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Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understand the meaning of "collection" as an entity and as an act.

Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Collectively, the chapters articulate a poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultural contexts.

In the early 2000s flarf poetry emerged as an avant-garde movement that generated disturbing and amusing texts from the results of odd internet searches. In Vlarf Jason Camlot plumbs the canon of Victorian literature, as one would search the internet, to fashion strange, sad, and funny forms and feelings in poetry.

Jason Camlot provides a context for the nineteenth-century critic's changing ideas about style, rhetoric and technologies of communication. Camlot contributes to our understanding of how nineteenth-century critics used their own work to speculate about the changing conditions for the production and reception of ideas.

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Poet, songwriter, and scholar Jason Camlot is Professor of English and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University.

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Lewis Carrol meets Alan Ginsberg. . . This is poetry about an angel-poet, wings paper-clipped, seeking spiritual food in the modern office cubicle. He pecks away at office-machinery (á la Dilbert) and dreams among his fellow stick men and women of being a Wordsworthian visionary -- or at least an "action figureen". Jason Camlot is a scholar of Victorian nonsense and humorous verse and these poems are a 'howl' amidst the "slithy borogroves" sor...

Jason Camlot's third collection of poetry walks an oscillating lyrical tightrope between realms of cosmopolitan sophistication and ribald hilarity. In these surprising poems high art and low art gather together, sometimes on the battlefield, sometimes at lover's leap. Camlot's poetry always maintains an evocative connection to the tender absurdities of our daily lives. He makes us laugh, nervously, at ourselves.

Language Acts" brings together twenty provocative essays on the state of English-language poetry in Qubec since 1976. Born and raised during this historically resonant period of Trudeauism, organized Qubecois nationalism, language legislation, and profound demographic and cultural change, Anglo-Qubec poetry has come of age in the 21st century as a literature with its own distinct arguments about itself, and its own poetical acts in language. "...

The Animal Library" marks the debut of a remarkable poet -- a poet of the flesh, his own and that of the animals he has lived with all his life, whether real or imaginary. Jason Camlot's father was a furrier and he grew up in a world where, inevitably, "baby fur gets in your eyes" or in "your mouth". In dreams, the poet becomes a whale corpse "washed up / on a very pale beach / and hundreds of flies came, and people, to see the tusk / spun lik...