Shall We Dance That One Around Again? by Stephen Bett

$14.99

 

Shall We Dance That One Around Again? pulls together a sampler from just a few of internationally known Canadian poet Stephen Bett’s twenty-two books; and it debuts new poems from two works in progress, the minimalist book-length serial poem Lift Off, and Broken Glosa, which takes the “glosa,” a Renaissance Spanish Court form, and breaks it down to its contemporary essentials, riffing on postmodernist and post-postmodernist poets in ways that are as surprising and inventive as they are richly textured while remaining fresh and playful.

 

Stephen Bett is one of the coolest contemporary poets, and a legend internationally. He has a very interesting linguistic technique with a penchant for jazz and words, and if you ask me, jazz-styled writing is where the best of the best is happening right now.

–Karl Jirgens, Rampike

 

I am constantly struck by how strong and pliant Stephen Bett’s line is, the image understated, the music so subtle it dances almost unnoticed. 

–Ken Cathers

 

 

 

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Shall We Dance That One Around Again?

by Stephen Bett

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-798-2

2018

Stephen Bett is a widely and internationally published Canadian poet with 22 books in print. His earlier work is known for its sassy, edgy, hip… caustic wit―indeed, for the askance look of the serious satirist… skewering what he calls the ‘vapid monoculture’ of our times. His more recent books have been called an incredible accomplishment for their authentic minimalist subtlety. Many are tightly sequenced book-length ‘serial’ poems, which allow for a rich echoing of cadence and image, building a wonderfully subtle, nuanced music.

Bett follows in the avant tradition of Don Allen’s New American Poets. Hence the mandate for Simon Fraser University’s “Contemporary Literature Collection” to purchase and archive his “personal papers” for scholarly use.

He is recently retired after a 31-year teaching career largely at Langara College in Vancouver, and now lives with his wife Katie in Victoria, BC.

For more information and reviews of his books please see stephenbett.com

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