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Down Time

by (author) Jeff Derksen

Publisher
Talonbooks
Initial publish date
Jan 1990
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889222786
    Publish Date
    Jan 1990
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

Down Time proposes a social self that is able to recognize the ironies and restrictions we live in without returning to a garrison mentality.

About the author

Jeff Derksen is a founding member of Vancouver’s writer-run centre, the Kootenay School of Writing, and worked as an editor of Writing magazine. His work has been anthologized in East of Main and Verse: Postmodern Poetry and Language Writing. As an editor, Derksen also organized “Disgust and Overdetermination: a poetics issue,” for Open Letter and “Poetry and the Long Neoliberal Moment” for West Coast Line. Derksen’s poetry and critical writing on art, urbanism and text have been published in Europe and North America. Formerly a research fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York, he currently works in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. He collaborates on visual art and research projects (focusing on urban issues) with the research collective Urban Subjects. Derksen’s Down Time won the 1991 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award at the BC Book Prizes. A selection from Dwell — “Host Nation, Host Society”—was nominated for inclusion in The Gertrude Stein Anthology of Innovative North American Poetry: 1993.

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Awards

  • Winner, Winner of the 1991 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize