Barking & Biting by Sina Queyras

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Summary

This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras's poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of genre, gender, and criticism of poetry. Erin Wunker's introduction situates Queyras's poetry within ongoing debates around genre and gender.

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Barking & Biting by Sina Queyras

This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras's poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of genre, gender, and criticism of poetry. Erin Wunker's introduction situates Queyras's poetry within ongoing debates around genre and gender.
Sina Queyras is an accomplished poet and essayist. She edited the first anthology of Canadian poetry published by an American press (Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets). Between 2005 and 2007 she co-curated the path-breaking feminist Belladonna* reading series in New York and was instrumental in bringing Canadian and American poets into conversation. She has published six books of poetry and a novel, Autobiography of Childhood (2011). She received the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award for Lemon Hound (2006). Her most recent book of poetry is MxT (2014).

Erin Wunker is the chair of the board of the national non-profit social justice organization Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (CWILA) and co-founder, writer, and managing editor of the feminist academic blog Hook and Eye: Fast Feminism, Slow Academe. She teaches Canadian literature and culture at Dalhousie University. Her book The Feminist Killjoy Handbook will be published in the fall of 2016.
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ISBN 13 9781771122160
ISBN 10 1771122161
Title Barking & Biting
Author Sina Queyras
Series Laurier Poetry
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Year published 2016-03-30
Number of pages 100
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