fluttertongue 3

disarray.

 

by Steven Ross Smith.

 

Winnipeg, Turnsone Press, 2oo5. ISBN o-888o1-3o7-8. 2nd state with Saskatchewan Book Award sticker obstructing part of the cover.

 

5-7/16 x 8-1/2, 56 sheets white bond perfectbound in matte PVC white card wrappers, all except inside covers & 3 pp (ii, viii, 2) printed black offset withy 3-colouyr process addition to covers.

 

cover by "Doowah Design"

 

includes:

i) fluttertongue 3 (prose in 2 parts; part 2, disarray, is in 112 numbered parts, of which 7o are present & include references to bpNichol in parts

––1. for Fred Wah (p.4)

––5. "Windstorm. Screen rips apart. Useless language" (p.6; with reference to bp & Ellie Nichol's th'read)

––15. "for bp" (pp.9-1o)

––27. for R.K. (pp.16-17; with reference to Nichol's Inchoate Road)

––42. "last night. The poetry was okay but there was" (p.28; dedicated "for bp")

––58. "K, I" (dedicated "for Mauricio Kagel, & You too Nicky" (the latter a title by Nichol but it may also refer to Nicky Drumbolis))

––65. Diptych (pp.46-48; in 2 parts "For bpNichol":

––––a. "I unstring words in furrows, go unretentive in" (with quotes by Nichol from

––––––1. "chaos rumoured" (lines 15-16)

––––––2. day one

––––––3. Scraptures: 17th Sequence (line 15))

––67b. "Ear is a tiny candle, open for grand design," (pp.47-48; passing reference to Nichol))

––73. Still Life (pp.53-54; passing reference to Nichol))

ii) Notes on sources, quotations and allusions (pp.97-1o4; prose referencing all the above & with a quote by Nichol from Hour 24, lines 75-78)

 

 

 

Done