Sermon on the Mont: Louis Dudek’s Postmodernist Cantos
$2.50 – $5.00
In 1967 McGill English prof Louis Dudek proposed bringing Ezra Pound to the World Poetry Conference at Expo….Dudek in 1949 visited Pound at St. Elizabeths insane asylum where the court had incarcerated him after accepting a plea of insanity during his trial for treason.
Description
In 1980 Frank Davey, the first Canadian critic to use the term “postmodern” and to refer to himself as postmodernist, identified Louis Dudek as the first Canadian poet “to move significantly towards that multiplicity of possibilities we know today as postmodernism.” Other postmodernists agreed, while modernist critics either ignored Dudek or questioned his importance as a poet or critic. Because Dudek modeled his poetry and his activities as a publisher, editor and critic on the American fascist poet Ezra Pound, and was the main voice in Canada for Pound’s poetics, postmodernism has had to deal with the question of how deeply Dudek implicated himself, and thus implicates them, in fascism. Sermon of the Mont is a thoroughly researched examination of this question.
About the Author:
John is a Prince George author, poet and reviewer feared by many. His first works were published in the Semiahmoo High School newspaper and he enjoyed the attention so much he made writing his life’s work. He also offered his love for writing to hundreds, if not thousands of students who went through the halls of CNC. John’s publications include Small Rain and Other Art, a collection of short stories, Above the Falls, a novel and Tungsten John, his account of travel in northern Canada.
