AMERICAN STANDARD CANADA DRY
by Stephen Cain.
Toronto, Coach House Books, [december?] 2oo5. ISBN 1-55245-152-6.
5-11/16 x 8, 6o sheets ivory zephyr antique laid perfectbound into glossy PVC white card wrappers, all except inside covers & 12 pp printed black offset with 3-colour process additions to covers.
cover by Bill Kennedy.
rear cover blurbs by Christian Bok, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jay Millar.
includes:
i) DEFENDER (p.36; poem, 9 lines, line 3 a play off bpNichol's "in the midst of life we are in death")
ii) GAS-FOOD-LODGING (pp.39-49; with epigraph by Nichol, lines 1-5 of "in Choate Road" (ie part I:1); Nichol also cited in the last line of part I:3, "Wondertwin transformation. I think the monkey's name was")
iii) WINDOWWAVERING (p.57; concrete poem derived from Nichol's Early Morning: June 23)
iv) THE 1837-38 REBELLIONS (p.98; references Nichol)
v) BORDERBLUR (p.114; with quote by Nichol from some afterwords (to the cosmic chef))
AMERICAN STANDARD CANADA DRY
by Stephen Cain.
Toronto, Coach House Books, [december?] 2oo5. ISBN 1-55245-152-6.
5-11/16 x 8, 6o sheets ivory zephyr antique laid perfectbound into glossy PVC white card wrappers, all except inside covers & 12 pp printed black offset with 3-colour process additions to covers.
cover by Bill Kennedy.
rear cover blurbs by Christian Bok, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jay Millar.
includes:
i) DEFENDER (p.36; poem, 9 lines, line 3 a play off bpNichol's "in the midst of life we are in death")
ii) GAS-FOOD-LODGING (pp.39-49; with epigraph by Nichol, lines 1-5 of "in Choate Road" (ie part I:1); Nichol also cited in the last line of part I:3, "Wondertwin transformation. I think the monkey's name was")
iii) WINDOWWAVERING (p.57; concrete poem derived from Nichol's Early Morning: June 23)
iv) THE 1837-38 REBELLIONS (p.98; references Nichol)
v) BORDERBLUR (p.114; with quote by Nichol from some afterwords (to the cosmic chef))