Anglophone New Brunswick Poets • by Stephanie Yorke 1

Hamilton Arts & Letters   INTRODUCTION: In his forward to a collection of essays on Alden Nowlan’s work, Gregory Cook frames Nowlan’s counterhegemonic1 poetics as a riposte to the intellectual and economic elite. Cook compares Nowlan favourably to poet John Ashbery, setting (working-class) Nowlan’s universal aesthetic appeal against the (elite) aesthetics of Ashbery. Cook suggests that “the means of production being owned by the ruling class, literary theory tends to bow to the notion that literature, and therefore its creation in print, belongs to the educated middle class” (14).  [  >>>>>  FORWARD ]   + [Distillate © HA&L + Stephanie Yorke {from the Greek bios} -- the course of a life.]