{"product_id":"finding-nothing-9781487505318","title":"Finding Nothing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinding Nothing explores the eruption of avant-garde writing in Vancouver that re-invented the culture of the city in the second half of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Finding Nothing is an excavation site for a special moment in Canadian poetic history.\" -- Ron Verzuh * \u003cem\u003eThe Ormsby Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Many scholars will find Finding Nothing especially valuable for its informational and bibliographical content. Detailed lists of ephemeral little magazines and literary publishers, tabulations of contributors to the major periodicals, a fulsome index, and an appended glossary of ‘Intermedia and Transdisciplinary Groups’ further enhance this landmark study of a transformational phase in Canada’s cultural history.\" -- Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University * \u003cem\u003eThe Canadian Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e“It is difficult to characterize Finding Nothing as anything less than a singularly important critical monograph that likely sets the terms of discussion in the field of Canadian avant-garde studies to come.” -- Scott Inniss * \u003cem\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    Introduction: Finding Nothing When American Literature Moved to Vancouver Finding Nothing (or, the Avant-Garde Flowering that Was the 1960s) The Problem of Nothing: A Short Interlude on the Theory of the Avant-Garde  The VanGardes    1. 1–19 Thoughts on TISH, 1961–1969 (A Document of Response)    2. The Birth of Blew Harmony: Aristotle, Olson, and Vancouver, 1959–1963  Disharmony: Bissett, Collage, and another Vancouver, 1959–1983  The End of Categories: The Vancouver Litter-rary Collage    3. Blew Collage At the Margins of the Garde Blewointment Collage into Canada Literature into Collage (in Vancouver)   4. A Line, A New Line, All One: Variant Narratives of Concrete Canada The Concrete Liturgy  Canadian Concrete  Other Narratives of Concrete Poetry  Judith Copithorne on Vancouver Concrete  Coda: The Visual Roots of the Alphabet   5. The Triumph of Surrealism: Magick Art in Vancouver Vancouver Deformance  The Surreal West Coast  Precursors and Early Forays: Surrealism in Vancouver  Canadian Literary Surrealism  Super-natural British Columbia: From Lawren Harris to David W. Harris  Post-revolutionary Surrealism  The Colour of My Dreams    6. Performing Proprioception: The Birthing Story as Public Discourse    7. Avant Now and Then: Locating the Post-Avant Hegemony and the Single Riot  Haling Taxi!  Locating the Post-Avant  Neruda, Chile, and Further Disenchantments    Conclusion: “we stopped at nothing”  Finding Nothing in the Avant-Garde Archive    List of Figures   Appendix A: Warren Tallman Elegy  Apendix B: Concrete Poetry  Appendix C: Glossary of Intermedia and Transdisciplinary Groups  Appendix D: Letter to the Editor of the Georgia Straight    Works Cited","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409142620503,"sku":"9781487505318","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487505318.jpg?v=1730505596","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/finding-nothing-9781487505318","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}