Social Poesis: The Poetry of Rachel Zolf
About this ebook
Heather Milne's introduction examines Zolf's compositional strategies, tracing the evolution of Zolf’s writing from an autobiographical poetics, in which Zolf as subject/speaker is locatable, toward a poetics that moves beyond the self to address political and ethical relations among subjects of geopolitics and settler colonialism. In her afterword, Zolf focuses on her most recent work, in which poems are composed almost entirely from archival sources and enact a kind of collective assemblage of enunciation.
About the author
Rachel Zolf's five books of poetry include three published with Coach House Books. She won a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and was finalist for several other prizes. Zolf's literary papers are housed at York University and Simon Fraser University. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
Heather Milne is an associate professor at the University of Winnipeg. She is the author of Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics (2018) and co-editor of Prismatic Publics, Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics (2009).
