Synopsis
"This is one hell of a ride you won't want to miss."--Derek Pell
The 160 pages of Clean Sails were wrested from dozens of typewriters, some of them hand-modified, through countless thousands of hours of typing over the past half-decade, and informed by Gustave Morin's quarter-century of investigation into the (im)possibilities of concrete poetry.
Mr. Morin insists Clean Sails is a volume of poetry; others call it an example of "painting through a typewriter." What is clear is that there has never before been a book like it.
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About the Author
Part werewolf, part ferris wheel, Canadian writer, artist and performer gustave morin was born of French-Canadian and German stock, in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1972; but in 1980 his bewildered and hapless parents fled to Windsor, the Canadian suburb of Detroit, to see to it that he narrowly escape an almost predetermined life of crime. At or around the age of 13 he realized, with growing horror, that it was necessary to "do something" with their life. Initially he thought to become a spy, then, cartoonist, and from there decided to write novels of horror. In his maturity, he is actually an amalgam of all three, a fact little-known. Since his early teens he has funneled and focused his volatile energies and latent criminal mind into a host of artful projects including the writing, publishing, exhibition and performance of many varied and various works of cultural esoterica. Although most known as a major contemporary voice in the literary sub-idiom of concrete poetry, that is not the only thing that he does as you may or may not ever come to know....
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Clean Sails
Seller: Laurel Reed Books, Stratford, ON, Canada
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. Front cover and endpapers with light vertical crease, else fine. A rare delight, typewriter poems. (Concrete, visual poetry, viz po). Promotional book mark from press laid in, fine. Seller Inventory # 011624