The Captain Poetry Poems

bp Nichol

The Captain Poetry Poems
Format
Paperback
Publisher
BookThug
Country
Canada
Published
15 September 2010
Pages
60
ISBN
9781897388600

The Captain Poetry Poems

bp Nichol

Poetry, comic book art, pop culture, concrete poetry, the lyric, the myth of the cowboy, even the myth of the poet-hero: these are just some of the avenues explored by bp Nichol in The Captain Poetry Poems. In this short portrait of the poet as a young man, our hero is a dilemma: part fabrication and part confession, Cap is a character created by these poems that extends their author into realms of possible identities. Who is he? Is he a poet? Is he a hero? Is he the bearer of heretofore important and unknown knowledge about the world? Written at a time when questions about what poetry might be; when questions about what the figure of the poet might be, The Captain Poetry Poems shows Nichol working through some of the clichs inherent to both his craft and his identity. Playful, even at times silly, but never without the human intelligence Nichol is best known for, these poems may not be the best work in Nichol’s oeuvre, but their experiments reveal important considerations for poets and their approach to craft. Originally published in 1970 as a mimeo production by bill bissett’s seminal blewointment press (the same year that Michael Ondaatje issued his documentary on Nichol titled The Sons of Captain Poetry ), smatterings of The Captain Poetry Poems have appeared over the years but never in their entirety. Now, in official book form for the first time, these poems will at last be available to scholars, poets, and other fine human beings. With an introduction by bill bissett and an afterword by George Bowering.

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