DAVEY, Frank; MUNTON, Ann [Eds]. OPEN LETTER 6:2-3. Long-liners Conference Issue. Toronto: Open Letter, First Edition. 8vo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. Very Good 335pp. The Proceedings of the Long-liners Conference on the Canadian Long Poem, York University, Toronto, May 29-June 1, 1984. Contributions include: Introduction by FRANK DAVEY/ANN MUNTON; Keynote Address: The Death of the Long Poem by ELI MANDEL; Documentary and the Long Poem, Countertextuality in the Long Poem by FRANK DAVEY; Authority and the Margins of Escape in Brebeuf and his Brethren by MAGDALENE REDEKOP; I and I: Phyllis Webb's "I, Daniel" by STEPHEN SCOBIE; The Lang Poem: the cosmology of the Long Poem in Contemporary Canadian Poetry by ROY MIKI; Autobiography and the Long Poem: The Long Poem as Poetic Diary by ANN MUNTON; Beyond Autobiography by LOUIS DUDEK; Long Poems by JAMES REANEY; Alternatives to Narrative: The Canadian Documentary: an Overview by DOROTHY LIVESAY; Stone Hammer Narrative by GEORGE BOWERING; Alternatives to Narrative: the Structuring Concept by M. TRAVIS LANE; Things I Don't Really Understand About Myself by bp NICHOL; Poetics of the Long Poem: Going the Distance by GARY GEDDES; Whole to Part: the Ends of Ideologies of the Long Poem by CHARLES BERNSTEIN; For and Against Pound: Polyphony and Ekstatic Form by DENNIS LEE; Making Strange Poetics by FRED WAH; Locality and the Long Poem: From the Hollow, Blasted Pine: Centrifugal Tendencies in Adam Kidd's The Huron Chief by D.M.R. BENTLEY; On Not Saying Uncle: Kroetsch and the Place of Place in the Long Poem by RUSSELL BROWN; Locality as Writing: a Preface to the "Preface" of Out of Place by SMARO KAMBOURELI; Epi(pro)logue: In Pursuit of the Long Poem by BARBARA GODARD.