Roger Farr
Roger Farr (born 1970) is a Cascadia poet, teacher, critic, editor and anarchist theorist. A former member of The Kootenay School of Writing and a founding director of The Pacific Institute for Language and Literacy Studies, he teaches at Capilano University in North Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory, and edits Parser (magazine).
Books
SURPLUS (LINEbooks, 2006)
N 49 19. 47 - W 123 8.11 (Recomposition Books, 2008) [with Reg Johanson and Aaron Vidaver]
Open Text: Canadian Poetry in the 21st Century (Capilano University Editions, 2008) [editor]
Selected Critical Writing
“Against Stratification: Dorothy Trujillo Lusk's Ogress Oblige and the Poetics of Class Recomposition." XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics 17 (2007): 34-49.
“Anarchist Poetics.” Fifth Estate 373 (2006): 34-38. [Revised version forthcoming in The Post-Anarchist Reader. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2009.]
“David Watson.” Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution in World History: 1600 to Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
“The Democracy Service." Review of Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary. Eds. Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr. The Poetic Front 1 2008.
“Fredy Perlman.” Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution in World History: 1600 to Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
“Intervox: Three Questions for Louis Cabri.” The Capilano Review 3:6 (2008).
“‘Insurrectionary Wilderness of the I': Phyllis Webb's Anarchist Poetics.” West Coast Line 45 (2005): 63-76.
“Poetic License: Hugo Ball and the Anarchists” (forthcoming Anarchist Studies, 2009).
“Raoul Vaneigem.” Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution in World History: 1600 to Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
“The Strategy of Concealment.” Fifth Estate 374 (2007).
“Surprise, Improvisation, & Unpredictability: An Interview with Fred Wah." The Capilano Review 2:48 (2006).
“Voices in a Public Place: A Docudrama in Seven Acts on/for Micro-radio in Canada.” Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada (forthcoming, New Star Books, 2009).
External links
- “Anarchist Poetics”
- “The Strategy of Concealment: Towards an Anarchist Critique of Communication” (revised)
- Interview and Reading from SURPLUS in Olympia, Washington
- 1 Review of SURPLUS by Stephen Collis]
- 2 Review of SURPLUS by Rob Mclennan]
- 3 Discussion of SURPLUS in “National Literatures in the Shadow of Neoliberalism” by Jeff Derksen]
- PARSER: New Poetry and Poetics
- Capilano University faculty page