Finding Nothing: The Vangardes, 1959-1975

by Gregory Betts

Experimental literature accelerated dramatically in Vancouver in the 1960s as the influence of New American poetics merged with the ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Vancouver poets and artists began thinking about their creative works with new clarity and set about testing and redefining the boundaries of literature. As new gardes in Vancouver explored the limits of text and language, some writers began incorporating collage and concrete poetics into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487505310
• ISBN13: 9781487505318
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher