Gustave Morin

Broschiertes Buch

Clean Sails

Beschreibung

Poetry. Art. 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. "This is one hell of a ride you won't want to miss."--Derek Pell

Autor

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....

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Star Books
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781554201082
• ISBN-10: 155420108X
• Artikelnr.: 44444889