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Since the beginning of his poetic career in the 1990s, derek beaulieu has created works that have challenged readers to understand in new ways the possibilities of poetry. With nine books currently to his credit, and many works appearing in chapbooks, broadsides, and magazines, beaulieu continues to push experimental poetry, both in Canada and internationally, in new directions. Please, No More Poetry is the first selected works of derek beaulieu.
As the publisher of first housepress and, more recently, No Press, beaulieu has continually highlighted the possibilities for experimental work in a variety of writing communities. His own work can be classified as visual poetry, as concrete poetry, as conceptual work, and beyond. His work is not to be read in any traditional sense, as it challenges the very idea of reading; rather, it may be understood as a practice that forces readers to reconsider what they think they know. As beaulieu continues to push himself in new directions, readers will appreciate the work that he has created to date, much of which has become unavailable in Canada.
With an introduction by Kit Dobson and an interview with derek beaulieu by Lori Emerson as an afterword, Please, No More Poetry offers readers an opportunity to gain access to a complex experimental poetic practice through thirty-five selected representative works.
derek beaulieu is the author of five books of poetry, three volumes of conceptual fiction, and over 150 chapbooks. beaulieu teaches at the Alberta College of Art + Design and Mount Royal University.|Kit Dobson is an assistant professor of Canadian literature at Calgary’s Mount Royal University. He is the author of Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization (WLU Press, 2009) and co-author, with Smaro Kamboureli, of Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2012).
Table of Contents for Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu, selected with an introduction by Kit Dobson
Foreword, Neil Besner
Biographical Note
Introduction: Where Meanings Are Not Expected Kit Dobson
Please, No More Poetry
from with wax
rotunda
calcite gours
chamber of the felines
engraved deer
from fractal economies
problems in composition
untitled for christian (in apology)
portrait
framing the narrative
new directions in canadian poetry
from Flatland
from Local Colour
from chains
from Silence
from How to Write
Nothing Odd Can Last
Wild Rose Country
Uncollected Works
That's not writing
block
chapter O
june 26 2010
jan 27 2012
something else
from Extispicium
Afterword: An Interview with derek beaulieu Lori Emerson
Acknowledgements