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Appreciation of Louis Dudek
In addition to being one of Canada’s major poets and literary critics, Louis Dudek, who died Thursday, [March 22, 2001] was that rare thing in Canadian life: a public intellectual.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
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Functional Poetry
Tell em to open their mouths, you want to see their back teeth, their tonsils. Tell em to say AHHHH. Most Canadian poetry is written with the mouth closed. Ask them to write again when they think they’ve said something straight from the shoulder, no monkey business. Goddamm decoration. All icing and no cake. All cake and no meat. We want something to chew into in a poem, not just words.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
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Louis Dudek: Critical Overview and Context
There have been only three major articles published—all in Canadian Literature. Even the reviews are slim. His early books received the same two or three notices one would expect for a new poet, but his later works have seldom done much better.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
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The Sculpture of Poetry
Now that the feuds have died down it would no longer be appropriate for A. J. M. Smith to cry: “Layton shall tingle in Canadian air / And echo answer Dudek everywhere.” Omitting those polemics and parodies, salutary as they have been in stirring up the potage canadien…
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
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The First Person in Literature
After I completed my B.A. in literature at Sir George Williams University, I went to McGill to do my M.A. I chose McGill because I wanted to study with Louis Dudek. I remember that first day, finding Dudek's office. It was a large spacious room with a window facing Sherbrooke Street…
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
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Preface To Cerebus
The way to freedom and order in the future will lie through art and poetry. Only imagination, discovering man’s self and his relation to the world and to other men, can save him from complete enslavement to the state, to machinery, the base dehumanized life which is already spreading around us.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
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The Present Is All Too Present and The Past All Too Past
If you look at art shows, if you can still take any of the movies, or if you read books occasionally, you must know that the main feature of much present‑day art activity is its exclusive obsession with the present and the future. The past no longer exists, and no one is interested in the past. Granted the obvious fact that we are living in a time of rapid change, and that new technologies are constantly converging to transform our life into something inhuman and unimaginable, this obsession with the present and the future is the worst possible antidote to a vertiginous time of change. It is just about the opposite of what we need.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
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