Steve McCaffery
Stephen McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. He currently holds the David Gray Chair at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He moved to Toronto in 1968.
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Steve McCaffery
- Born
- 1947 · Sheffield.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- university teacher · poet
- Languages
- English
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with Four Horsemen (Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol)
with Four Horsemen (Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol)
In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and bpNichol, forming the sound-poetry group, The Four Horsemen. Some of McCaffery's poetry attempts to break language from the logic of syntax and structure to create a purely emotional response. He has created three-dimensional structures of words and has released a number of sound and video works, often in collaboration with other poets.
• Nada Canadada – 1972 (vinyl LP); reïssued 1977 (cassette); reïssued 2018 (vinyl LP) • Horse d'Oeuvres - 1975 (book) • Live In The West – 1977 (vinyl LP) • A Little Nastiness – 1980 (book) • Bootleg – 1981 (cassette) • The Prose Tattoo – 1983 (book) • 2 Nights – 1988 (cassette)
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Steve McCaffery appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a writer and performance artist (born 1947). Steve McCaffery was born in 1947; the birthplace is Sheffield, United Kingdom, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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