Photographs of a new work in progress … this piece is 36″ (3ft) x 192″ (16ft), letraset on paper.
a, A Novel has recently had a few small reviews – from Hamilton’s Gary Barwin, Darwin, Australia’s Christian Bök, and Germany’s Laurent Sauerwein . . .
new from NO PRESS:
The Xenotext
by Christian Bök
Produced in a limited edition of 50 copies, 25 of which are for sale.
$5.00ea.
Consisting of 2 poems, “Orpheus” and “Eurydice” — each mutually enciphering the other — The Xenotext forms the lodestone of Bök’s ongoing Xenotext project…
to order please email derek beaulieu at derek@housepress.ca
new from NO PRESS:
Poetry-By-The-Numbers (poems 1-7)
by Vanessa Place
Produced in a limited edition of 50 copies, 20 of which are for sale.
$4.00ea.
to order please email derek beaulieu at derek@housepress.ca
Each December I reflect upon the best of what i’ve read of titles published this year. Like previous years, this year’s “most engaging books” list reflects what i found most fascinating / useful / generative. Seek out these volumes, every one will reward the search. Your local, independent, bookstore can help….
This is the cream of the crop for 2017, seriously:
Poetry
Howe, Susan. Debths. (New Directions)
Métail. Michèle. Wild Geese Returning: Chinese Reversible Poems. (NYRB)
Queyras, Sina. My Ariel. (Coach House Books)
Rinne, Cia. L’Usage du Mot. (Gylendal)
Villoro, Federico Pérez and Christopher Hamamoto. Printer Prosthetic: Futura. (Printed Matter)
Wolf-Rehfeldt, Ruth. Signs Fiction. (Motto Books)
Fiction
Crowe, Michael. An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in GTA Online. (Studio Operative)
Desnos, Robert. The Punishments of Hell. (Atlas Press)
Garréta, Anne. Not One Day. (Deep Vellum)
Non-fiction
Briggs, Kate. This Little Art. (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
Hunt, Andrew and Nicola Simpson, eds. dom sylvester houédard. (Richard Saltoun)
Krukowski, Damon. The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World. (The New Press)
Scott, Jordan. Lanterns at Guantánamo. (SFU writers in residence chapbook series)
Photography (& more)
Zelazo, Suzanne, ed. Janieta Eyre: Incarnations. (Coach House Books)
The fourth of a projected 10 volumes, VEXATIONS Book 4: Xerox Workcentre 7845i decomposes the score of Erik Satie’s masterpiece through repeated photocopy degeneration, moving writing towards “furniture music.”
Each volume uses a different photocopier to degenerate Satie’s score – with startlingly unique results. Taken as a 10-book suite, the completed project will present 840 variations (84 variations per book over 10 books)
Purchase a copy here (limited edition of 26 copies; 176 pages $26 + shipping)
Pour se jouer 840 fois de suite ce motif,
il sera bon de se préparer au préalable,
et dans le plus grand silence, par des immobilités sérieuses
—Erik Satie
(“In order to play the theme 840 times in succession,
it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand,
and in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities”)
—Erik Satie
The previous three volumes of VEXATIONS remain in print and are available for order:
Vexations Book 2: Xerox Workcentre 5755.
Vexations Book 1: Lexmark XM9155
Just in time for Toronto’s Meet the Presses, I have two new chapbooks launched at that event.
Mark Laliberte and I have a collaborative book entitled asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther Press) and Gary Barwin has published my KOLOSS under his Serif of Nottingham imprint . . .
Ben Denzer’s Ice Cream Books has just featured a, A Novel … head over to his website to see his luscious portraits of books paired with delicious treats
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