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White Light

by (author) Brian Dedora

Publisher
The Mercury Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1987
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920544525
    Publish Date
    Jan 1987
    List Price
    $8.00

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Description

"White Light is a fine example of how language rethinks itself and leads to the profound realization that it functions at many different levels. Dedora's writing moves not only beyond what some people see as fashion, but beyond the day to day, where ‘...in that sphere phrases and lines ring out untouched yet not unconnected to the daily press...’"? Lola Lemire Tostevin
"A profound meditation on the origins of awareness of thought in a single consciousness. White Light lies outside genre precisely because it seeks to deal with an awareness that comes before writing, while acknowledging the inherent contradiction in writing that down. A moving and eloquent work."? bpNichol

About the author

British Columbia-born Brian Dedora is a writer and performance artist whose work has been anthologized and widely published in special and limited editions. His books include A Few Sharp Sticks (2011), A Slice of Voice at the Edge of Hearing (2008), which was shortlisted for the ReLit and George Ryga Awards, With WK in the Workshop (1989), as well as White Light (1987). Dedora lives in Toronto, Canada and Granada, Spain. Connect with Brian at www.briandedora.com.

Martin Rodriguez-Gaona (Lima, 1969) has published the books of poetry Efectos personales (Personal Effects, Ediciones de Los Lunes, 1993), Pista de baile (Dance track, El Santo Oficio, 1997), Parque infantil (Playground, Pre-Textos, 2005), Codex de los poderes y los encantos (A Codex of Powers and Spells, Olifante, 2011) y Madrid, línea circular (Madrid, circular line, La Oficina de Arte y Ediciones, 2013 / Winner of the City of Cáceres Poetry Prize ), and the essay Mejorando lo presente. Poesía española última: posmodernidad, humanismo y redes (Improving the present. Latest Spanish poetry: postmodernism, humanism and networks (Random House, 2010). He has been a fellow at the Foundation Residencia de Estudiantes during 1999-2001, and worked as literary advisor for “?this institution until 2005. He has also won the International Fellowship of poetry Antonio Machado de Soria in 2010. His work translator of poetry includes versions like La sabiduría de las brujas de John Giorno (Wisdom of the Witches, DVD Ediciones, 2008) and Pirografía (Pyrography: Poems 1957-1985 (Visor, 2003), a selection of ten books by John Ashbery.

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