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Printed as a Christmas gift, this work is from "Comics" by bp Nichol, editied by Carl Peters and forthcoming from Talonbooks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The recto reproduces a conventional poem, "Winter: 35t Year" by bp Nichol from "An H in the Heart. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The recto reproduces a visual poem, "Scraptures: Last Sequence" by bp Nichol from "Gifts; the martyrology book(s) 7." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This Christmas card has a comic strip by bp Nichol of Lonely Fred Five on its cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Back cover blurb:"Pataphysics, the pseudoscience imagined by Alfred Jarry, has so far, because of its academic frivolity and hermetic perversity, attracted very little scholarly or critical inquiry, and yet it has inspired a century of experimentation. Tracing the place of 'pataphysics in the tangled history of the relationship between science and poetry, Christian Bok demonstrates that 'pataphysics is fundamental to the nature of the postmodern. Bok considers the work of Jarry, 'pataphysician, both by itself and as it influenced work by later generations. Discussing 'pataphysics in general and Jarry's work in particular as a ludic counterpart of Nietzschean philosophy, Bok examines the relationship of rule and chance, of science and poetry, of the rational and the surrational. His work draws on a wide range of reading in poetry and theory to establish a firm historical ground for understanding the influence of 'pataphysics, making a variety of seemingly difficult or obscure...

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Patria is "a cycle of twelve related music dramas created and performed over the last thirty years. Each play in the cycle has a common theme - the search of two lovers for one another through the many labyrinths of life on Earth... This new, definitive edition of Patria contains all twelve parts of the cycle, plus photos, pages from the scores (complex visual artworks in their own right), commentary on the performance of the pieces and Schafer's personal essays on aestheticism. In these remarkable works, the arts court one another: theatre meets ritual, mythology fuses with art, and the line between performer and audience blurs." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a digression that took place from curry's reading of bp Nichol's the martyrology conducted with Jennifer Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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bp Nichol was the proprietor of Seripress. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Two copies have an isbn number on the front cover but one copy does not. The back cover of one copy with the isbn number has a different image than the other copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a posthumous documentary film of bp Nichol's life and work including several interviews of his poet friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a posthumous documentary film of bp Nichol's life and work including several interviews of his poet friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Steve McCaffery edited and wrote the introductory essay for this book that consists of the collected research reports of the Toronto Research Group (TRG) 1973-1992. There is a discussion of the experimental fiction of Steve Katz, Raymond Federman, Madeline Gins, Scott Symons, and B.S. Johnson on pages 79-88. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Schwartzburg provides a very intelligent analysis of Tom Phillips' "A Humument" in Chapter 3. She mentions the following. Stanford's single copy of 'A Human Document' "has lain motionless on the shelves for so long that it has no circulation history prior to three times it was checked out since 1997, when the latest edition of 'A Humument" was taught in a graduate seminar. Phillips' very recovery of Mallock's text demonstrates its loss, for it is only being read now as an extension of 'A Humument.. It is entirely dependent on 'A Humument' - not prior to it." Three major sections of Schwartburg's book deal with works held by the Sackner Archive, Tom Phillips' "A Humument," Susan Barron's unique book, "Twisting Silence," and Ian Hamilton Finlay's "Two Poems." A great deal of research for this thesis was done by Schwartzberg in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.