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Down Time
By Jeff Derksen
Down Time proposes a social self that is able to recognize the ironies and restrictions we live in without returning to a garrison mentality.
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Down Time proposes a social self that is able to recognize the ironies and restrictions we live in without returning to a garrison mentality.
Jeff Derksen
Jeff Derksen is a founding member of Vancouver’s writer-run centre, the Kootenay School of Writing, and has worked as an editor of Writing magazine. As an editor, Derksen also organized “Disgust and Overdetermination: a poetics issue,” for Open Letter and “Poetry and the Long Neoliberal Moment” for West Coast Line. His poetry and critical writing on art, urbanism, and text have been published in Europe and North America, including in the anthologies East of Main and Verse: Postmodern Poetry and Language Writing. His Down Time won the 1991 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and a selection from Dwell – “Host Nation, Host Society” – was nominated for inclusion in the anthology The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North American Poetry: 1993. Formerly a research fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York, Derksen currently teaches in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. He also collaborates on visual art and research projects (focusing on urban issues) with the research collective Urban Subjects.
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- Dimensions 96 pages, 5.00 x 8.00 x 0.30000000000000004 in
- Published January 1, 1990
- Publisher Talonbooks
- Category Poetry
- Keywords Canadian
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