Seven Pages Missing. Volume One: Selected Texts 1969-1999

McCaffery, Steve

ISBN 10: 155245049X / ISBN 13: 9781552450499

Published by Coach House, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seven Pages Missing. Volume One: Selected Texts 1969-1999
• Publisher: Coach House
• Publication Date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 155245049X
• ISBN 13: 9781552450499
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian Poetry

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Synopsis

In two massive volumes, Steve McCaffery, Canada's most challenging, experimental and innovative poet/critic amasses the best of his previously published and ungathered work.

From the early concrete and visual poems of Broken Mandala and Transitions to the Beast to the Ludwig Wittgenstein-inspired philosophical investigations of EVOBA, from the innovative novel Panopticon to the Governor General's Award-nominated Theory of Sediment and the recent The Cheat of Words, this comprehensive edition covers all phases of McCaffery's vast and heterogeneous poetic oeuvre. Many works that have previously only been available in small, privately circulated editions, such as Shifters and Every Way Oakly, are available in perfect-bound form here for the first time.

Volume 2, following in the wake of the extraordinarily successful first volume, collects the best of McCaffery's ungathered work. Along with selections from his concrete and visual poetry, this book contains sound poem and performance scores, excerpts from early chapbooks, 'pataphysical essays and sections of the often-discussed but rarely seen text The Abstract Ruin. For new readers and long-time fans of McCaffery alike, Volume 2 of Seven Pages Missing is essential reading.

About the Author

Born in England, poet, critic, editor, professor, and performance artist Steve McCaffery has lived in Toronto since 1968. As ex-member of the sound poetry ensemble The Four Horsemen, he-cofounded the Toronto Research Group with bpNichol in 1973. McCaffery is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, twenty chapbooks and four volumes of critical writings.