عنوان

Apostrophe /

(Number (ISBN

128194260X

(Number (ISBN

1554902665

(Number (ISBN

1554907225

(Number (ISBN

1554909503

(Number (ISBN

9781281942609

(Number (ISBN

9781554902668

(Number (ISBN

9781554907229

(Number (ISBN

9781554909506

Erroneous ISBN

155022722X

Erroneous ISBN

9781550227222

Number

b743679

Publisher's Number

EB00074511

Source

Recorded Books

Title Proper

Apostrophe /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

compiled by Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Toronto, Ont. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

ECW Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (293 pages)

Text of Note

Cover -- Copyright -- Apostrophe (ninety-four) -- Layer two.

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Text of Note

You are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome / you are a man / you are a little confused / you are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome . . ." Apostrophe" is: a) a figure of speech in which a person, an abstract quality or a nonexistent entity is addressed as though present b) a poem written in 1993 in which every sentence is an apostrophe c) a program--apostropheengine.ca--based on the 1993 poem that hijacks search engines in order to extend the poem infinitely d) a book of poetry written using the website The answer: e) all of the above. Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry's Apostrophe contains all of these things, except the search engine (but you can visit that any time you like). Each line from the original poem has become the title of a new poem generated by the program's metonymic romp through the World Wide Web. Phrases rub against each other promiscuously; poems and readers alike come to their own conclusions. The results are by turns poignant, banal, offensive and hilarious, but always surprising and always unaffected. In other words, everything a book of contemporary poetry should be, and then some. Poet and scholar Charles Bernstein has suggested that Apostrophe may be related to Freud's notion of the uncanny, a somnambulistic drift that appears aimless yet somehow always returns to "you." Apostrophe is an entirely new kind of poetry: neither stable nor unstable, sections come and go, but the overall shape of the poem remains vaguely familiar, like a trick of memory.

Title

Apostrophe.

International Standard Book Number

9781550227222

Canadian poetry-- 21st century.

Prose poems, Canadian.

Canadian poetry (English)-- 21st century.

Poésie canadienne-anglaise-- 21e siècle.

Canadian poetry.

POETRY-- Canadian.

Prose poems, Canadian.

GBC

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Kennedy, Bill,1969-

Wershler-Henry, Darren S., (Darren Sean),1966-

Date of Transaction

20201204040948.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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