%0 Journal Article %T From C to C: a prepositional poetics %A Fred Wah %J Ilha do Desterro %D 2010 %I Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina %X "From Sea to Sea" is an imago mundi that has defined Canada's national consciousness from "the last spike" to the present. It has served to hegemonically override a range of prepositional possibilities that poetry and poetics in our time has used to relocate a citizen imagination. This talk is a critical and poetical reading of some of the most dynamic prepositions in this cultural lexicon that might help locate a more situational discourse of public selves and relationships. %K Prepositional Poetics %K Cultural Lexicon %K "Sea" and "C" (letter and musical chord) %U http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/16376