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Popular Narratives
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Popular Narratives
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Frank Davey
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:96 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 153 |
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| Category/Genre | Poetry |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780889222854
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| Classifications | Dewey:811 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Talon Books,Canada
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| Imprint |
Talon Books,Canada
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| Publication Date |
1 January 1991 |
| Publication Country |
Canada
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Description
This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our society's "popular narratives." A revealing and witty, exploded view of our culture.
Author Biography
Frank Davey Born in Vancouver, Frank Davey attended the University of British Columbia where he was a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. In addition, he co-founded the world's first on-line literary magazine, SwiftCurrent in 1984. Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind it, and the struggles between different identity-based groups in our globalizing society--racial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economic--that drive this play.
Reviews"Risque metaphors ... scandalously unpoetic...a powerful alternative to the orthodoxy of poetic beauty." -- Smaro Kamboureli
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