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Janey's Arcadia : errant ad^ent$res in Ultima Thule / Rachel Zolf.

by Zolf, Rachel, 1968-

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Coach House Books, c2014.

Canadian poetry -- Women authors.

Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

9781552452950 (paperback)

Alternate title:

Janey's Arcadia : errant adventures in Ultima Thule

121 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"It is true Canada is not exactly a Utopia, Ltd., for there is hard work and a rough, raw, erudite wail against the postmodern loss of meaning and emotion to be done before comfort or affluence are built. I used to have a lot of idyl fantasies inwrought with Indign traits about your too bruised andscared surface looking into the seeds of time. How now, my masters! Smacks not this one-acted poem of the great national prosaic life of Arcady?" Zolf's fifth book assembles a pirate score of error-ridden historical and current documents missionary narratives, immigration pamphlets, settler writings to decry the ongoing violence of Canadian colonialism. It stars Janey Settler-Invader, a foul-mouthed mutant slouching toward the Red River Colony, along with a host of cacophonous, carnivalesque appropriations. Rachel Zolf's writing practice explores interrelated materialist questions concerning memory, history, knowledge, subjectivity, and the conceptual limits of language and meaning. She is particularly interested in how ethics founders on the shoals of the political. Her books of poetry include Neighbour Procedure (2010); Human Resources (2007), Masque (2004), and Her absence, this wanderer (1999). Among her many collaborations with other artists, she wrote the film The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women's Picture, directed by New York artist Josiah McElheny, which premiered at Art Basel Miami 2012. She has taught at New York's The New School University and the University of Calgary. She now lives in Toronto.

Canadian poetry.

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