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This is the second edition. The first edition was also published in 1973. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first edition. -- 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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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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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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The typing consists of typed o = X * . and ()'s resembling a sky with clouds. This poem is printed in bissett's book, "scars on th seehors." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each copy of this book includes a unique pastel drawing by bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes a unique pastel drawing by bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a major compendium of bissett's diverse styles in poetry and art and is the author's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The front and rear covers were composed by bill bissett. The book was designed Derek Beaulieu. -- 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...

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Introduction by G. Bowering notes that the four volumes of this publication cover the period from the early 1960's to 1983. Volume includes selection of each poet's work, a brief biography, bibliography and photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue features typewriter and calligraphic concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.