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PresynapsiS

a dendrite of early CDN visual poetry.

 

edited by Gregory Betts.

 

Calgary, No Press, may 2o18. 5o copies.

 

5 x 7-1/2, 4 sheets white folded to 16 pp & sewn blue in 4 stitches (center pair doubled) into ivory xerographic bond wrappers, all except inside covers & inside pp of first sheet printed black laser with 3-colour process addition to p.4.

 

cover by Jack Chambers.

 

contributors:

Bertram Brooker, Jack Chambers, Graham Coughtry, Brion Gysin, Carole Itter, Robin Page, Harold Town.

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• "PresynapsiS presents a sampling of early Canadian visual poetry by visual artists, all of which was produced (or presumed to have been produced) before Pierre Coupey's "An Alphabet of Blood" (1964)."

 

• produced "for Kanada Koncrete: Material Poetries in the Digital Age 4-6 May 2018, University of Ottawa"

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