CONVIVIALITIES: Dialogues on Poetics
Michael Nardone with Dana Michel, Gail Scott, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Shanzhai Lyric, Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes, The Culture and Technology Discussion and Working Group, Kevin Davies, Raven Chacon, Divya Victor, Carlos Soto Román, Cecily Nicholson, and Ryan C. Clarke.
Forthcoming in April, 2025 from Talonbooks. 240 Pages.
Purchase in Canada via Talonbooks, the University of Toronto Press, and Amazon. Purchase in the USA via Consortium Books and Amazon. Borrow.
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“This is a book about living and thinking together, about what we can make in and through conversation. Michael Nardone gathers a surprising array of interlocutors – across these necessary dialogues, we find new ways to situate art and thought within the communities, the politics, the environments that shape our lives.”
—Sarah Dowling, author of Entering Sappho and Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form
“In Convivialities, Michael Nardone and an exceptional band of interlocutors explore commonalities among conversation and poetics – writ broadly, writ most everywhere – through nuanced, capacious discussions about performance scores, exhibition and documentary practices, translation, Indigeneity, and activism. Some folks will be familiar, some perhaps not, but it’s all of interest, and timely as hell.”
—David Grubbs, musician and author of Good night the pleasure was ours and The Voice in the Headphones
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Convivialities: Dialogues on Poetics (2025)