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    You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence: Craft Discourse and the Common Reader in Canadian Poetry Book Reviews
    You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence: Craft Discourse and the Common Reader in Canadian Poetry Book Reviews
    You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence: Craft Discourse and the Common Reader in Canadian Poetry Book Reviews
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    You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence: Craft Discourse and the Common Reader in Canadian Poetry Book Reviews

    By Donato Mancini

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    While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is at stake in the reviewing of poetry? What fantasies are inherent to the practice? How is poetry itself produced in the reviewing of poetry? Why has the reviewing of poetry remained largely invisible to self-reflexive critique? These are some of the many questions You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence dares to ask in its query to determine if poetry reviewers can claim to have the authority they imagine they have over their chosen subject. As a retort to the retrograde trend that is poetry reviewing in Canada, You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is the first book to detail the production and structure of an "aesthetic conscience" and demonstrate how this functions as the dynamic administrative apparatus of any aesthetic ideology. In short, this book opens for the first time a new and desperately needed channel in Canadian criticism.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateOct 21, 2012
    ISBN9781927040478
    You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence: Craft Discourse and the Common Reader in Canadian Poetry Book Reviews

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