Canadian Poetry: The Proceedings Of The Leonard Cohen Confrence

CANADIAN POETRY

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEONARD COHEN CONFERENCE

"SINGER AS LOVER, RECONSIDERED"

Edited by E.F. Dyck

Title	Canadian Poetry: The Proceedings Of The Leonard Cohen Confrence
Author	Edited by E.F. Dyck
Country & Year	Canada 1993
Publisher	University of Western Ontario, Canada
Pages	131 pages.
Notes	ISSN 0704-5646. Paperback. Canadian Poetry series, no. 33, Fall/Winter, 1993.
Summary	Proceedings of the Leonard Cohen Conference at the Red Deer College on October 22-24, 1993. The articles are also available online at www.canadianpoetry.ca The conference at the Arts Centre of the Red Deer College was an international and interdisciplinary celebration of Cohen's contributions to fiction, drama, poetry, music, dance and performance. Red Deer is about 80 miles from Calgary. The Conference offered keynote speakers (Stephen Scobie and Ira B. Nadel), eight prominent speakers, concert of Cohen's songs (several artists, including Perla Batalla), Cohen Coffeehouse and the world premiere of "The New Step", a play published in "Flowers for Hitler", performed by the students of the college. Contents: Introduction by E.F. Dyck Keynote address: The Counterfeiter Begs Forgiveness, by Stephen Scobie On the Novel: Writing Around the Holocaust: Uncovering the Ethical Centre of Beautiful Losers, by Norman Ravvin The Telephone Dance & Mechanical Ecstasy in Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers, by Nicole Markotic Beyond Mummy and the Machinery: Leonard Cohen's Vision of Male Desire in Beautiful Losers, by Paul Nonnekes On the Poetry: The Mistress' Reply to the Poet, by Joan Crate How postmodern is Cohen's poetry? by Clint Burnham Re-membering the Love Song: Ambivalence and Cohen's "Take This Waltz" by Charlene Diehl-Jones Interior Landscapes and the Public Realm: Contingent Mediations in a Speech and a Song by Leonard Cohen, by Winfried Siemerling Cohen's Noos by Fred Wah Keynote address: Ten or More Questions I Should Have Asked Leonard Cohen by Ira B. Nadel Reading Leonard Cohen: Reprise, by Birk Sproxton