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Poetry. Steven Ross Smith is one of Canada's preeminent sound poets. He is also one of the few poets in Canada currently engaged in writing a life-poem (a long poem that encompasses a life) --EMANATIONS is the sixth chapter of that project. Smith bends, confuses, and disintegrates the fundamental premises of poetic and fictive creation-working language, narrative, and meaning like sculptural material. EMANATIONS: FLUTTERTONGUE 6 marks Smith's return to verse form, while being a further engagement with composition by sound and its visual placement on the page. These poems "emanate" from specific works by other poets, including bpNichol, Sylvia Legris, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Lisa Robertson. In this charged and frenetic work, the dominant themes are nature's precariousness, social conundrums, and poetics.
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STEVEN ROSS SMITH is a multi-disciplinary sound and performance poet, writer of fiction, poetry, book reviews, and artist profiles. He has served as publisher/editor with Underwhich Editions, Business Manager of
Grain magazine, and as Managing Editor with Banff Centre Press and editor of the online magazine
Boulderpavement. He has been a Writer-In-Residence in a variety of long and short-term residencies, including the twelve-month terms at Saskatoon Public Library and Weyburn Public Library. Smith has been publishing literary work since the 1970s, appearing in one hundred periodicals and thirteen books, including one non-fiction title, two collections of short fiction, and ten poetry books.
