Constructive Negativity: Prize Culture, Evaluations, and Disability in Canadian Poetry - Softcover

Neilson, Shane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1989287344 ISBN 13: 9781989287347

Publisher: Palimpsest Press, 2019

Synopsis

Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Disability Studies. CONSTRUCTIVE NEGATIVITY is a book of criticism without precedent in Canadian Literature. The result of over twenty years of participation in the nation's poetry community, it combines Shane Neilson's lived experience of dis/ability with prize culture theory in order to create that rarest of creatures: criticism as page-turner. In the first section of the book, Neilson repurposes Rilke's famous admonition, saying to poets "You must change your genre--meaning, you must write criticism in order for poetry to have a life in an era dominated by prize culture. Later, Neilson provides a starting point for others to engage with books of Canadian poetry using the lens of dis/ability, covering a range of texts and especially weighing in on the author's particular community--those with invisible disability.

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Constructive Negativity is a book of criticism without precedent in Canadian Literature. The result of over twenty years of participation in the nation?s poetry community, it combines Shane Neilson?s lived experience of disability with prize culture theory in order to create that rarest of creatures: criticism as page-turner. In the first section of the book, Neilson repurposes Rilke?s famous admonition, saying to poets ?You must change your genre? ? meaning, you must write criticism ? in order for poetry to have a life in an era dominated by prize culture. Later, Neilson provides a starting point for others to engage with books of Canadian poetry using the lens of disability, covering a range of texts and especially weighing in on the author?s particular community, those with invisible disability.

About the Author:

Shane Neilson is a poet, physician, and literary critic who lives with disability. He is the author of CONSTRUCTIVE NEGATIVITY: PRIZE CULTURE, EVALUATION, AND DIS/ABILITY IN CANADIAN POETRY (Palimpsest Press, 2019). Shane's poetry has received several accolades, including the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry in 2018; The Walrus Poetry Prize in 2017, and in 2011, he was shortlisted for the Trillium Poetry Prize. Shane lives in Oakville, Ontario.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palimpsest Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1989287344
• ISBN 13: 9781989287347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340