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Poems Suitable to Current Material Conditions

Product Description: Poems Suitable to Current Material Conditions demonstrates how seductive everyday wordsNthose euphemisms and new 'expressions'N often mean more than we think they do: how when we speak them we can be tricked into saying more than we've meant to say...read more

By Frank Davey

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9781771260534 | Mansfield Pr, October 15, 2014, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Poems Suitable to Current Material Conditions demonstrates how seductive everyday wordsNthose euphemisms and new 'expressions'N often mean more than we think they do: how when we speak them we can be tricked into saying more than we've meant to say.

Aka Bpnichol: A Preliminary Biography

Product Description: Written by one of his friends and confidants, a close reading of bpNicholâs poetry aka bpNichol is the biography of the major Canadian poet bpNichol, who was a practising lay psychoanalyst and vice-president of one of the largest and longest-lasting communes in North America for more than a decade...read more

By Frank Davey

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9781770410190 | E C W Pr, September 26, 2012, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Written by one of his friends and confidants, a close reading of bpNicholâs poetry aka bpNichol is the biography of the major Canadian poet bpNichol, who was a practising lay psychoanalyst and vice-president of one of the largest and longest-lasting communes in North America for more than a decade.

When Tish Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada's "Most Influential Literary Magazine"

Product Description: ?In the early 1960s, a group of students at UBC started a magazine called Tish. The name was purposefully an anagram of shit, in order to demonstrate their youthful and iconoclastic attitude. In many ways, Tish, and its editors, became the clear break from older Canadian poets and styles...read more

By Frank Davey

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9781550229585 | E C W Pr, April 1, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: ?

Bardy Google

Product Description: For thousands of years, formal compositional rules of rhyme, metre and rhetorical devices have shaped the language of poetry, creating Âmeaningâ through the interplay between these culturally determined aesthetic prerequisites imposed on its syntax, and the Âotherâ intelligence of the poet pushing against these constraints...read more

By Frank Davey

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9780889226364 | 1 edition (Talonbooks Ltd, April 29, 2010), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: For thousands of years, formal compositional rules of rhyme, metre and rhetorical devices have shaped the language of poetry, creating Âmeaningâ through the interplay between these culturally determined aesthetic prerequisites imposed on its syntax, and the Âotherâ intelligence of the poet pushing against these constraints.

All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek

Product Description: A passionate believer in the power of art and especially poetry to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing and teaching...read more

By Frank Davey (other contributor)

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9781554580392 | Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, April 24, 2008, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A passionate believer in the power of art and especially poetry to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing and teaching.

Back To The War

Product Description: More than 30 years in the making, Frank Daveyâs careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence his youthful imagination assembled growing up in and immediately after World War II is a work of astonishment.This is no lyrical work of sentimental nostalgia, no attempt to return to a romanticized Âsimpler past,â no rediscovery of Âthe child within,â but rather a careful reconstruction of Âthe child without...read more

By Frank Davey

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9780889225145 | Talonbooks Ltd, March 30, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: More than 30 years in the making, Frank Daveyâs careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence his youthful imagination assembled growing up in and immediately after World War II is a work of astonishment.

Mr. and Mrs. G. G.

By Frank Davey

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9781550225655 | E C W Pr, October 30, 2005, cover price $15.95

Miscellaneous:

9781554905652 | E C W Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $9.95

How Linda Died

Product Description: A husbandâs unflinching account of his wifeâs unravelling. How Linda Died is Frank Daveyâs powerful and painfully precise account of his wifeâs fight against an inoperable brain tumor. Lindaâs proud refusal to tell anyone about her deteriorating condition left Frank with few people to confide in...read more

By Frank Davey

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9781550224979 | E C W Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A husbandâs unflinching account of his wifeâs unravelling.

Miscellaneous:

9781554904976 | E C W Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $9.95

Cultural Mischief

Product Description: Cultural Mischief is a collection of prose poems on the hyperbolic absurdities of multiculturalism in action. Whether digging up the midden under Greg Curnoeâs house, revisiting Hiroshima, attending a dog breederâs show or retelling the history of Quebec from the point of view of its founding nations, the Mohawks and Algonquins, Davey delivers startling vignettes at their funniest and most thoughtful...read more

By Frank Davey

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9780889223646 | Talonbooks Ltd, July 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Cultural Mischief is a collection of prose poems on the hyperbolic absurdities of multiculturalism in action.

Canadian Literary Power

Product Description: Frank Davey is both participant and witness in his provocative examination of the nature of literary power as a part of the nature of literary power as a part of general cultural and political relationships in contemporary and Anglophone Canada.

By Frank Davey and Smaro Kamboureli (editor)

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9780920897577 | Newest Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Frank Davey is both participant and witness in his provocative examination of the nature of literary power as a part of the nature of literary power as a part of general cultural and political relationships in contemporary and Anglophone Canada.

Karla's Web: A Cultural Investigation of the Mahaffy-French Murders

By Frank Davey

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Hardcover:

9780670861538 | Special edition (Viking Pr, December 1, 1994), cover price $22.95

Reading Kim Right

Product Description: Book by Davey, Frank

By Frank Davey

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9780889223424 | Talonbooks Ltd, August 1, 1993, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Book by Davey, Frank

Post-National Arguments: The Politics of the Anglophone-Canadian Novel Since 1967

By Frank Davey

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Hardcover:

9780802027856 | Univ of Toronto Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $45.00

Paperback:

9780802068347 | Univ of Toronto Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $17.95

Popular Narratives

Product Description: This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our societyâs Âpopular narratives.â A revealing and witty, exploded view of our culture.

By Frank Davey

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9780889222854 | Talonbooks Ltd, July 1, 1991, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our societyâs Âpopular narratives.

The Louis Riel Organ and Piano Co

Product Description: A rambunctious long poem about North American myths, the West and the Canadian psyche, with appearances by Louis Riel, Wacousta, Davy Crockett and assorted disembodied literati.

By Frank Davey

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9780888010964 | Turnstone Pr, December 1, 1985, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A rambunctious long poem about North American myths, the West and the Canadian psyche, with appearances by Louis Riel, Wacousta, Davy Crockett and assorted disembodied literati.

Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics

Product Description: Margaret Atwoodâs writing, according to Davey, reveals not only an extraordinary facility with language, but also a deep mistrust of it as something shaped by an instrumental and largely male culture. Her language directs its readers to a hidden level of itself Â unspoken, symbolic, gestural Â and away from denotative meaning...read more

By Frank Davey

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9780889222175 | Talonbooks Ltd, January 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Margaret Atwoodâs writing, according to Davey, reveals not only an extraordinary facility with language, but also a deep mistrust of it as something shaped by an instrumental and largely male culture.

Edward & Patricia

By Frank Davey

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9780889102743 | Coach House Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $6.95

Louis Dudek and Raymond Souster

By Frank Davey

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9780295958316 | Univ of Washington Pr, July 1, 1981, cover price $5.95

9780888942647 | Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, December 1, 1980, cover price $5.95

The Arches: Selected Poems

Product Description: This volume includes work selected from six of Frank Daveyâs books of poetryÂWeeds, Four Myths for Sam Perry, Griffon, Arcana, King of Swords and The ClallamÂas well as the manuscript edition of his War Poems.

By Frank Davey

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9780889221741 | Talonbooks Ltd, July 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This volume includes work selected from six of Frank Daveyâs books of poetryÂWeeds, Four Myths for Sam Perry, Griffon, Arcana, King of Swords and The ClallamÂas well as the manuscript edition of his War Poems.

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