Steve McCaffery
Author
1947 –
Who is Steve McCaffery?
Steven McCaffery is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. He currently holds the Gray Chair at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull. He moved to Toronto in 1968. In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and bpNichol, forming the sound-poetry group, The Four Horsemen. 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.
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- Born
- Jan 24, 1947
Sheffield - Nationality
- Canada
- Education
- University of Hull
- Employment
- York University
- Lived in
- Sheffield
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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