Comments on: A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove – John Newlove http://notesandqueries.ca/taking-the-measure/ Canada's Literary Review and Opinion Magazine, Online. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:46:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Douglas Barbour http://notesandqueries.ca/taking-the-measure/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Douglas Barbour Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:34:51 +0000 http://cnq.sobuledesign.com/?p=39#comment-272 I agree, mostly, but think you're a little harsh about Jeff Derkson's essay, one of very few in the last few decades, when Newlove has, because he wasn't publishing a new book every year or so, kind of 'disappeared' from CanCrit. Derkson takes Newlove's work seriously, albeit from a highly 'theoretical' stance, & clearly recognizes the importance of the work. There's certainly an 'I' throughout, but I'd be very careful about saying it's a fully lyrically autobiographical one; so carefully constructed from poem to poem. I agree, mostly, but think you’re a little harsh about Jeff Derkson’s essay, one of very few in the last few decades, when Newlove has, because he wasn’t publishing a new book every year or so, kind of ‘disappeared’ from CanCrit. Derkson takes Newlove’s work seriously, albeit from a highly ‘theoretical’ stance, & clearly recognizes the importance of the work.

There’s certainly an ‘I’ throughout, but I’d be very careful about saying it’s a fully lyrically autobiographical one; so carefully constructed from poem to poem.

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