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bpNichol, 1944-1988

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1944 September 30 - 1988 September 25

Parallel Names

  • Nichol, BP

Nationality

Candian

Found in 327 Collections and/or Records:

Reading in Four Dimensions: The Poetics of the Contemporary Experimental Book / Schwartzburg, Mary Alden ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Phillips T ; Barron S ; Spector B ; McCaffery S ; Gins M ; Hejinian L ; Nichol bp ; Hubert RR ; Moeglin-Delcroix A ; Stein G ; Burroughs WS ; Howe S ; Traister D ; Smith K ; Sterne L ; Drucker J ; Kostelanetz R ; Phillpot C ; Broodthaers M ; Vostell W ; McLuhan M ; Finlay IH ; Acconci V ; Cutts S ; Finlay IH., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-43609-45687
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2004

Selected Organs: Parts of an Autobiography / Nichol, bp ; Kroetsch R., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-50285-71352
Scope and Contents

Selected Organs is a part of a larger autobiography entitled Organ Music. The basic idea of these prose pieces was to write an autobiography from a different direction concentrating on the parts of the body. All stories in this autobiography are true and told in a specific style borrowed from the oral story-telling methods of Nichol's grandmother. Nichol also drew the body part for each section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-22196-22618
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1980

Selected Poems: Particular Accidents, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-22166-22588
Scope and Contents

Edited and with an introductory essay by Robin Blaser. Includes a poem portrait, "bp Nichol." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Sense(d)/Visuals (1968-86) / Basmajian, Shaunt; Nichol bp; Gomringer E., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-22712-23147
Scope and Contents

All these works are catalogued individually. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Sensory Deprivation / Dream Poetics / Lopes, Damian ; UU D ; Nichol bp ; Bradley Df., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-37034-38874
Scope and Contents

Most of the pages in this book depict a visual or concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Sharp Facts: Some Selections from Translating Translating Apollinaire 26 / Nichol, bp., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-05561-5668
Scope and Contents

Nichol demonstrates "copying machine disintegrative tendencies" by repeatedly putting the same text through four different photocopying machines. The text breaks down until it gradually disappears, so that "the machine is the message." The process is the same as that employed by Emmett Williams in a series of poems that are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Singing Hands Series: Cold Mountain. No.3 / bp Nichol., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-36850-38683
Scope and Contents

According to Nelson Ball, 200 copies were printed but 120 copies were accidently destroyed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Singing Hands Series: Scraptures: Second Sequence. No.1 / bp Nichol ; bissett b., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-36855-38688
Scope and Contents

This is Nichol's second book in which he prints wordplay mainly on the word "beware." The cover was designed by bill bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965