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

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, forming the sound-poetry group, ''

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''. Some of McCaffery's poetry attempts to break language from the logic of syntax 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'' – 1967–1975 *''Dr. Sadhu's Muffins'' – 1974 *''Ow's Waif'' – 1975 * ''Sound Poetry – A Survey'' – 1978">U B U W E B :: Steve McCaffery "Sound Poetry – A Survey"
/ref> *''Intimate Distortions'' – 1979 *''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

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) * *''The Cheat of Words'' – 1996 *''Seven Pages Missing'' – 2000 (nominated for a

) *''Prior to Meaning: The Protosematic and Poetics'' – 2001 *''The Basho Variations'' – 2007

Critical studies and reviews of McCaffery's work

;''Rational geomancy'' *

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McCaffery ProgramsBuffalo EPCRain Taxi interview with McCafferyRecords of Steve McCaffery are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
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Bibliography

Critical studies and reviews of McCaffery's work

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