A MODERN AIR

TWENY 20 back lane notes on small press in canada with an emphasis on independence & self-production.

 

by Nicky Drumbolis.

 

Toronto, Letters Bookshop, [13] december 1991. 1oo copies numbered in red ink holograph at colophon rear, issued as [List 91].

ISBN o-921688-o2-4.

 

5-7/16 x 8-7/16, 72 sheets black-specked grey Domtar Recycled perfectbound with plain canary xerographic bond endleaves into plain dark-filamented grey byronic brocade card covers in 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 purple bond dustjacket with 2-13/16" flaps glued down to inside covers, all except dustjacket verso & 3 pp (2, 64, 142) printed black potocopy, with 5-1/16 x 8-5/16 white mimeo bond broadsheet printed black mimeo laid in rear (Errataslip).

 

other contributors:

D.M.Owen, Bill Stencil, Betty Sutherland.

 

includes:

i) "what's a nice book like you doing in a list like this?" A Coach House Sampler Demonstrating the Difficulty of Collecting the most Significant Small Press in Canadian History, an Open Letter to Librarians & Booksellers (bibliographical essay in 154 numbered parts with references to bpNichol in parts (titles by Nichol except as indicated):

–5. MAN IN A WINDOW (title by Wayne Clifford)

–12. a little pome for yur fingertips

–15. IS. two (magazine edited by Victor Coleman)

–16. JOURNEYING & the returns (in 5 parts:

––a. JOURNEYING & the returns

––b. BORDERS

––c. Lettres Home (in 15 parts:

–––1. COLD MOUNTAIN

–––2. precarious

–––3. towards a poetry of shy sounds

–––4. orgyorgy orgyorgy orgyorgy orgyorgy

–––5. OWL

–––6. answer

–––7. turnips are spurtin

–––8. Drrrrrrrrrrrummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm

–––9. to a Loved One (with quote of first & last lines)

–––1o. bp

–––11. milk

–––12. pane rain pane (quoted in full, not in lineation)

–––13. Mind trap

–––14. O BENT SEVER ALL

–––15. "(colophon card)"

––d. WILD THING for THE TROGGS

––e. bp)

–17. last poem with you in mind

–18. SCRAPTURES tenth sequence

–19. SYNAPSIS a prelude (anthology edited by David Aylward & bpNichol)

–27. june pome (for barrie (title by David W.Harris)

–39. An Introduction to Communications Therapy

–42. CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN SMALL PRESSES

–6o. FOR JESUS LUNATICK ANDY

–98. the maRtyROLOGy BOOk I the maRtyROLOGy BOOk II

–139. FAMILIAR

–141. THE TEACHING OF ARESS KINKEN

–147. MIDDLE INITIAL SEQUEL

–149. zygal A Book of Mysteries and Translations

–152. PRAYER)

ii) CONTACT RETROSPECTIVE 28 january 1986 HARBOURFRONT (poster reproduction (with header by Betty Sutherland) lists Nichol among readers)

iii) realignment (prose with references to Nichol)

iv) mimeo littles in Canada 1942-1965 (lists Ganglia 2nd-last)

v) Canadian mimeo titles to 1965 (with references to Nichol)

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