This volume collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by a major figure in contemporary poetry -- one of the most innovative and conceptually challenging poets of the last twenty-five years. In essays that are wide ranging, richly detailed, and complex in their surp[...]
"The Darkness of the Present" includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the "contemporary" in the field of poetics. In the eleven essays of "The Darkness of the Present," poet and critic Steve McCaffery argues t[...]
Poetry. Originally published in an edition of 100 copies for a class at the University of Alberta in 1976, EVERY WAY OAKLY is Steve McCafferys homolinguistic translation of Gertrude Stein's TENDER BUTTONS. The original edition, which appeared as a classy photocopied edition printed on letter-sized s[...]
Fiction. Announcing the long-awaited reprint of Steve McCaffery's rare 1984 intervention into fiction (if "fiction" indeed this be). Taking its inspiration from Jeremy Bentham's "Panopticon Papers" McCaffery's PANOPTICON shatters all omnivison in a tour de force of formal innovation, theoretical com[...]