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more... Poets Talk Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Mouré, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen, and Fred Wah This is a book that takes on the “hard questions” about the role of poets in society together with the challenges of reading “difficult” poetry. Using the relaxed format of the personal interview, Butling and Rudy open doors to some of the most challenging and important poetry of the 1990s. Robert Kroetsch talks about his dread of systems and his subversive use of sub-literary forms. Erin Mouré and Daphne Marlatt discuss the feminist trajectories in their work—how to jump circuits and activate alternative networks. Dionne Brand links her poetics to Marxist politics and Pan-African liberation movements. Annharte explains her use of humour to de-program Native people. Jeff Derksen wants to disarticulate and rearticulate linguistic and social systems, while Fred Wah emphasizes the role of poetry in changing how we see the world. Contributor s Pauline Butling,  Author Pauline Butling has published Seeing in The Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb (WLU 1997), numerous critical articles on contemporary poetry and poetics, and Writing in Our Time, Canada’s Radical Poetries: 1957-2003 (with Susan Rudy). Currently Lecturer Emeritus at The Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, she has also taught at Selkirk College and David Thompson University Centre (Castlegar and Nelson B.C.) and was a visiting scholar at the Women’s Studies and Gender Relations at the University of British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver where she is working on a family memoir. Susan Rudy,  Author Susan Rudy is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Calgary. She has served as Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Research and Teaching on Women at McGill University, as a Killam Resident Fellow at the University of Calgary, and as President of the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures / Association des literatures canadiennes et québécoise (1994-96). She is author of Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference, as well as several nationally distributed articles and reviews. With Nicole Brossard she is editing Fluid Arguments, a new collection of Brossard's essays in English. www.english.ucalgary.ca