DOCUMENTS is the publishing imprint of the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal. Our aim is to publish work attesting to the multiplicity of practices, techniques, and modes of theoretical intelligence that inform contemporary poetics. If poetics refers to the theory of poetry (its forms, histories, critical categories) it is also the theory of poiesis (of making), and this larger field draws it beyond the boundaries of poetry as a specifically literary activity. As we study this tension between poetry and poiesis at the Centre for Expanded Poetics, we want to document its contemporary transformations by publishing texts that have shifted and sharpened the focus of our attention on philosophical problems, embodied histories, political contradictions, artistic experiments, and scientific models of structure and form.
DOCUMENTS 01. DEAD TIME
Intolerable Images and the Politics of Banality, by Devin Wangert
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DOCUMENTS 02. LOOKING FOR LIVINGSTONE
An Odyssey of Silence, by M. NourbeSe Philip
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DOCUMENTS 03. THEE DISPLAY
by Nora Collen Fulton
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DOCUMENTS 04. SLOW SCRAPE
by Tanya Lukin Linklater
introduced by Layli Long Soldier
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DOCUMENTS 05. THE BOOK
101 Definitions, edited by Amaranth Borsuk
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DOCUMENTS 06. POOR FRIDGE
by Mark Francis Johnson
with an afterword by Nora Fulton
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DOCUMENTS 07: MODERNIST AFFECT GRID
by Alisha Dukelow
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DOCUMENTS 08: OBSIDIAN SITUATIONS
by Tricia Middleton
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Each text in the series is printed in an edition of 250 on the Centre’s Risograph MZ1090, bound and distributed by our collaborators at Anteism in Montreal, and made freely available as a digital edition on the Centre’s website.
SERIES EDITORS Nathan Brown and Michael Nardone
PUBLISHER Centre for Expanded Poetics & Anteism Books
PRINTING Jessica Bebenek, Risograph MZ1090
BINDING & DISTRIBUTION Anteism, Montreal
DESIGN & LAYOUT Juliette Duhé (Editions 6-8), Kevin Lo (Editions 1-5).