Publications by Roger Farr
SURPLUS
Surplus is embedded into a vital moment of poetry and poetics in North America where the very conditions that culture (and history) are produced under – the astonishing meanness and destructivenes of neoliberalism – calls daily for a poetics to roughen up the surface of the present and to ask the fundamental questions concerning where social change has and will come from. Surplus is an important book in the growing cultural front.” – Jeff Derksen
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Founded in 2003 by Roger Farr, Reg Johanson, and Aaron Vidaver, the Pacific Institute for Language and Literacy Studies (PILLS) carries out co-research and authorship in the intersecting areas of language, literacy and social reproduction. PILLS’ latest offering is N 49 19. 47 - W 123 8.11, a collaborative work of social documentary in the form of poetry, poetics, and photography. The book was commissioned by the Kootenay School of Writing for the Positions Colloquium, a gathering of North American avant-garde writers and artists held in Vancouver in August 2008.
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rfarr@capilanou.ca or 604.986.1911 local 2291