Holy Beep!

edited by Natalie Zina Walschots.

 

Calgary, Filling Station Publications Society & No Press, 19 july 2oo7. [8o copies?]

 

4-9/16 x 7, 11 sheets white bond folded with plain red bond endleaf to 4o pp in selfwrappers, all except inside covers & 2 pp (2, 38) printed black laser with 3 colour process additions to front cover & 7 pp (4, 7, 14, 15, 24, 3o, 31).

 

cover photograph by Derek Beaulieu.

 

26 contributors ID'd:

Miekal And, Jonathan Ball, Gary Barwin, Derek Beaulieu, Christian Bök, George Bowering, Dennis Cooley, Judith Copithorne, Amanda Earl, Kevin McPherson Eckhoff, Jesse Ferguson, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Laurie Fuhr, Sharon Harris, Kenneth Jeffery, Karl Jirgens, Rob McLennan, Gary Morse, bpNichol, Shane Plante, Ross Priddle, Mathew Timmons, Andrew Topel, Dan Waber, Natalie Zina Walschots, Darryl Whetter.

 

Nichol inclusion:

i) Blues, in braille-approximation translation by Sharon Harris (p.19, concrete poem)

 

also includes:

ii) "HH", by Derek Beaulieu (front cover photograph; melting Hs for Nichol)

iii) Unwar, by Miekal And (p.3, poem, 9 lines; uses Nichol's Alphhabet as typeface, here adapted from Barbara Caruso's silkscreen lettering to a computerized font; elsewhere published as UNWAR MANIFESTO)

iv) Why did the chicken cross?, by Gary Barwin (p.6, poem, 28 lines; lines 1-4 quotes lines 1 to part of 4 of Nichol's the martyrology book 5 chain 1)

v) initial process-doubling bp, by Judith Copithorne (p.12, visual poem in 6 parts)

vi) saints, listen (a variation on bpNichol's talking about strawberries all the time), by Amanda Earl (p.13, poem, 12 lines)

vii) Blues Amoire Spirally Agitated, by Sharon Harris (p.2o, visual poem; quotes Nichol's Blues as "translated" by Harris in (i) above, repeats & overlays them patterned after Darren Wershler-Henry's Amo(i)re & "spins" the result in the manner of Steve Venright's Spiral Agitator "variegraphs")

viii) No Hs were harmed in the production of this poem, by Karl Jirgens (p.21, visual poem; depicts an upper case H as absent center in a ground formed from the letters "bp")

ix) bpNichol's "talking about strawberries all of the time," variation 1, by Rob McLennan (p.22, poem, 11 lines; built entirely from parts of the text of Nichol's Talking About Strawberries All Of The Time:

––1. "naming naming a noun is how you're found out his name is his" (parts of lines 3, 8, 1o & 11 as McLennan line 1; parts of 11, 13 & 16 as line 2, part of 21 as line 3, parts of 23 & 24 as line 4, parts of 24 & 27 as line 5, line 3o as line 6, parts of 34 & 35 as line 7)

––2. "madness is language is how you use it[...]" (parts of lines 2 & 3 as line 8, part of 3 as line 9)

––3. "strawberries julia are best fresh better than frozen straw berries &" (line 8 & part of 12 as line 1o)

––4. "now" (lines 1-2 as line 11))

x) bpNichol's "talking about strawberries all of the time," variation 3, by Rob McLennan (p.23, poem, 17 lines; built entirely from parts of the text of Nichol's Talking About strawberries All Of The Time:

––1. "naming naming a noun is how you're found out his name is his" (parts of lines 1 & 3 as line 1, part of 4 as line 2, parts of 4 & 7 as line 3, parts of 8 as line 4, parts of 8 & 9 as l;ine 5, parts of 11 as line 6, parts of 13 as line 7, part of 19 as line 8)

––2. "madness is language is how you use it[...]" (parts of line 4 misquoted as line 9, parts of line 1o as line 1o)

––3. "strawberries julia are best fresh better than frozen straw berries &" (part of line 7 as line 11, part of 8 as line 12)

––4. "now let me say this again" (parts of lines 1 & 4 as line 13, parts of 7 or 8 as line 14)

––5. "this is so unlike the rest it's exactly the same it is the plain" (part of line 5 as line 15, part of 5 as line 16)

––6. "using your voice is complicated this is a simple thing if you say" (part of line 6 as line 17))

xi) bp, by Kevin McPherson-Eckhoff (p.24, concrete poem; portrait of Nichol based on Linda Charyk Rosenfeld's photograph (Nichol looking up from under his brows) using the text from Nichol's Waiting)

xii) The Ityology Books 1 & 2, by Shane Plante (pp.27-28, prose; built entirely with 177 quotes containing the word "it" from Nichol's the martyrology books 1 & 2 from

––1. "ah reason there is only feeling" (line 9)

––2. "all in a night i am taken" (parts lines 11, 13 (x2), 15, all of 26, parts of 34, 35, 45 (missed line 31))

––3. "arose early (7:30)" (part of oine 5)

––4. "as there are words i haven't written" (parts of lines 14, 16)

––5. "as there is a dream i must awake from" (parts of lines 19, 21)

––6. "As to what auguries attended his birth" (parts of lines 2-3)

––7. "awoke this moment for the first time" (parts of lines 3, 2o, 23, 25)

––8. birthday (part of line 11)

––9. "can you say that you died?" (parts of lines 1, 9)

––1o. "christ i wanted to be there" (part of line 6)

––11. "clearly the mirror focus blur" (part of line 5)

––12. "cloud together" (parts of lines 4, 5, 14, 16, all of 17)

––13. "death is real or sensed is as death is always" (part of line 9)

––14. "drift then as dreams" (part of line 4, all of 2o)

––15. "early morning victoria's streets" (line 15, part of 26)

––16. "end it here" (line 1)

––17. "end ryme" (part of line 5)

––18. "father i speak as i seldom know" (part of line 8)

––19. "few choices" (line 1o)

––2o. "for friendship's sake my house is set" (parts of lines 2o, 41 (missed line 12))

––21. "how can i offer keys" (part of line 5)

––22. "how could you? saint reat's been" (2 parts of line 4)

––23. "how do you tell a story?" (part of line 7)

––24. "how shall i call you father who have left me here" (part of line 3)

––25. "if there is a land which is the mind" (parts of lines 2, 8)

––26. "i get lost" (part of line 4)

––27. "i knew when i headed home tonight" (part of line 3)

––28. "insane line of pubic hair" (line 8)

––29. "in that brownness which is the mind" (part of line 3)

––3o. "in the dressingroom he removes his make-up" (part of line 9)

––31. ""in the midst of life we are in death" draco" (line 12, part opf 26)

––32. "in this country it was all caves" (part of line 1)

––33. "i should drink less than i do eat less" (parts of lines 2, 4)

––34. "is nothing but a history" (lines 12, 16)

––35. "is there a confusion unstated or unsen" (part of line 1o, all of 23, 24)

––36. "it all ends" (line 1, part of 5, all of 6)

––37. "it is another world vaguely seen" (parts of lines 1, 6)

––38. "it is the minute haunts you" (part of line 1)

––39. "it is the soft green growing things" (part of line 1)

––4o. "i wanted to end it" (part of line 1)

––41. "i was always too successful at disguises" (part of line 7)

––42. "lady i know nothing more" (part of line 4)

––43. "later there is quietness & love" (parts of lines 12, 13)

––44. "left this morning for the spring" (part of line 4)

––45. "lift up your eyes my lady" (line 12, parts of 15, 36, 41, 45, all of 72, part of 73 (misses first part of 73))

––46. "live in the present" (parts of lines 2, 7)

––47. "living as you did in winter worlds" (part of line 11)

––48. ""looking for a town called rain hat"" (part of line 5)

––49. "looking out the window at the snow" (part of line 1o, all of 16, 18, parts of 38, 41, 43)

––5o. "measure friendship by the time it takes to grow" (part of line 1)

––51. "mid-november the nights get colder" (parts of lines 25, 27, 31)

––52. "mid-summer solstice over the heel stone" (parts of lines 29, 37, 41)

––53. "moving down to where the farmhouse stood" (parts of lines 2, 6, 12)

––54. "my hand" (part of line 3)

––55. "my lady's a gentle thing" (part of line 6)

––56. "noise" (part of line 13)

––57. "no other story' (part of line 5)

––58. "now that you are dead" (part of line 3)

––59. "now the wind blows the clouds away" (parts of lines 9, 16)

––6o. "Once upon a time, so the story gos, Saint Reat" (part of line 2)

––61. "opened & told them" (part of line 8)

––62. "real pleasure" (part of line 1o)

––63. "saint iff" (line 2)

––64. "saint orm died finally" (part of line 3)

––65. "saint orm you were a stranger" (line 18)

––66. "Saint Reat is encountered more often than any other" (parts of lines 2-3)

––67. "she is a ghost who walks among my feelings" (parts of lines 7, 8)

––68. "so it is that you traverse a continent" (parts of lines 1, 18, all of 21, part of 28)

––69. "so much lost" (line 13)

––7o. "stand in the wind" (part of line 3)

––71. "stood in the place the north wind blew" (part of line 2)

––72. "surely when they fell" (line 2, part of 11)

––73. "tents cast on the sand" (line 4, parts of 13, 15)

––74. "the city gleams in afternoon suns. the aluminum walls" (part of line 13)

––75. "the day the two kids died" (part of loine 5)

––76. "the girl approached me when the reading ended" (parts of lines 3, 9, 1o, 13)

––77. "the mouth" (part of line 14)

––78. "The romance between Saint Reat & Saint Agnes" (parts of lines 3-4)

––79. "these other saints" (line 3)

––8o. "the white flows" (part of line 3, all of 1o)

––81. "the window reverses itself" (parts of lines 17, 3o, all of 29, 31)

––82. "third letter from suzette this month" (part of line 8)

––83. "this is a love poem" (part of line 2)

––84. "this is a strange country" (part of line 6)

––85. "this is the line between reality" (line 7)

––86. "this morning talking with grant rob gestures at the snow" (parts of lines 1o (misquoted), 16, 2o)

––87. "this morning there are no clouds anywhere" (parts of lines 3, 14, 21)

––88. "this time the sky screams BLUE" (part of line 4)

––89. "thus that it is" (lines 1, part of 3)

––9o. "tiny song" (part of line 2)

––91. "took him within the spine's motion" (part of line 9)

––92. "two nights spent watching the constellations swing around polaris" (part of line 25)

––93. "walk out the door this moment" (part of line 11)

––94. "wanting to describe the thing accurately" (2 parts of line 2)

––95. "we buried terry beyond the orchard" (line 5)

––96. "what happened" (part of loine 6)

––97. "what have i constructed" (part of line 1o, all of 15, part of 16)

––98. "what trapped bodies did you find there" (line 8, parts of 9, 11, 25)

––99. "When saint reat took the trail from cloud-town to earth he was" (part of line 3)

––1oo. "when the silence comes" (lines 2, 9)

––1o1. "who is it in this other room i've found?" (parts of lines 1, 2)

––1o2. "you say goodbye or you say hello. you say both" (part of line 8)

––1o3. "you told me not to mention it & dave did" (parts of lines 1, 4)

––1o4. "& the south & the west & the eastern winds" (line 7))

xiii) an excerpt from saint ede, by Ross Priddle (p.3o, poem in 2 parts referencing Nichol:

--1. "penny data, blank cartridge,"

--2. "x, flumadiddle, commerce")

xiv) an excerpt from 11 of the (Many) Things I've Learned From the Work of bpNichol, by Dan Waber (prose in 4 numbered parts:

--1. "There are (at least) two kinds of "self-publishing". The"

--3. "In studying the creative output of someone else, there's a"

--5. "'Pataphysics and/or ''Pataphysics were lost on me. I" (quotes Nichol from Talking About the Sacred in Writing)

--11. "A little obsession goes a long way, and there's just no (with an unidentified quote (by Nichol?))

xv) "I would like to thank Moving Images Distribution for their", by Laurie Fuhr (prose)

xvi) NoTES, by [Derek Beaulieu?] (prose references Nichol)

 

Done