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Perfect for those pursuing the new trend in academia: the cross over between sciences and art: McElroy incorporates string theory.
Table des matières
Book Structure:
1) Some Julian Days comprises poems that employ the cumulative dating of the Julian Day system as an overarching structure within which the poetics of saggital time are evoked.
2) The excerpt from the poem sequence Ordinary Time (an ongoing piece inspired by Charles Olson's poem "In the Hills South of Capernaum, Port") works with the structure of the Anglican lectionary and its cycle of daily and weekly readings (called "propers") from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament to manifest the poetry of a portion - an arc, if you will - of the complete two year-long cycle of readings from sacred texts.
3) Imaginary Time escapes from all of that, deferring both the immediate contexts of the narrative arrow and eternally cyclic.
A propos de l'auteur
Born in Metz, France, poet Gil McElroy grew up on air force bases in Canada and the United States. He studied English Literature at Queen's University in Ontario. His poems and other works have been published in countless periodicals throughout North America since the late 1970s; issued in a number of self-published chapbooks, broadsheets, and one-of-a-kind book works; and anthologized in Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003), Side/Lines: A New Canadian Poetics (Insomniac Press, 2003), and Written in the Skin (Insomniac Press, 1999). He currently lives in Colborne, Ontario with his wife Heather.
McElroy has also been an independent curator and freelance art critic for 20 years, organizing exhibitions for public art galleries and museums in Canada and writing art criticism for magazines in Canada, the United States and Australia. A selection of his catalogue essays and reviews was published as Gravity & Grace: Selected Writing on Contemporary Canadian Art (Gaspereau Press, 2001) and in the anthology CRAFT Perception and Practice: A Canadian Discourse (Ronsdale Press, 2002). His show ST. ART: The Visual Poetry of bpNichol pays tribute to one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Originally mounted at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum in Charlottetown, P.E.I. in May through October, 2000, it later moved to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia before touring the country throughout 2001. McElroy's curatorial essay accompanying the exhibition also won the Christina Sabat Award for Critical Writing in the Arts.
Résumé
The poems in this collection examine how our experience of movement through space is what lends time its dimensionality, from childhood memories of the Cold War to the Julian calendar, making manifest the arc of a complete year-long cycle of both “sacred” and “ordinary” time, returning to our ongoing attempts to guarantee the security of our place in the world.
