Just a quick post—I am in essay writing/all nighter mode so I can’t waste time. I simply wanted to note the enfolding of two of my worlds: academics and triathlon.
The current issue (Autumn 2009) of Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review features an academic article by Suzanne Zelazo entitled:
Sport as Living Language: bpNichol and the Bodily Poetics of the Elite Triathlete.
The abstract follows:
This article traces the emergence of a link between the embodied aesthetics of sport and avant garde poetry. By teasing out the specifics and nuances of the sport of triathlon, its tripartite nature is offered as a paradigm for a new biopoetical triumvirate of performance: that of sport, gender, and poetics. Through inscribing the permutations of identity construction as perpetual becoming, both sport and art create opportunities for experimenting with new ways of being and experiencing the world. By developing a critical understanding of sensation and perception, this paper broadens hegemonic notions of conception and abstraction, creating an apposite lens for expanding the field of performance theory.
I’ll let you know my thoughts on the article once I get my hands on it.
COMING SOON: Post on the Mt. Stewart 10 Mile XC race. Mud, blood, and good times!
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