Lan(d)guage: a sequence of poetics - Softcover

Belford, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189475929X ISBN 13: 9781894759298

Publisher: Caitlin Press Inc., 2008

Synopsis

In Ken Belford's fifth book of poetry he takes us on a journey through Canada's roadless north where he has discovered a third world gaze, looking out at industrialism and its impact on a region abundant in resources and natural beauty. Lan(d)guage is an unsentimental and non-reactionary perspective, a deep investigation of the psychology of both the electronic revolution and postmodernism. It is also a collective conversation having to do with the mobile geographies of inequality. The poems are a study in the social cost of privilege and what it means to have access to power, surveillance and identity.

About this title

From the Author:

Ken Belford was born to a farming family near Debolt, Alberta, and grew up in East Vancouver. In the late 1960s, he moved to the Hazelton area of Northwest British Columbia, where he homesteadedwith his wife and daughter. Together they operated a soft paths ecotourism business in the remote, roadless Nass River headwaters at Damdochax Lake. Remarried, he now lives in Prince George British Columbia with his partner, Si, and continues to blend the borders of poetics.Belford has published four previous books of poetry; 'Fireweed, The Post Electric Caveman, Pathways Into the Mountains', and 'ecologue'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Caitlin Press Inc.
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 189475929X
• ISBN 13: 9781894759298
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84