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Ballet of the Speech Organs: Bob Cobbing on Bob Cobbing An extended interview with one of the most innovative and challenging language artists of the century. The conversation was recorded in Britain in the early '80s, and published finally in the late '90s. An in-depth, frank, and revealing discussion of Cobbing's poetics and their manifestations, this is a vital historical document. Includes photos and scores. Limited edition, 150 numbered copies. 5 3/16 x 8 1/4, 36 pp., soft cover, end papers, saddle-stitched. ISBN 0-88658-096-x $12 |
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The second release by this exciting Canadian improvisatory music-text-sound ensemble. Sound poetry, poetic texts, and music tinged with classical, contemporary, and jazz inflections are blended in a creative synthesis, as these six accomplished performers fashion impromptu, dynamic, and distinctive sonic environments. David Grosse, double bass; Ed Pas, violin; Wilf Tucker, violin; Lia Pas, oboe and voice; Steven Ross Smith, voice; Roy Sydiaha, percussion; Chris Cawthray, percussion. CD, 8 selections, 66' 22". $17 |
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A landmark recording of Prince Albert's former poet laureate, made in his 91st year, this selection contains his finest work, read in a voice which, though showing its age, retains the spirit and elegance of the man and his poetry. The last recording of Hicks reading, before his demise in 1999. A poignant collection. Audiocassette, more than 40 poems. $15 |
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A major work by an innovative and uncompromising poet. Ten years of writing reflecting Japanese-Canadian poet Gerry Shikatani's travels in England, France, and Spain, woven into an extensive poetic record. Read episodically or as a continuous long poem, this subtle and distinctive work both engages and challenges the reader. It is a book certain to take its place as a significant contribution to Canadian letters, and indeed to English-language poetry. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. perfectbound. 410 pages. ISBN: 0-88658-093-5 Published collaboratively by Underwhich, Mercury Press, and Wolsak & Wynn Publishers $19.95 |
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A deluxe edition of this visual artist's startling encounter with the split page. Black on white drawings deal with the transition from page to page as a movement between planes. 8 3/4 x 12, 56 pp., printed on Carlyle Japan paper and casebound. Limited Edition. $40 Order from Underwhich Editions West only. Not Available from UE East. |
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High C: Selected Sound and Visual Poems 1965-1983 A uniquely visual voice on the Canadian concrete poetry scene. The late UU's wide ranging optic syntax is rendered here in deluxe quality which includes xerographic and silk-screen tip-ins. A collector's item. 7 1/4 x 10, 71 pp., perfectbound. Numbered limited edition. $18 |
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Visceral poetry, the legend at leg's end where, through pregnancy and birth, interior process becomes exterior language. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, 40 pp., perfectbound. $5 Order from Underwhich Editions West only. Not Available from UE East. |
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"...unique blend of politics, puns, and poetics ... the epitome of the narrative-as-life / life-as-narrative, neo-Kerouac vision ... Gilbert's most lucid and imaginatively focused book." John Moore, The Weekend Sun, Vancouver 6x9, 72 pp., perfectbound. ISBN: 0-88658-092-7 $13 |
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There have never been sonnets like these. A sly and amusing perspective on censorship and relationships. 5 1/4 x 8, 48 pp., perfectbound. $5 |
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Free music and vocal art by a quarter of improvisers using mouth, violin, clarinet and percussion, plus found instruments such as PVC pipe and dollar store toys. CrO2 audiocassette, 60 minutes. Edition of 150 numbered copies. $10 |
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An historic assemblage of texts, essays, statements, biographies, discographies, photos and more. Published in 1978, and still an informative document on some key practitioners of this 20th century art form. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4, 112 pp., perfectbound. $10 |
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Perceptive and witty poems delivered with a crisp edge of linguistic incisiveness. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, hand sewn, 12 pp., edition of 100 numbered copies. $7 |
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"Writing is the seedbed of irony," Davey proclaims in one of these eleven finely tuned prose-poems. Distinctive work from this important Canadian poet and critic. 4 3/4 x 7, 32 pp., saddle-stitched. Edition of 200. $4 |
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