{"product_id":"to-the-barricades-paperback","title":"To the Barricades - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Collis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTo the Barricades\u003c\/em\u003e we move back and forth between historical and contemporary scenes of revolt, from nineteenth-century Parisian street barricades to twenty-first-century occupations and street marches, shifting along the active seam between poetry and revolution. At once elegy (poems dedicated \"to\" past revolutionary figures and scenes) and a call for renewed struggle in the here and now, this collection of \"social lyrics\" and serial explosions seeks to drive apathy from the field and to recover forgotten \"radical ideas\" amidst our current \"amnesiac condition.\" Avant-garde technique is donated to lyric ends (the expression of social affects), as Arthur Rimbaud presides and the commune is reconvened in Vancouver's streets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo the Barricades\u003c\/em\u003e continues Collis's \"life\" poem, \"The Barricades Project,\" which also includes \u003cem\u003eAnarchive \u003c\/em\u003e(2005) and \u003cem\u003eThe Commons\u003c\/em\u003e (2008). Both the anti-archive of the revolutionary record and the dream of a once and future \"commons\" upon which all can equally dwell continue to shape these poems where words are hurried bricks thrown up as \"barricades\" in language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Dear effects of \/ tireless treason \/ the social only \/ shuffles if you \/ move your feet \/ we've learned this \/ in a place invaders \/ called Vancouver \/ even if we are only \/ a few and even if \/ it rains on the day \/ of the demo\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Collis is the author of five books of poetry, including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eOn the Material\u003c\/i\u003e (Talonbooks, 2010) and three parts of the ongoing \"Barricades Project\" \u003ci\u003eAnarchive\u003c\/i\u003e (New Star, 2005), \u003ci\u003eThe Commons\u003c\/i\u003e (Talonbooks, 2008), and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eTo the Barricades\u003c\/i\u003e (2013). An activist and social critic, his writing on the Occupy movement is collected in \u003ci\u003eDispatches from the Occupation\u003c\/i\u003e (Talonbooks, 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollis is also the author of two book-length studies, \u003ci\u003ePhyllis Webb and the Common Good\u003c\/i\u003e (Talonbooks, 2007) and \u003ci\u003eThrough Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism\u003c\/i\u003e (ELS Editions, 2006), as well as the editor, with Graham Lyons, of \u003ci\u003eReading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation\u003c\/i\u003e (Iowa University Press, 2012). He teaches contemporary poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University, where he was a 2011\/12 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 8.21 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772964176160,"sku":"9780889227477","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ce1c043e3ef78bc9f5654caec00d5a55.webp?v=1780417373","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/to-the-barricades-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}