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Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at
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. He currently holds the David Gray Chair at the
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. McCaffery was born in
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, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending
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. He moved to
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in 1968. In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and bpNichol, forming the sound-poetry group, '' The Four Horsemen''. Some of McCaffery's poetry attempts to break language from the logic of
syntax In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...
and structure to create a purely emotional response. He has created three-dimensional structures of words and has released a number of sound and video works, often in collaboration with other poets.


Bibliography

*''Carnival'' – 1967–1975CARNIVAL, Steve McCaffery
*''postmark canadada'' – 1970 *''Ground Plans for a Speaking City'' - 1970 *''Transitions To The Beast'' – 1970 *''Maps'' – 1971 *''Collborations (with bpNichol)'' – 1972 *''Broken Mandala'' – 1974 *''Dr. Sadhu's Muffins'' – 1974 *''Ow's Waif'' – 1975 *''from The Abstract Ruin'' – 1976 *''Shifters'' – 1976 *''The Story So Four'' (edited with bpNichol) *''Crown's Creek'' (with Steven Smith) – 1978 *''Research on the Mouth'' – 1978 (cassette) *''Wot We Wukkers Want'' – 1978 (cassette) *''Sound Poetry: A Catalogue'' (edited with bpNichol) – 1978; reprinted 2010 *''Intimate Distortions'' – 1979 *''In England Nw That Spring'' (with bpNichol) – 1979; reprinted 1984 *''Canadian Pataphysics'' (edited with bpNichol) – 1980; reprinted 2000 *''The Perseus Project: Paleogorgonization and the Sexual Life of Fossils'' – 1981 *''Manicured Noise'' (with Richard Truhlar) – 1981 (cassette) *''Avoiding the Beautiful'' (with Whitney Smith) – 1982 *''Knowledge Never Knew'' – 1983 *''Panopticon'' – 1984 *''North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973–1986'' – 1986 *''Evoba'' – 1987 *''The Black Debt'' – 1989 *''Theory of Sediment'' – 1991 (nominated for a
Governor General's Award The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the governor general of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...
) * *''The Cheat of Words'' – 1996 *''Seven Pages Missing'' – 2000 (nominated for a
Governor General's Award The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the governor general of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...
) *''Imagining Language'' (edited with Jed Rasula) – 2001 *''Prior to Meaning: The Protosematic and Poetics'' – 2001 *''The Basho Variations'' – 2007 *''Language to Cover a Wall'' (edited with Michael Basinski & Karen Mac Cormack) – 2011 *''Tatterdemalion: A Sketch-Book for Syntax'' - 2014 *''Pataphonix: Selected Sound Poems'' - 2019 (CD) *''Carnival: The Complete Edition'' - 2021


with Four Horsemen (Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol)

*''Nada Canadada'' – 1972 (vinyl LP); reïssued 1977 (cassette); reïssued 2018 (vinyl LP) *''Horse d'Oeuvres'' - 1975 (book) *''Live In The West'' – 1977 (vinyl LP) *''A Little Nastiness'' – 1980 (book) *''Bootleg'' – 1981 (cassette) *''The Prose Tattoo'' – 1983 (book) *''2 Nights'' – 1988 (cassette)


Critical studies and reviews of McCaffery's work

;''Rational geomancy'' *


See also

*
Canadian literature Canadian literature is written in several languages including Canadian English, English, Canadian French, French, and various Indigenous Canadian languages. It is often divided into French- and English-language literatures, which are rooted in th ...
* Canadian poetry * List of Canadian poets


References


External links


McCaffery ProgramsBuffalo EPCRain Taxi interview with McCafferyRecords of Steve McCaffery are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
1947 births Living people 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian male poets Writers from Sheffield Language poets Academic staff of York University University at Buffalo faculty 21st-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian male writers Poets from Toronto {{Canada-poet-stub