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The poems deals with anti-watching of television. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages consist of reviews of books and poems by various authors that have been done by curry in visual/verbal imagery. Each review is produced on a single page. The books from this manuscript were published by Jumbo Plums and Runaway Spoon Press in 1991. A few of the reviews have been redone, e.g, Furnival, Bulowski and Walmsley, since their original manuscripts are already held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages consist of reviews of books and poems by various authors that have been done by curry in visual/verbal imagery. Each review is produced on a single page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These black and white prints are based on line drawing done in bissett's typical style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In a reprinted mimeographed letter from levy to neal emerson, editor of Love, levy writes: "...- just sent you 2lbs of poetry mags etc & wish you luck - i cant take it here much longer & hope ill be leaving the city in one way or another very soon - i just wan to let you know that when you get busted for trying to communicate, when you get busted for trying to love... some catholic is going to get a nice paying promotion into the city hierarchy - so your blood wasnt a complete waste - yrs in the slow death d.a. levy.Some of these poems were published previously, e.g., red lady, the madiason envelope, etc.According to a letter from Alan Horvath, the publisher of this book, most copies including the Sackner copy were printed with a blue flip cover with a red image. A rarer copy had a brown cover with a black image. -- 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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Auction catalogue. The Sackners purchased two letters by bill bissett at this auction., -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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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This poem was reproduced in Dust No.16. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of essays of critical texts. In an essay about the work of bill bissett, Beaulieu extols bissett's "what fuckan theory" as an early conceptual text but excoriates him for the repetive nature of his work and performances as the years progressed. -- 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.