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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Curvd H&Z: Novel. No.159/Nov / bp Nichol., 1982

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Identifier: CC-18269-18641
Scope and Contents

Also designated Toybox #2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Ground Works: Avant-Garde for Thee , 2002

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Identifier: CC-41495-43482
Scope and Contents

This book is a compendium of Canadian avant garde writing from 1965 to 1985. Margaret Atwood, who contributed an over-view essay of the work produced during those years, collaborated with Bok to organize the selections of experimental fiction by the authors. John Riddell contributed "Pope Leo: El Lope" from Criss-Cross. It is a lipogram using only the letters e, o, l and p. The contribution by bp Nichol is from "Still... a novel that depicts in minute detail the scenography for a potential, but postponed , story... his words provide a kind of textual terrain across which the eye pans like a camera." Steve McCaffery's "Panopticon" is an enigmatic whodunnit...The panopticon symbolizes the maze of words through which the reader must wander, playing the role of invisible spectator." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Housepress Openpalm: Willed THinks. No.5 / ross priddle ; Nichol bp., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36505-38304
Scope and Contents

Priddle's calligraphically reproduced essay deals with bp Nichol's infatuation with the letter "H" as well as environmental issues in a dada-like presentation. Priddle also mentions progressive scleroderma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Story So Far, The. No.4 / Steve McCaffery, bp Nichol, editors ; Andrews B ; Barreto-Rivera R ; Bowering G ; Broudy H ; Cohen M ; Dutton P ; Garnet E ; Gilbert G ; Griffiths B ; McCaffery S ; Nichol bp ; Riddell J ; Vaughn-James M ; Young D ; Riddell J., 1976

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Identifier: CC-02462-2502
Scope and Contents

Includes long diaristic, experimental visual/verbal, prose/poetry work by Hart Broudy. The title of this issue is actually "The Story So Four." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Two Novels: Andy / For Jesus Lunatick / Nichol, bp., 1969

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Identifier: CC-31521-33014
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The dust jacket is chipped and torn in several places. However the black cloth cover and the text and images are in fine condition. The prose and poems are printed in back to back reversed sections for each of the two novels. The novel "For Jesus Lunatick" is printed without punctuations in a highly experimental layout including several numbered blank pages. The latter are for numbered illustrations placed in the center section that the reader is requested to cut and paste to the respective page. "Andy "is punctuated and layed out experimentally with some pages concrete poetic in appearance. It, too, has several pages that are numbered and blank with exception of a single number placed at different locations to receive the illustrations from the cutttings in the center section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Two Novels: Andy / For Jesus Lunatick Second Edition / Nichol, bp., 1971

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Identifier: CC-31563-33058
Scope and Contents

In contrast to the first edition in which the prose and poems were printed in back to back reversed sections for each of the two novels, the printing in this second edition is sequential. The illustrations are printed in their designated positions for "Andy" but the pages are left blank for the novel "For Jesus Lunatick. The book design is not nearly as successful as the first edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971