Spring 2011: The George Stanley Issue • The Capilano Review

Poetry

Joshua Clover and Chris Nealon / Seventh Letter and Eighth Letter: On Value and Poetry

Chris Nealon and Joshua Clover

Joshua Clover / Chris Nealon (co-written) So this is what relentless expenditure feels like now, All spondees all the time: we we … Continued

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Joshua Clover and Chris Nealon / Letter Six: on Value and Poetry

Chris Nealon and Joshua Clover

Chris Nealon Dear Joshua, Thank you for your postcard. I would have liked to be in this village you describe, in a café with free coffee for the regulars and … Continued

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Joshua Clover and Chris Nealon / Letter Four: on Value and Poetry

Chris Nealon and Joshua Clover

Chris Nealon Dear Joshua, Your beautiful description of parties-as-tactics helped me see one more reason why I was feeling so strongly tugged in your-all’s direction last year – “street party … Continued

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Bioregionalism & Ecopoetry

Kim Goldberg

What distinguishes ecopoetry from nature poetry? Many of the tribute poems in the George Stanley Issue of TCR are not only ‘regional’ poems (with that moniker meant in the best … Continued

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Joshua Clover and Chris Nealon / Letter Three: on Value and Poetry

Joshua Clover and Chris Nealon

Joshua Clover Dear Chris, I am glad you raise the place of the party, that great political question of the last century or more. Though that sounds like a quippy … Continued

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Joshua Clover and Chris Nealon / Letter Two on Value and Poetry

Chris Nealon and Joshua Clover

Chris Nealon Dear Joshua, So here’s the thing about Ke$ha. Last year, when anticapitalists in the Bay Area were working out a new politics of resistance to the budget crisis … Continued

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Joshua Clover and Chris Nealon / Letter One: on Value and Poetry

Joshua Clover and Chris Nealon

Joshua Clover Dear Chris, I have been thinking almost without interruption about value. Part of this is the attempt to understand value theory: to understand, at the stratum of social … Continued

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Kim Goldberg / Neoliberalism & the Death of Memory

Kim Goldberg

The planetary collapse is not my fault – Google ate my memory. In The George Stanley Issue of TCR, Reg Johanson deftly dissects neoliberalism (its restructuring of our political, social, … Continued

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Simon Thompson / George Stanley and baseball

Simon Thompson

Some notes on George Bowering’s “Two Bits on the Green Guy” There are many reasons I enjoyed Bowering’s “Two Bits on the Green Guy” in the current issue of TCR. … Continued

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Kim Goldberg / Back to the Future: The Return of DIY Publishing

Kim Goldberg

Dale Peck slams big publishers and Amazon, calls on authors to form collectives to control the production and sale of their creative output… reminiscent of Vancouver’s vibrant indy press scene … Continued

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Simon Thompson / Comes with Instructions

Simon Thompson

A note about Stanley’s poetics and pedagogy. In the article “Careless in Vancouver,” Daniel Bouchard makes a vital observation about the fact that Stanley expresses his pedagogy in Vancouver: a … Continued

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Simon Thompson / The George Stanley Chair of Poetry

Simon Thompson

The George Stanley Chair of Poetry is a thing and an idea. The George Stanley Chair of Poetry both exists and, unfortunately, does not exist. What began as something of a … Continued

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