Another Order: The Selected Works

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Another Order: The Selected Works gathers a dynamic and aesthetically diverse selection of Judith Copithornes writings, drawings, and hybrid publications from over fifty years of her practice. Another Order includes such key texts as the early visual poetry chapbooks Meandering and Rain, stanzaic collections such as A Light Character, prose such as the sequenced short fiction Hearts Tide, and essays that contextualize her imaginative oeuvre, which engages with subjects including gender, sexuality, desire, subjectivity, spirituality, and revolution. These collected works show Copithornes penchant for exploration as she moves across genres, including poetry, fiction, visual art, comics, and life writing, and does so through tireless experiments with media typewriters, pens, pencils, brushes, computer software, and more. The most substantial collection of Copithornes art and writing to date, Another Order captures what Lorna Brown describes as her embodied approach to text. Regardless of the medium or compositional approach, Copithornes work carries her inimitable touch and bears her distinctive vision that has played its own part in shaping the course of alternative literary production in Canada. A central artist, writer, community worker, and outspoken feminist in Vancouvers literary scene since the 1960s, Copithorne and her work remain a wellspring of inspiration for writers and artists today. Edited and introduced by Eric Schmaltz, this volume is a testament to Copithornes lifelong vision and provides evidence that she is among the leading avant-garde poets and artists of our time.

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Born in Vancouver in 1939 to an artistic family, Judith Copithorne is a poet and writer who has made notable contributions to concrete poetry and other intermedia contexts from the 1960s through to the present. In the 1960s and 1970s, she was identified as a member of Vancouver's "downtown poets" and was involved with Vancouver's alternative art venues, including Sound Gallery, Motion Studio, and Intermedia. She was published in the first issues of blewointment and Ganglia and continues to publish her work today with small or private presses. Her work has been anthologized in New Direction in Canadian Poetry (1971), The Cosmic Chef (1970), Four Parts Sand (1972), THE LAST BLEWOINTMENT ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 1 (1985), The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry, 1998-2008 (2012), and* Judith: An Anthology of Women Making Visual Poetry* (2021), among other places. Her work has been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions and is widely influential for multiple generations of poets living and working today.