the author of two book-length studies, <i>Phyllis Webb and the Common Good</i> (Talonbooks, 2007) and <i>Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism</i> (ELS Editions, 2006), as well as the editor, with Graham Lyons, of <i>Reading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation</i> (Iowa University Press, 2012). He teaches contemporary poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University, where he was a 2011/12 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow.<br>
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