This anthology of Canadian experimental writers evokes the rich and unexpected heritage of current Canadian fiction. It contains groundbreakingly ruptured, side-splittingly excessive, weirdly lucid, and above all, endlessly interesting writing. Contributors include Michael Ondaatje, Leonard Cohen, Graeme Gibson, Christopher Dewdney, George Bowering, and Matt Cohen, as well as innovators such as Ray Smith, J. Michael Yates, Gail Scott, Andreas Schroeder, Audrey Thomas, and Robert Zend.
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Christian Bök is an academic and poet whose most recent book, Eunoia, won the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. Margaret Atwood is one of the world's preeminent novelists and the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize.
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Look at it as an opportunity,
By Mark H (Montreal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ground Works: Avant-Garde for Thee (Paperback)
It's a collection of writing from radically different writers, writing in radically different styles. In fact, that's what this is an anthology of. Because of that, you may not read through the whole thing with a smile on your face. But that's not the point.It's here to introduce some of the Canadian writers who have tried to do something differently. Not every author is going to hit it off with every reader. They're not meant to. The treasure of this book is finding those who do. However, the fault (in my case anyway, which by no means is that of the books, in fact, it is surely one of the reasons the book was published) is, that once you find that writer (or writers), you may not be able to find any of their books. But perhaps that's just one more reason to have this collection. (I personally loved Gibson, Wynand, Schroeder, and Zend)
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