Fall 2014: Bowering's Books • The Capilano Review

George Bowering’s 1962 poem “Grandfather” has a long history brilliantly referenced in this four-minute audio piece. Bowering’s relationship with this early and much-anthologized poem is explored in the Nomados publication … Continued

Prose

George Stanley / On Duncan, Spicer, Blaser

George Stanley

In his interview with Miriam Nichols (TCR 3.24), George Bowering says, of Robert Duncan’s and Jack Spicer’s estimation of Robin Blaser’s poetic talent, “I’m sure that, and you probably are … Continued

A/V

AUDIO / Jesus Ramirez and Meghan Gilhespy perform George Bowering’s “Raspberries” at Capilano University on November 20, 2014

The Editors

Jesus Ramirez and Meghan Gilhespy perform George Bowering’s “Raspberries” Jazz musicians Jesus Ramirez (drums) and Meghan Gilhespy (vocals) perform George Bowering’s “Raspberries” from his book Autobiology at the launch of Bowering’s Books … Continued

Poetry

Erín Moure / On George Bowering’s “Irritable Reaching”

Erín Moure

“Irritable Reaching” from Delayed Mercy 1986. ERÍN MOURE / NINE TERCETS BY DANTE USING FIRST LINES OF BOWERING’S IRRITABLE REACHING (1986) READ BACKWARD AND MAINTAINING THE ONE TYPO (THE TERCET … Continued

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On Ron Silliman’s Against Conceptual Poetry

Louis Cabri

. . . The name of things is very important. The naming of human intellectual work and our entire intellectual record is possibly the most important thing…. (20) Ron Silliman’s … Continued

Prose

Margaret Atwood / George Bowering and The Gangs of Kosmos

Margaret Atwood

Read an excerpt from Margaret Atwood’s “George Bowering and The Gangs of Kosmos” from TCR 3.24: I first met George Bowering and his wife Angela at a writers’ party in … Continued

Prose

Sacha Milojevic / Dreaming a Space for Books and Reading: Project for a George Bowering Library

Sacha Milojevic

In the stand of trees just up out of the clearing occupied by the cylindrical Capilano University Library, one can dream of a small cluster of domestic-scaled reading rooms to … Continued

Prose

George Bowering / Letter to Michael Ondaatje

George Bowering

“Thea, do your piano practice! Oh, excuse me, I was sposed to shout that, not type it. I am an automatic narrative plunker-down. I cant help myself, a slave of … Continued

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On George Bowering’s Genève

Ted Byrne

This article was originally published in Issue 3.24 (Fall 2014) Read an excerpt from Ted Byrne’s “Justice is a Woman: Reading Genève” in TCR 3.24: Genève is a serial poem … Continued

A/V

AUDIO / George Bowering reading at Capilano College in 1974

George Bowering

in 1974! “Letter to Nixon” from At War with the U.S. From “The Big Leagues”: “The Detroit Tigers” “The Dallas Cowboys” “San Diego Padres” “Buffalo Sabers” “The Minnesota Twins” In … Continued

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On Margaux Williamson’s I Could See Everything

Chelsea Rooney

This article was originally published in Issue 3.24 (Fall 2014) The title alone—I Could See Everything—evokes a sense of wonder. Imagine, what you would see, if you could see everything. … Continued

Issue 3.24

Contributors

reviews George Stanley's North of California St.

reviews Ben Lerner's 10:04

reviews Margaux Williamson's I Could See Everything

on PUBLIC Magazine

on Artist Poetry and Poets Theatre

on Composer Residencies and Collaboration

reviews Ron Silliman's Against Conceptual Poetry

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