Social Poesis: The Poetry of Rachel Zolf
By Rachel Zolf
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Rachel Zolf
Rachel Zolf’s writing practice explores interrelated materialist questions concerning memory, history, knowledge, subjectivity, and the conceptual limits of language and meaning. She is particularly interested in how ethics founders on the shoals of the political. Her books of poetry include Neighbour Procedure (2010); Human Resources (2007), which won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award; Masque (2004), finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry; and Her absence, this wanderer (1999). Among her many collaborations with other artists, she wrote the film The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women's Picture, directed by New York artist Josiah McElheny, which premiered at Art Basel Miami 2012. She has taught at New York’s The New School University and the University of Calgary.
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Social Poesis - Rachel Zolf
Social Poesis
The Poetry of Rachel Zolf
Social Poesis
The Poetry of Rachel Zolf
Selected
with an
introduction by
Heather Milne
and an
afterword by
Rachel Zolf
Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. This work was supported by the Research Support Fund.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Zolf, Rachel, [date]
[Poems. Selections]
Social poesis : the poetry of Rachel Zolf / selected with an introduction by Heather Milne and an afterword by Rachel Zolf.
(Laurier poetry series)
Selection of poems by Rachel Zolf, reprinted from volumes she has published in the past. Includes bibliographical references.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77112-411-9 (softcover).—ISBN 978-1-77112-412-6 (EPUB).—
ISBN 978-1-77112-413-3 (PDF)
I. Milne, Heather, [date], editor II. Title. III. Title: Poetry of Rachel Zolf. IV. Series: Laurier poetry series
Front-cover image from the documentation of a Toronto performance in 2014 of Janey’s Arcadia. Reproduced courtesy Rachel Zolf. Cover design and interior design by P.J. Woodland.
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Table of Contents
Foreword, Brian Henderson and Neil Besner
Biographical Note
Introduction, Heather Milne
from Her absence, this wanderer
note
from Her absence, this wanderer
from Masque
note
the first time her father asked her
Dear Mr. Z-d
after she came out as a lesbian
You’re a media man—
she’s hungry, so hungry, calling, calling,
from Human Resources
note
Given enough input elements, a writing machine can spew about anything
New performance ratings a bit of a moving target
Adrienne Rich used the Communicating Bad News template
Anne Carson on Celan
The mystical white crow, the sword and the flower that shattered stone
Trapped in this high-performance culture
You had trouble accepting gifts
from The Tolerance Project
note
Poem 28 – We
Poem 34 – Homophobic poseur buffoon + narcissistic geometrical zip = nurture
Poem 37 – Satisfactions are gaps in desire
Poem 38 – Child soldier
Poem 39 – A tongue listens to a war
Poem 40 – American picture
from Neighbour Procedure
note
a priori
The neighbour procedure
car bomb
Loss has made a tenuous we
In the beginning he broke on his own initiative
Talkback / Grounds for deletion
L’amiral cherche une maison à louer
Mixed crowd
Acknowledgement
from Janey’s Arcadia
note
Janey Settler’s Pastoral Oasis
The Red River Twang
from Concentration
from Janey Settler-Invader
Falk Stalks Janey
Face to Face to Face
What Said Author Says of the Canadian North-WASP [sic]
Afterword, Rachel Zolf
Acknowledgements
Foreword
The Laurier Poetry Series was conceived in 2002 as a means to celebrate Canadian poetry and to introduce new readers to the richness and diversity of its poets. Rather than curate another large anthology that featured only a few poems by each poet, we thought it a good idea to suggest the real range of a poet’s work by enlarging the selection. Our anthology would have to comprise many volumes. But why stick with a many-volumed anthology? Why not create a series of small and affordable selected
s? Each volume could be introduced by a knowledgeable and reader- and poet-friendly critic in greater depth than in normal anthologies, and each could provide space for the poet to respond or participate in an additional way by contributing an afterword such as no standard anthology could offer.
Readers could pick and choose which poets they wanted to explore; instructors could also pick and choose combinations of volumes in a package for their students—and could change this selection from semester to semester. And the volumes could reach an international audience. Each would also have the potential to open out onto other books by the featured poet.
That was the blueprint. The Series was launched in 2004, with Catherine Hunter’s selection of the poetry of Lorna Crozier, Before the First Word. There have been over twenty-five volumes since, offering introductions to a wide range of poets and poetries, and more are in the works. The Laurier Poetry Series is now the most comprehensive collection of Canadian poetries in print anywhere. Most volumes are also available as digital editions.
The consummate professionalism of the team at Wilfrid Laurier University Press, especially Managing Editor Rob Kohlmeier, has ensured that these sometimes technically tricky volumes are presented accurately and beautifully.
What continues to inspire us about the LPS is its reception across the country. The love and art and passion and intimacy that twenty-five-plus editors and twenty-five-plus poets have brought to their volumes; the innumerable hours and conversations and meetings, the thousands of emails between and among poets and editors and the staff at WLU Press; the generous reviews in the country’s journals; the reception in classrooms and beyond: all of this eloquently speaks to the joyful proliferation of poetry in Canada today.
With each new volume, LPS hopes to continue to recognize the growing provenance of this wealth, the wide range of