The French anarchist philosopher Emile Armand (1872-1963) wrote extensively in left-anarchist publications throughout the early and middle part of the 20th century, largely concerned with the question of how to live an anarchist life in our present conditions. A declared addressing of violence and the ‘bandit’ tradition in anarchist activism. Armand wrote extensively on the topics of love, sexuality, and their intersection with class-based politics. Though rejecting commercial publishing and remaining largely unknown outside anarchist circles, Armand’s ideas have influenced anarchist sexual politics. In The Amorous Comrade, Roger Farr introduces North American general readership to Armand’s ideas, and some of his crucial texts.

Described as "a poet of great heart and aesthetic/political commitment", Roger Farr is the author of five books of poetry: Surplus (2006), Means (2012), IKMQ (2012), a finalist for the BC Book Prize in Poetry in 2013, I Am a City Still But Soon I Shan't Be (2019), and most recently, After Villon (2022). The Amorous Comrade, a collection of essays on anarchism and sexual politics, is forthcoming in 2024.

A former member of the artist-run Kootenay School of Writing collective, his critical writing on avant-garde poetics and radical social movements has appeared in Anarchist Studies, Armed Cell, Fifth Estate, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, The Poetic Front, West Coast Line, and XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. He edited the three-volume anthology Open Text: Canadian Poetry and Poetics in the 21st Century (2008-2013), and was Critical Editor for Alice Becker-Ho's The Essence of Jargon: Argot & the Language of the Dangerous Classes (2015). Recent writing appears in Geist, SOME, SUBterrain, and Tripwire.

Since 2001, he has taught at Capilano University, where he has acted as a Board Member and Advisory Editor for The Capilano Review, Curator of the Open Text Reading Series, Editor of CUE Books, and Convenor of the Creative Writing Program.

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