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This book is profusely illustrated with line drawings and written texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, the poem "Quebec Bombers" as Jack David describes it, "begins with the phrase "dirty concrete poet' repeated twice, then changes to "the concrete is dirty dirty,' "sum like it clean what dew they ooo.' . . . the comparison presents the clean ordered life of a capitalist system and the dirty chaotic life of the lower classes." [Lori Emerson internet 2011]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There were 1450 copies of this book bound in soft covers and 50 copies bound in hard covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There were 1450 copies of this book bound in soft covers and 50 copies bound in hard covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The first edition of this work (also held by the Sackner Archive) was published as Gronk Vol.8, No.8 in 1972. This present edition has been edited with notes and comments by Derek Beauleau and Gregory Betts.Amazon.com: The publication of bill bissett's RUSH: WHAT FUCKAN THEORY; A STUDY UV LANGUAGE in 1972 firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out of print for 40 years"”and reissued here complete with an interview with bissett about the book's creation and a critical afterword by derek beaulieu and Gregory Betts"”RUSH embodies a collagist, multi-conscious approach to art that recognizes no division between the work and the world, the author and his sexuality, his breath, his influences; the theory and the practice. Arguing that "a new line has started," RUSH captures the urgency of a new model of production that resists the closure and mastery of any one mind. It is an elegant rejection of aesthetic ego and all presumptions of authority. RUSH: WHAT FUCKAN THEORY;...

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bissett made a line drawing on the title page for the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cover painting by bissett. Len Early wrote the introduction to this selection of bissett's poems from 1962-1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stardust refers to photographs. Poems relate to movie stars reproduced in book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This first edition differs from the later, revised edition in its covers, fold-outs, and the presence of an offset page. There are more rubberstamped texts and less typewriter poetry in the first edition than the revised edition. The revised edition also has pages printed in red ink whereas the first edition does not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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From the rear cover review by the National Post: "The question this latest fusion of song, sound, performance and visual poetry from bill bissett is for a human condition ourside the perpetual terror of the twenty-first century..." Has marginalia in graphite by previous owner on pages 5, 8, 26, 27, 125 and 142. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.