Essays

by Robert Kroetsch; edited by Frank Davey & bpNichol.

 

Toronto, Open Letter, spring 1983. issued as Open Letter ser.5 nr.4.

 

5-3/4 x 8-11/16, 64 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid perfectbound into green mayfair card wrappers, all except inside covers & p.2 printed offset, black interiors in navy covers.

 

cover photograph (& all others) unacknowledged.

with contributions by Frank Davey, Eli Mandel, Fred Wah, Phyllis Webb.

 

includes:

i) Beyond Nationalism: A Prologue (pp.83-89; prose with passing reference to bpNichol's the martyrology)

ii) For Play and Entrance: The Contemporary Canadian Long Poem (pp.91-11o; in 24 parts & 2 addenda with an epigraph by Nichol, lines 1-12 of the martyrology book 4, & references in parts

–5. "The essential difference between delay and postponement." (pp.93-94; with quotes by Nichol from

––a. "as there are words i haven't written" (lines 1-5, 15-16)

––b. "ah reason there is only feeling" (lines 3-9))

–6. "A method, then, and then, and then, of composition; against the 'and then' of" (pp.94-95; with reference to Nichol in quotes by Michael Ondaatje & Sam Solecki from An Interview with Michael Ondaatje)

–9. "You, poet, giving birth to yourself. The contemporary Canadian long poem as" (pp.97-98; with references to Nichol & the martyrology)

–13. "grandpa (and all those fucking tombstones)" (pp.99-1oo; with quote by Nichol, line 12 from "as there are words i haven't written")

–24. "delay / and after" (pp.1o6-1o7; with reference to Nichol)

--25. Bibliography (pp.1o8-1o9; includes Nichol's the martyrology books 1-4))

 

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