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" Apostrophe / "
compiled by Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry.
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BL
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989309
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b743679
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| Main Entry
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Kennedy, Bill,1969-
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| Title & Author
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Apostrophe /\ compiled by Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry.
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| Publication Statement
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Toronto, Ont. :: ECW Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (293 pages)
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128194260X
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: 1554902665
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: 1554907225
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: 1554909503
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: 9781281942609
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: 9781554902668
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: 9781554907229
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: 9781554909506
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155022722X
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9781550227222
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| Contents
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Cover -- Copyright -- Apostrophe (ninety-four) -- Layer two.
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| Abstract
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You are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome / you are a man / you are a little confused / you are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome . . ." Apostrophe" is: a) a figure of speech in which a person, an abstract quality or a nonexistent entity is addressed as though present b) a poem written in 1993 in which every sentence is an apostrophe c) a program--apostropheengine.ca--based on the 1993 poem that hijacks search engines in order to extend the poem infinitely d) a book of poetry written using the website The answer: e) all of the above. Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry's Apostrophe contains all of these things, except the search engine (but you can visit that any time you like). Each line from the original poem has become the title of a new poem generated by the program's metonymic romp through the World Wide Web. Phrases rub against each other promiscuously; poems and readers alike come to their own conclusions. The results are by turns poignant, banal, offensive and hilarious, but always surprising and always unaffected. In other words, everything a book of contemporary poetry should be, and then some. Poet and scholar Charles Bernstein has suggested that Apostrophe may be related to Freud's notion of the uncanny, a somnambulistic drift that appears aimless yet somehow always returns to "you." Apostrophe is an entirely new kind of poetry: neither stable nor unstable, sections come and go, but the overall shape of the poem remains vaguely familiar, like a trick of memory.
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Canadian poetry-- 21st century.
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Prose poems, Canadian.
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Canadian poetry (English)-- 21st century.
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Poésie canadienne-anglaise-- 21e siècle.
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Canadian poetry.
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POETRY-- Canadian.
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Prose poems, Canadian.
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| Dewey Classification
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C811/.608
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PR9199.4.K458A88 2006eb
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Wershler-Henry, Darren S., (Darren Sean),1966-
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