Douglas Barbour

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Biographical note:  Douglas Barbour lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He teaches creative writing, modern and Canadian literature at the University of Alberta. His books include: Visible Visions: Selected Poems (NeWest 1984) and Story for a Saskatchewan Night (rdcpress, 1989). He has published critical volumes on bpNichol, and Michael Ondaatje (Twayne, 1993). With Stephen Scobie he performs in the sound poetry duo Re: Sounding, and edited the CD, Carnivocal: A Celebration of Sound Poetry (Red Deer Press, 1999).

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EAN13:  9781876857028
ISBN-10:  1876857021
ISBN-13:  9781876857028
Author:  Douglas Barbour
Title:  Fragmenting Body etc
Series:  Salt Modern Poets
Product class:  BC
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  CTCH1
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  01-Aug-00
Extent:  112pp
Height:  216 mm
Width:  140 mm
Thickness:  7 mm
Weight:  172 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  IP
Price:  GBP 7.95
Price:  USD 12.95
Rights:  Rest of world
Not for sale:  US
Not for sale:  CA

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Table of contents:
Fragmenting body
Part One
the direction of animals and automatons
he is entitled—in short, his value, his price, his
already described. the Mother is the seat of a process
is established between the male sacrificer
months of the year, inhabited by the
is a loss of one of the very similarities
every productive insemination
whole cadaver or of a part seems a virtual
their place. ‘But, inexplicable wonder, by altering
and sculpture but also added wings to
in a pincer of fingers
transformed into another species or likeness, except
creature slain by Bellerophon in
G.—The Seriousness of the bear served
autonomy. There is no need for any reminder of the excesses
Part Two
truth, but we should seriously
But they also urged them, in doing so, to raise themselves morally
it wax and
the idealogical
clarify the
to incite the
purified joi.
into fabric
to the human body can be found in
explanation, in ‘dephysiologizing’ psychology,
fearful
backand forth
control over what
not deny the rupture caused by death or resurrection, is not a mere perpetutation
Part Three
the importance and the multiple meanings of
decently dressed and a couple
the wombe shall be inverted yet it will never make the virile member
place
off differently: from the blood proceed the bones
in writing
leader displayed on a pike
In this society, described as com-
the beardless philosopher
to her couch. The socieal context, not the act itself
also disturbed by the
body eter-
by a network of prohibitions whose function
of monarchic power. Each
fallen from his place, astray in a corner of the universe
point of death, already condemned life
of the naked goddess in
Paratactical manouevres
visions from nolan:
wargaming:
homing:
paying the paratax:
for bpNichol: these misrememberings
cloud tones: martyred music:
i
ii
iii
iv
cloud town, again:
[a(nother)version: therapy]
read dream
song for barrie
v
vi
“We live in the memory of our friends.”
Black Hole of Memory
Bird of Paradise
Notes

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creature slain by Bellerophon in

the late night show
on every screen every scream
narrates a bodys parting

but that creature never existed

ever existent    it haunts our nights
now more than ever

how many imagined & imaginary
odd bodies can
we afford to break
down

‘the Balkanized body’
a new study in psycho somatic
engineering     engineered

Review quote:  Barbour composes with the trained ear of a musician who’s got something to say before the lights go out forever.

Roy Miki