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Book 3.1
Originally published in an edition of 100 copies for a class at the University of Alberta in 1976, Every Way Oakly is Steve McCaffery's homolinguistic translation of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons. The original edition, which appeared as a classy photocopied edition printed on letter-sized sheets and stapled along spine, has been unavailable since its publication. Over the years bits and pieces have appeared in anthologies and selected works, but the collection has never been reissued in its entirety. Until now. Playful and engaging, these poems stem from McCaffery's work with the Toronto Research Group's work on translation practice and theory.
Steve McCaffery is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and criticism, most recently Crime Scenes. Two further titles appeared in 2007: Paradigm of the Tinctures (with illustrations by Alan Halsey) and The Basho Variations. Slightly Left of Thinking. Poems and Postcognitions is set to appear in 2008. His monumental two volume selected Seven Pages Missing was published in 2002. After many years living in Toronto, he now lives in Buffalo where he is the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters and Director of the UB Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Steve McCaffery is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and criticism, most recently Crime Scenes. Two further titles appeared in 2007: Paradigm of the Tinctures (with illustrations by Alan Halsey) and The Basho Variations. Slightly Left of Thinking. Poems and Postcognitions is set to appear in 2008. His monumental two volume selected Seven Pages Missing was published in 2002. After many years living in Toronto, he now lives in Buffalo where he is the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters and Director of the UB Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Announcing the long-awaited reprint of Steve McCaffery's rare 1984 intervention into fiction (if "fiction" indeed this be). Taking its inspiration from Jeremy Bentham's "Panopticon Papers" McCaffery's Panopticon shatters all omnivison in a tour de force of formal innovation, theoretical comment and narrative critique. In Panopticon narrative stutters, repeats itself, sequence is deranged and complicated by a multi-media presence on the page of grids, film bands and acoustic channels. On its first appearance Charles Bernstein hailed the book as "as perhaps the exemplary �antiabsorptive work'" and William McPheron claimed its first appearance as "an extraordinary act of revolution and charity. Out of print for over twenty-five years, this new edition is enhanced by the inclusion of a revised CD recording of the book, its three voices, one male, two female teasing out the gender complexities of Panopticon. McCaffery has also added an Introduction to the book and has revised the text entirely.