Clint Burnham
Canadian writer and academic
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Clint Burnham (born 1962 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and academic.[1]
Clint Burnham | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) |
| Occupation | Writer and academic |
| Nationality | Canadian |
He published the poetry collections Be Labour Reading (1997)[2] and Buddyland (2000), and the short story collection Airborne Photo (1999),[3] before publishing his debut novel Smoke Show in 2005.[4] The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2006.[5]
He was a ReLit Award nominee in the poetry category in 2018 for Pound @ Guantanamo (2017),[6] and in the short fiction category in 2022 for White Lie (2021).[7]
He has also published the poetry collections Rental Van (2007) and The Benjamin Sonnets (2009), and numerous academic non-fiction works on literature, art and architecture. He is a professor of English at Simon Fraser University.
His poems "Rent-a-Marxist" and "An Evening at Home" were anthologized in Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets (2007).
Publications
As author
- Buddyland (1994)
- The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory (1995)
- Be Labour Reading (1997)
- Airborne Photo (1999)
- Steven McCaffery (2003)
- Smoke Show (2006)
- Rental Van (2007)
- The Benjamin Sonnets (2009)
- The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (2012)
- Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street (2016)
- Pound @ Guantánamo (2016)
- Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture (2018)
- White Lie (2021)
As editor
- From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom, co-edited with Paul Budra (2012)
- Lacan and the Environment, co-edited with Paul Kingsbury (2021)