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curry describes his adventures on riding a train as a hobo in this story. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Introduction was written by jw curry; the cover and book design were done by Mike Miskowski. This unsigned copy has yellow colored letters of the title on the cover whereas the signed copy has grey colored letters. This is the third printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Introduction was written by jw curry; the cover and book design were done by Mike Miskowski. This unsigned copy has yellow colored letters of the title on the cover whereas the signed copy has grey colored letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The introduction (interdeduction) was written by jw curry; the cover and book design were done by Mike Miskowski. This signed copy has grey colored letters of the title on the cover whereas the unsigned copy has yellow colored letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a masterpiece of rubberstamp printing. Its theme is a rendition in the criminal's version of his apprehension by the Justice System in Toronto as interpreted by curry in a concrete/visual poetic style. The design is a masterpiece of the rubberstamping genre.The texts provide an improvised "discontinuous transcription" of statements made by an out-of-control Canadian felon after his arrest by the Toronto Metro Police August 18, 1988, as recorded by a reporter from the sensationalist SUN newspaper. Joe Poland's statements after his arrest provide some bizarre entertainment: a cross between "found poetry" and a "cutup". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a masterpiece of rubberstamp printing. Its theme is a rendition in the criminal's version of his apprehension by the Justice System in Toronto as interpreted by curry in a concrete/visual poetic style. The design is a masterpiece of the rubberstamping genre.The texts provide an improvised "discontinuous transcription" of statements made by an out-of-control Canadian felon after his arrest by the Toronto Metro Police August 18, 1988, as recorded by a reporter from the sensationalist SUN newspaper. Joe Poland's statements after his arrest provide some bizarre entertainment: a cross between "found poetry" and a "cutup". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated 12th draft. The poems, one to a page, are printed in school child-like letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a eulogy written upon curry's mother's death and given to his father; Mr. Curry died shortly thereafter and this is his copy. The other copy is in the possession of jw curry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains an essay "Hey, Great Caboose!" which describes a new generation of train hoppers, including john curry and Lance LaRocque, who continue the tradition started in the '30s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated bitlet #2, series 2. The abstract cover designed was done by jw curry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, curry used the name John W. Curry. His spelling of the English language phonetically is similar to that of bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This scrapbook documents an attempt to hitch a freight train from Toronto to Vancouver in order to relive an adventure of 1976-8. The text which was printed entirely with rubberstamping is a tour de force in this media. A series of debacles led the adventurers to a neighborhood just outside Toronto rather than their goal. The collaged elements of the book are photocopied colored handwritten notes and color photographs of the journey. An appendix is provided as a guide to others for such trips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Qaani Lore who drew the image on the cover is curry's daughter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated 2 bit Poetry No.18. The cover collage incorporates fragmented text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated 2 bit Poetry No.18. The cover collage incorporates fragmented text. The Sackner Archive owns two copies and the covers show slight differences. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication was done at the 2nd Toronto Small Press Book Fair. Writers were invited to submit one page of poetry or prose to the editors four days before the Fair. Nancy Kilpatrick contributed a poem shaped as a side view of a hamburger on a bun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Book Thug Internet: Poetry, comic book art, pop culture, concrete poetry, the lyric, the myth of the cowboy, even the myth of the poet-hero: these are just some of the avenues explored by bpNichol in The Captain Poetry Poems. In this short portrait of the poet as a young man, our hero is a dilemma: part fabrication and part confession, Cap is a character created by these poems that extends their author into realms of possible identities. Who is Captain Poetry? Is he a poet? Is he a hero? Is he the bearer of heretofore important and unknown knowledge? Written at a time when questions about what poetry might be; when questions about what the figure of the poet might be, The Captain Poetry Poems showed Nichol grappling with some of the cliches inherent to both his craft and his identity. Playful, even at times silly, but never without the human intelligence Nichol is best known for, these poems may not be the "best" work in Nichol's oeuvre, but their experiments reveal important...