Spring 2014: Languages • The Capilano Review

This article was originally published in Issue 3.23 (Spring 2014) Robertson begins Thinking Space by discussing several rooms: Tycho Brahe’s observatory, Johannes Kepler’s room for optical experiments, Thomas Carlyle’s fictive … Continued

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On Slavoj Žižek’s Less Than Nothing

Deanna Fong

This article was originally published in Issue 3.23 (Spring 2014) Audio-Visual Translation: Seeing Voice and Hearing Space in SpokenWeb’s PoetryLab App I’m in the process of re-reading passages of Slavoj Žižek’s … Continued

Art

Michael Turner / Text-based Public Art Works in Vancouver

Michael Turner

From Issue 3.23 (Spring 2014): Languages Seven years after relocating to Vancouver’s former provincial courthouse, the Vancouver Art Gallery commissioned American artist Lawrence Wiener to produce a text for public … Continued

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On Wade Guyton’s Inkjets and Liz Magor’s Marks

Mitch Speed

This article was originally published in issue 3.23 (Spring 2014) By Mitch Speed It sometimes happens that just as you’ve got two things in your field of vision, a common … Continued

Poetry

Oana Avasilichioaei / from Limbinal

Oana Avasilichioaei

The following is an excerpt from Avasilichioaei’s Limbinal (Talonbooks, 2015), which also appeared in Issue 3.23 (Spring 2014): Languages. A voice addresses the border in an intimate questioning; the city, body, nation … Continued

Interviews

Colin Browne talks to Ian Wallace

Colin Browne

about the role of “Vancouver” in early 20th century French poetry. Here’s an excerpt: Colin Browne: How did you first become interested Apollinaire’s poem “Les fenêtres”? Was it the mention … Continued

Interviews

Donna Zapf talks to Christopher Butterfield

Donna Zapf

on language, music, and translation . . . Read an excerpt here: Donna Zapf: Certainly Hugo Ball and others, Kurt Schwitters’ sound poetry, Dada, early 20th century – going back … Continued

Prose

Dora Sanders / Visiting Yeats, 1932

Dora Sanders

by Dora Sanders. Read an excerpt from the new issue: “I will arise and go now …. ” I wanted to ask if the name of the orchard was Innisfree, … Continued

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On Pauline by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes

Lorna Brown

This article was originally published in issue 3.23 (Spring 2014) Lorna Brown reviews Pauline, a new opera by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes If you had been a student in … Continued

Art

Allyson Clay / GroundSplatPink

Allyson Clay

See Allyson Clay’s new work in the LANGUAGES issue. Paint can be put on a canvas in many ways: tenderly, brutally, sensually, or just plain ugly. —John C. Pellew And … Continued

Issue 3.23

Contributors

Rodopsin bop voluptuary: Virtualis, Christine Stewart and David Dowker (Bookthug 2013)

Visiting Yeats (1932)

Review of Cathy Busby’s Steve’s Vinyl (Pile Driver Editions / Visual AIDS 2013)

Not a curse, nor a bargain, but a hymn

Pauline, a new opera by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes

Wade Guyton’s inkjets, Liz Magor’s Marks

Lisa Robertson’s Thinking Space (Organism for Poetic Research 2013)

Audio-visual Translation: Seeing Voice and Hearing Space in SpokenWeb’s PoetryLab App

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