Another day: Derksen v. America

Jeff Derksen at North of Invention; click <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/North-Of-Invention.php#Derksen">here</a> to view his performance. Photo by Aldon Nielsen. — Jeff Derksen at North of Invention; click here to view his performance. Photo by Aldon Nielsen.

About this feature

Jacket2 international editor Sarah Dowling’s feature devoted to the long history of experimental writing in Canada grew out of North of Invention, a festival hosted at the Kelly Writers House and Poets House in New York in January 2011 that presented ten Canadian poets for two days of readings, presentations, and discussion. Bringing together poets working across multiple traditions, the festival aimed to initiate a new dialogue in North American poetics, addressing the hotly debated areas of “innovation” and “conceptual writing,” the history of sound poetry and contemporary performance, multilingualism and translation, and connections to activism. This feature collects responses to the festival by a number of writers who take the conversation even further north of invention and begin a lively debate of their own.

Preface

Sarah Dowling

Another day: Derksen v. America
Ray Hsu
Reading M. NourbeSe Philip's 'Zong!'
Fred Wah
Response to Nicole Brossard
Sharon Thesen
Responding to Fred Wah
Christine Stewart
Addendum to her howlings
Steve Savage
Sound body, sound text
Jenny Sampirisi
The Wah in water
Meredith Quartermain
The Xenotext Experiment and the gift of death
Robert Majzels
Proc[edur]ession, a cross
Sonnet L'Abbé
M. NourbeSe Philip's unrecoverable subjects
Susan Holbrook
Constant renewal
Mark Goldstein
Why is Jordan Scott?
Jake Kennedy
Not against expression
Gregory Betts
Speaking together against the fixed
Melanie Bell
Lady Lingual
Sandra Alland

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