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Stephen Collis is the author of five books of poetry, including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize--winning On the Material (Talonbooks, 2010) and three parts of the ongoing "Barricades Project": Anarchive (New Star, 2005), The Commons (Talonbooks, 2008), and the forthcoming To the Barricades (2013). An activist and social critic, his writing on the Occupy movement is collected in Dispatches from the Occupation (Talonbooks, 2012). Collis is also the author of two book-length studies, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks, 2007) and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism (ELS Editions, 2006), as well as the editor, with Graham Lyons, of Reading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation (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.
“Barricades are a type of resistance and, depending on who’s
throwing them up, an act of creativity as well as control. Collis
uses brush-by, glint, examination-in-perspective, and roundabout
reconnaissance to measure our times … Unafraid of the truth and
unafraid to opine on the effect of truth, Collis has emerged as one
of Canada’s finest writers. Like climate change and tar sands, like
the decimation of honey bees with Neonicotinoid, like the essence
of Edward Snowden’s revelations, we ignore Collis’s words at our
own peril.” – ARC Poetry
“What is not a chronicle of scuffling feet over rebellious streets,
what is not a meditation on spontaneous committee work, not a study
of occupying civic spaces, not an expression of cascading
revolutionary moments, what is the ‘not’ of all that, but that is
still forged from all that? It is precisely this swirling charybdis
of emotive power that To the Barricades ventures to traverse,
harnessing the potential of collective transformation. Continuously
in danger of being recouped and serialized by topic and theme,
genre, and discourse, in the crosshairs of being literaturized,
Collis keeps the forms of social address fluid, stealthy,
street-smart, and on the run. Like Neruda’s Canto General, To the
Barricades succeeds in marshalling forth ‘cities of words’ as yet
un-citied. These lines are graffitiable.” – Rodrigo Toscano
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