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Clint Burnham (born 1962 in Comox,
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) is a
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writer and academic. He published the poetry collections ''Be Labour Reading'' (1997) and ''Buddyland'' (2000), and the short story collection ''Airborne Photo'' (1999), before publishing his debut novel ''Smoke Show'' in 2005. The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. The award is named after novelist and short story A short ...
in 2006. He was a
ReLit Award The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories."Three indie writers honoured by ReLit Awards". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 19, 2007. Founded in 2000 by Newfoundla ...
nominee in the poetry category in 2018 for ''Pound @ Guantanamo'' (2017), and in the short fiction category in 2022 for ''White Lie'' (2021). He has also published the poetry collections ''Rental Van'' (2007) and ''The Benjamin Sonnets'' (2009), and numerous academic non-fiction works on literature, art and architecture. He is a professor of English at
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. His poems "Rent-a-Marxist" and "An Evening at Home" were anthologized in ''Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets'' (2007).


Publications


As author

* ''Buddyland'' (1994) * ''The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory'' (1995) * ''Be Labour Reading'' (1997) * ''Airborne Photo'' (1999) * ''Steven McCaffery'' (2003) * ''Smoke Show'' (2006) * ''Rental Van'' (2007) * ''The Benjamin Sonnets'' (2009) * ''The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing'' (2012) * ''Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street'' (2016) * ''Pound @ Guantánamo'' (2016) * ''Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture'' (2018) * ''White Lie'' (2021)


As editor

* ''From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom'', co-edited with Paul Budra (2012) * ''Lacan and the Environment'', co-edited with Paul Kingsbury (2021)


References

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