{"product_id":"9781771123525","title":"Avant Canada : Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries by Gregory Betts","description":"Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field.The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde production: \"\"Concrete Poetics,\"\" which accentuates the visual and material aspects of language; \"\"Language Writing,\"\" which challenges the interconnection between words and things; \"\"Identity Writing,\"\" which interrogates the self and its sociopolitical position; and \"\"Copyleft Poetics,\"\" which undermines our habitual assumptions about the ownership of expression. A fifth section commemorates the importance of the Centennial in the 1960s at a time when avant-garde cultures in Canada began to emerge.   Readers of this book will become familiar with some of the most challenging works of literature - and their creators - that this country has ever produced. From Concrete Poetry in the 1960s through to Indigenous Literature in the 2010s, Avant Canada offers the most sweeping study of the literary avant-garde in Canada to date.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302796603765,"sku":"9781771123525","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781771123525.jpg?v=1762793298","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781771123525","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}