The Vestiges - by Jeff Derksen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Political poems at the nexus of aesthetic discourse, globalization, and cultural studies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Based on the experience of city life, <i>The Vestiges</i> moves across the uneven geography of the present, linking historical moments when quarters of cities were squatted, when social change boiled and the future was up for grabs. In the context of our precarious present, the poem "The Vestiges," around which the book is built, "sets out to explore / what happens / to humans when they are reduced / to things by other humans." In asking this question, "The Vestiges" is a long poem engaged with modernist poems that move from the particularities of everyday life to enduring and unanswered political and cultural questions. Covering a wide terrain of research, the other serial poems in the book mine various texts, from the Craigslist "auto parts" section to Jane Jacobs, from Marx to Marcuse, and from historical accounts of cities to contemporary real-estate promotions, in order to build up an eclectic atlas of this unstable moment. In terms of contemporary poetics, <i>The Vestiges</i> enters into dialogue with modernism, conceptual writing, and post-conceptual art.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jeff Derksen</b> is a founding member of Vancouver's writer-run centre, the Kootenay School of Writing, and worked as an editor of <i>Writing</i> magazine. His work has been anthologized in <i>East of Main</i> and <i>Verse: Postmodern Poetry and Language Writing</i>. As an editor, Derksen also organized "Disgust and Overdetermination: a poetics issue," for <i>Open Letter</i> and "Poetry and the Long Neoliberal Moment" for <i>West Coast Line</i>. Derksen's poetry and critical writing on art, urbanism, and text have been published in Europe and North America. Formerly a research fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York, he currently works in the English department at Simon Fraser University. He collaborates on visual art and research projects (focusing on urban issues) with the research collective Urban Subjects. Derksen's <i>Down Time</i> won the 1991 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award at the BC Book Prizes. A selection from <i>Dwell</i> - "Host Nation, Host Society" - was nominated for inclusion in the anthology <i>The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North American Poetry: 1993</i> (Sun & Moon Press).
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