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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is a good biography and piece of cultural history, but for several reasons I found it a depressing read. The survival strategies of an avant-garde poet reduced to writing scripts for Canadian kiddie TV are simply not that uplifting. Accounts of infighting among the members of a dippy psycho-therapeutic commune (Therafields) are not much more inspiring. And the specimens of bpNichol's writing given here are frankly disappointing, and project a "You kind of had to be there" vibe. When a writer does not come across as particularly talented in his own biography, a sympathetic one at that, well that's telling. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Written by one of his friends and confidants, a close reading of bpNichol's poetry aka bpNichol is the biography of the major Canadian poet bpNichol, who was a practising lay psychoanalyst and vice-president of one of the largest and longest-lasting communes in North America for more than a decade. Though he died at the young age of 44, Barrie Nichol was internationally influential as a visual poet and sound poet. No library descriptions found. |
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