OPEN LETTER 12:8 Poetics and Public Culture. Strathroy: Open Letter, 2006. First Edition. Trade paperback. 211x135mm. 178pp. Very Good.

Edited by Melina Baum Singer and Lily Cho, this issue contains the transcripts of The Poetics and Public Culture in Canada Conference, held March 5 to 7, 2005 at The University of Western Ontario. Contributors include: Charles Bernstein, Fred Wah, Jeff Derksen, Candida Rifkind, Catherine Bates, Larissa Lai and Rita Wong, Christian Bok, George Bowering, Susan Knutson, Simona Bertacco, Stephen Cain, Lynette Hunter, Daphne Marlatt, and Frank Davey.

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