Convivialities: Dialogues on Poetics

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Convivialities is a collection of dialogues with contemporary writers and artists conducted over great distances and extended periods of time. These conversations focus on poetics, both the theory of poetry (its forms, histories, and critical categories) and the theory of poiesis (i.e., making). The dialogues vary. Some are chatty, others theoretical. They model how we might talk, think, and listen together, both to one another and to the sites and greater communities where we are situated. Convivialities investigates how the collected writers and artists craft their works, the contexts in which they make them, the intellectual and artistic histories that inspire their own ways of working, and the cultural issues that are at the core of their practices. And, perhaps most of all, it asks how they continue to create in a world ravaged by climate crisis, economic crisis, settler colonialism, and imperialism.

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Michael Nardone is a poet and editor based in Montral. His works include Aural Poetics (2023), In Vivid Density (2023), the Documents on Expanded Poetics book series (2018 ), the critical journal Amodern (2013 ), The Ritualites (2018), Sonic Materialities (2016), and Transaction Record (2014). An active collaborator across artistic practices, Nardones recent and ongoing collaborations occur with Dana Michel, Dylan Robinson, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. His forthcoming works include a monograph on contemporary poetics and a translation of Abigail Langs La conversation transatlantique.