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POETRY
88 Pages, 8 x 10
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.05)
Publication Date: November 2015
ISBN 9781931824620
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Nov 2015)
By means of a dissonant fluidity and form Parsival conveys its readers along by now familiar trajectories: power, knowledge, absurdity, oppression, aporia, horror and uncertainty that comprise our contemporary. Parsival’s quest of course is a non-quest (there is no Grail) or perhaps an inquest into the complexities of our century’s paideuma. The pages’ layout and typographic variations in style and size are designed to evoke Mallarmé’s in Un Coup de Des. Yet Parsival morphs into Un Coup de Dada or even Un Coup de DNA intertwining four separate texts that can be read discretely or helixed into the composite fifth.
>Steve McCaffery has been twice nominated for the Governor General’s Award and is the author of more than 40 books of poetry and criticism. English born and a long-time resident of Toronto, he was a co-founder of the Toronto Research Group (TRG), the sound poetry ensemble Four Horsemen, and the College of Canadian “Pataphysics. Since 2004 he has been the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the University at Buffalo.