On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and performer. His many books and chapbooks will soon include: The Porcupinity of the Stars (Coach House), How it Begins: A Short History of Bite (No Press), The Obvious Flap (with Gregory Betts; BookThug) and Franzlations (with Hugh Thomas and Craig Conley; New Star). His books already include anus porcupine eyebrow (Supernova Tadpole/Paper Kite) and frogments from the frag pool (with derek beaulieu; Mercury) and the 2010 bpNichol chapbook award co-winner, Inverting the Deer (serif of nottingham). He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and can be found at serifofnottingham.blogspot.com. This sentence makes frequent stops. Gary says: "Photoglyphic collages of free-range semi-colons, vowels, imaginary letters, and an m or two. Language in its natural environment: a Magritte-like graphosphere of shifting sign and surface. A languagescape The alphabet as stigmata on the open hands of the world." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.