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Wershler, Darren, 1966-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1966

Nationality

Canadian

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Anxiety of Influence / Lopes, Damian; Werschler-Henry D., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28620-29913
Scope and Contents

This piece was produced for a review of Darren Werschler-Henry's "Nicholodeon," a book also held by the Sackner Archive. Twenty seven signed and numbered copies were printed for the deluxe edition of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

apostrophe / Kennedy, Bill ; Wershler-Henry, Darren., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62693-48835
Scope and Contents

This work was generated by using a search engine on the internet that began with the phrase "you are" and found sentences on succeeding web sites starting with this phrase. These were collected to form an internet found poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Capilano Review, The: bill bissett. No.23/Fall / Reid J ; McFadden D ; Nelson S ; Musgrave S ; bissett b ; Karasick A ; Copithorne J ; Ford K ; Lane P ; Gadd M ; Werschler-Henry D., 1997

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Identifier: CC-62545-47705
Scope and Contents

This issue consists of several short pieces by several writers and poets about bill bissett featuring personal reminiscences about adventures with him. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Cenotaph for David UU / Wershler-Henry, Darren; UU D., 1994

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Identifier: CC-37593-39450
Scope and Contents

The poem reads "Vac m." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Concrete Poetry from the Collection of Peter Day / Day, Peter ; Basmajian S ; Beining G ; Werschler-Henry D ; bissett b ; Blaine J ; Bory JF ; DeCampos A ; Chopin H ; Cobbing B ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Gomringer E ; Williams E., 1995

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Identifier: CC-16162-16505
Scope and Contents

A posthumous catalog of Day's personal collection. Cover was designed by Darren Wershler-Henry and introductory essay was written by Michael Holmes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Fingermail: Errata. No.16/Mar / Darren Weshler-Henry., 1995

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Identifier: CC-34409-36106
Scope and Contents

Another copy has been taken from the Archive for O!!Zone 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Ian Hamilton Finlay in a Bottle / Darren Wershler-Henry., 1995

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Identifier: CC-00623-637
Scope and Contents

The poem by Ian Hamilton Finlay, printed on a small paper fragment, reads "warship worship." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

nicholodeon: a book of lowerglphs / Wershler-Henry, Darren; Nichol bp; UU D., 1994

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Identifier: CC-00634-648
Scope and Contents

This is an unpublished manuscript of poems adapted from the works and styles of bp Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Nicholodeon: A Book of Lowerglyphs, 1997

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Identifier: CC-28787-30097
Scope and Contents

The content of this book is modeled after the work of bp Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Nicholodeon: A Book of Lowerglyphs, 1997

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Identifier: CC-28788-30098
Scope and Contents

The content of this book is modeled after the work of bp Nichol. This deluxe edition has numerous inserts not found in the trade edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

nine leaves from nicholodeon; a book of lowerglyphs / Wershler-Henry, Darren; Nichol bp; Apollinaire G., 1994

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Identifier: CC-37592-39449
Scope and Contents

Darrin S. Wershler-Henry aka manitoba alphabet cult. The pieces in this suite are reprintings of bp Nichol on the commemoration of dedication of bp nichol lane at the toronto small press book fair in 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Open Letter: Millennial 'Pataphysics. No.7/Win / Christian Bok, Darren Weshler-Henry, editors ; McCaffery S ; lopes d ; deCharmoy C ; Jarry A ; Werschler-Henry D ; Bok C ; Ronell A ; Jirgens K ; Borges J ; Kristeva J ; Learn B., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27657-28740
Scope and Contents This issue deals with Pataphysica as expoused by Jarry and current interpretations by Canadian writers. The introductory essay by the Editors, Christian Bok and Darren Werschler-Henry, indicates that " 'Pataphysics (a neologism fraught with polysemy) makes its debut at the turn of the century when Ubu, the nihilist scaramouche, describes himself as a "Professor of 'pataphysics, a branch of science which we have invented and for which a crying need is generally experienced." Jarry precedes the orthography of the French word 'pataphysique with an apostrophe in order to avoid a "simple pun", but ironically enough, such a diacritical mark only signals, as present by proxy, what is absent by edict, so that the word invokes apostrophically the homophonic phrases that it revokes catastrophically. Ubu, for example is a slapstick comedian (pataud physique ) of unhealthy obesity (pateax physique), whose bodily language (patois physique) foments an astounded physics (epatee physique) that is...
Dates: 1997

The Iron Whim; A Fragmented History of Typewriting / Wershler-Henry, Darren ; Ballard J ; Burroughs WS ; cummings ee ; Gysin B ; Kafka F ; McCaffery S ; Kerouac J ; Ronell A ; Ruscha E ; Smart C ; Vollmann W ; Williams M ; McLuhan M ; Olson C ; Sackner MA., 2005

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Identifier: CC-54579-990025
Scope and Contents This book is a first edition, first printing.The author provides a history of the typewriter as a machine. There is also a section on "cut-ups" by Burroughs and Gyson.Review in The Atlantic, April 2007: "Witty and idiosyncratic, this history of typewriting says more than one might think possible about the subject. . . ." Book Description Amazon.com: "The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it is primarily about the role played by this marvel in the writer's life. Darren Wershler-Henry populates his book with figures as disparate as Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, Alger Hiss, William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Northrop Frye, David Cronenberg, and David Letterman; the soundtrack ranges from the industrial clatter of a...
Dates: 2005

The Iron Whim; A Fragmented History of Typewriting / Wershler-Henry, Darren ; Ballard J ; Burroughs WS ; cummings ee ; Gysin B ; Kafka F ; McCaffery S ; Kerouac J ; Ronell A ; Ruscha E ; Smart C ; Vollmann W ; Williams M ; McLuhan M ; Olson C ; Sackner MA., 2007

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Identifier: CC-56139-9999582
Scope and Contents This book is a first edition, first printing.The author provides a history of the typewriter as a machine. There is also a section on "cut-ups" by Burroughs and Gyson.Review in The Atlantic, April 2007: "Witty and idiosyncratic, this history of typewriting says more than one might think possible about the subject. . . ." Book Description Amazon.com: "The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it is primarily about the role played by this marvel in the writer's life. Darren Wershler-Henry populates his book with figures as disparate as Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, Alger Hiss, William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Northrop Frye, David Cronenberg, and David Letterman; the soundtrack ranges from the industrial clatter of a...
Dates: 2007

The Tapeworm Foundry / Weschler-Henry, Darren., 2002

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Identifier: CC-58819-10002041
Scope and Contents

Subtitled andor the dangerous prevalence of imagination, this novel is devoid of punctuation marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002