{"product_id":"meanwhile-the-critical-writings-of-bpnichol-9780889224476","title":"Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of Bpnichol","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor bpNichol, who called himself a writer who writes about the act of writing,\" criticism was not only a means to address his own poetics and the textual practices of his generation; it was just as essential to his imagination as were his poems themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinally, after years of readers struggling to find or access many of Nichol's innovative critical writings, this much needed and anticipated volume makes it possible to follow Nichol through his thirty-year-long thoughtful engagement with the process of creation. With essays, reviews, talks on poetics, letters, notes, photographs, and excerpts from interviews, editor Roy Miki has put together a provocative record of bpNichol's always explorative approaches to the material conditions of textual production. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRepresenting a substantial collection of Nichol's critical writing from the mid-1960s up to the year of his death in 1988, \u003ci\u003eMeanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol\u003c\/i\u003e puts him, rightfully, on the vanguard of Canadian literature and critical theory. This collection is essential to our sense of Nichol not only as a writer, but also as a person of exemplary generosity, imagination, and intellectual range.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ebp Nichol\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebpNichol was one of Canada's most challenging and innovative poets. His writing spans a remarkable rangefrom concise allegories on a single letter, on through to sound poetry, fiction, theoretical investigations and culminating in his nine-volume poem \u003ci\u003eThe Martyrology\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eMeanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol \u003c\/i\u003e(2001), \u003ci\u003ebpNichol Comics\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eRational Geomancy\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci\u003eSelected Writing: As Elected\u003c\/i\u003e (1980) are also available from Talonbooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Talonbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50846437310738,"sku":"9780889224476","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_400290c8-8da6-4720-85c7-bef5037f7af6.jpg?v=1737363171","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/meanwhile-the-critical-writings-of-bpnichol-9780889224476","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}