WCL 25/3

West Coast Line 25/3 Winter 1991 "You Devise. We Devise.": A Festschrift for Phyllis Webb

Guest Edited by Pauline Butling

Table of Contents

Bibliographic Key

A Brief Chronology

Pauline Butling

Preface

Phyllis Webb

from Hanging Fire

Smaro Kamboureli

"Seeking Shape. Seeking Meaning": An Interview

Daphne Marlatt

"The proper response to a poem is another poem"

Lorna Knight

Phyllis Webb, Canadian Poetry and Publishing in the Early 1950s

Susan Rudy Dorscht

poems dressed in a dress and naked: sweet lines from phyllis

Lola Lemire Tostevin

"They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance"

Brenda Carr

Genre Theory and the Impasse of Lyric? Reframing the Questions in Phyllis Webb's Lyric Sequences

Ann Munton

Excerpt from an Interview

Phyllis Webb and Daphne Marlatt

A Selected Correspondence

Phyllis Webb

Three Radio Talks

Douglas Barbour

Late Work at the Kitchen Table: Phyllis Webb's Water and Light

Susan Knutson

Chiasmus, Chasm, Chi: Phyllis Webb's Semantic Geometry

Libby Scheier

Kicking the Dogma under the Table

Stephen Scobie

"Breaking": Extracts from "The Kiel Diary"

"For Phyllis": Tributes

Heather Pyrcz

Margaret Atwood

George Bowering

Gary Geddes

Erin Mouré

Sharon Thesen

Roy Kiyooka

Timothy Findley

Janice Williamson

The Feminine Suicide Narratives of Phyllis Webb

Aritha van Herk

And silence is also a nakedness (an inter-text to Naked Poems)

Fred Wah

from Music at the Heart of Thinking