Andre, Michael, illustrated by Brian Buczak It As It 8.25 x 11 issue from Unmuzzled Ox of 1984. Blown -up text to recto, Sharpe marker illos. to the verso. In 1980 Buczak produced a "Money for Food Press" edition whose covers are included as graphics in this one, e.g."in an edition of 100 copies, this is # 10 of 10". Brian died of AIDS July 4, 1987. a marker for the 70's in Good condition $25.

Andrews, Bruce Factura Sedimental displacement at the phonemic level: only perform. With a cover by Bruce Pavlow. 8.75 x 11 Xexoxial edition of 1987 in Fine condition $25.

Arp, Hans and Yves Troendle The Swallow's Testicle Intervention on the typesetting stage into 20 of Arp's poems (Troendle's translation) and 2 poems by Troendle with the participation of 6 poets, 2 typesetters and 2 refugees. daDA vinci. 1987. 8.5 x 11 matte paper covers. As New $20.

Basmajian, Sha(u)nt Boundaries Limits and Space Typewriter concrete encounters seriality. Underwich Editions publication of 1980. 7 x 7, 52 pp. brown matted covers with a poem on the front. As New $20.

Basmajian, Sha(u)nt and Brian David Jo(h)nston, editors Bfp(h)aGe bpNichol, jwcurry, Evason, Bradley and the two editors; timely and laminated. 1989. Smoke stains so only good condition $15.

Bayard, Caroline & Jack David, editors Out-Posts/Avant-Posts Special bilingual edition of the Anglo- and Franco -phone modes of advance Canadian language-play. With gernerous selections of bp Nichol, Raoul Duguay, Nicole Brossard and bill bissett. 6 x 9, 129 pp in English and 126 pp. en francais on inverted pages working each to the middle between sturdy paper cards perfectbound from PressPporcepic in 1978. In Fine condition $35.

Beining, Guy R. Unwrapping Spheres of Clouds & Skull. Collage.
The painter's brush with language. Cerlox bound, has no dj and is scarce. 9 x 11, 100 pp. including 2 colour paste-ins. Inside front cover printed with career as painter, bak inside cover printed with writerly career. 1994. Fine overall condition. $35.

Bertola, Carla,editor Busta Sorpresa 7 "Surprise Box" from 0fferta Speciale, an exquisite assemblage serial out of Turin, Italy. Henri Chopin, Fernando Aguiar and jwcurry are here but the opening piece, by Greta Scuodl is a lettriste knockout. Edition of 60 from 1990, this is #16 Even the drawstrings are tie-dyed. As New condition $200.

bisset, bill Animal Uproar Talonbooks first printing, October 1987. Bright blue front paper cover with bill's swallows reproduced in full colour on it. 6 x 9, 128 pp. with foxing on all faces, clear text though $20.

bissett, bill The Last Blewointment Anthology Volume II - Li - Zo A bit like concrete on the installment plan but notable for bpNichol's introduction where he comes as close to a rant as I ever saw him. 1986. 8.5 x 11, 77 pp. with red paper covers and bill's th gossamer bed pan on front. Some smoke inhalation, so only Good condition. $20.

Bohn, Willard, editor The Dada Market: An Anthology of Poetry 42 language artists presented alphabetically and bilingually where necessary by Southern Illinois University Press in 1993. 5.5 x 8 231 pp. with some lift to the laminated paper covers and foxing to top face. Great Raoul Hausmann, two by Man Ray. Good condition $30.

Bradley, Daniel f. GG A lettriste relationship deteriorating over 7 rectos. Masking tape over staples kinda bondage. 8.5 x 11, 10 pp. 1990 Fine $15.

Bradley, Daniel f. NfB Language splashing opacity -then plant your fucking bulbs, Nietzsche's Brolly 1991, 8.5 x 11 As New $20.

Cobbing, Bob A Peal in Air, Collected Poems Volume 3, 1968-1970 Lot of acetate work here -by its master. Like Apollinaire he's a painter too! Coffee stains on back cover, other, less identifiable all over elsewhere. 1978. 8.5 x 11, 56 pp. Good overall condition $25.

Cobblng, Bob Bill Jubobe Masterpiece of a chunky book. 6 x 6, scarlet on navy-blue cover chock full of concrete edges and ecstasies. 1976, Fine throughout $20

Cobbing, Bob Sensations of the Retina Sensational opacities bound by a blue transparency. The gronk Cobbing (No. 15). 1978. Fine. $30.

Deisler, Guillermo, editor UNI/vers(;) 30 Assembled international portfolio for visual & experimental Poetry All pieces in "Hommage a Vincente Huidobro." Cerlox-bound assemblage for easier viewing of fabulous contents, say of J. Lehmus or Giovanni Strada. This one has suffered smoke and water damage to covers, binding and first and last few pages. An assemblage 'starter-upper'. 8.5 x 8.5, Fair overall condition $60.

Deisler, Guillermo, editor UNI/vers(; ) 32 Visual and experimental Poetry
Assemblage in beautifully marbled cardboard which sadly has been reduced to fair condition by smoke. Contents of all 37 contibutors still fine though and lain in shallow container. Seal has been broken. 6.25 x 9, 1994. Good condition $150.

Deisler, Guillermo, editor UNI/vers(;) 33 Visual and experimental Poetry
Assemblage of hand-made collages composed by over 50 language poets. 6 x 8.5, 4 stickers and two stampages on plain cardboard (slim) box. 1994. Fine condition all $250.

Deisler, Guillermo, editor UNI/vers(;) 34 Assembled international portfolio for visual & experimental poetry This, the last one assembled by Guillermo Deisler himself before his death is dedicated to public ordinances and general advice, such as ACHTUNG KABEL, How to use chopsticks or How to eat a Man. This one is also cerlox-bound and suffered less smoke and water damage than #30 but there are still stains to the covers inside and out and one content-page has a tear and a smoke stain on its backside. Good condition $90.

Deisler, Guillermo & Kowalski, Jörg, editors wortBILD:Visuelle Poesie in der DDR
Anthology of 65 poets from the former East Germany. White on black printed cloth covers with diaphanous plastic wrapper. Largely typewriter concrete. The afterword, "Zeichen-Sprache" is auf Deutsch. Poets' brief bios and bibliographies follow. 6 x 8, 163 pp., 1990 in As New condition $50.

Evason, Greg Letters to Dr. Canteen (a selection) Typed, collaged and/or brushed on cover stock then stuffed in an 8-1/2 x ll flap-open envelope. 1989 from Pangen Subway Ritual. Greg's best work in black and white, especially, man with no yoyo . Envelope is of course stained but contents are stiff and fine and so rare $35.

Evason, Greg Nothing Relatively clean, minimalist Evason; drawing and collage picking up halfway through. Stencil title, blue on white paper covers, binding with staples then scored and glued over. 1991, 8.25 x 11, 62 pp.some spinal staining. Good $2O.

Fencott, Clive Non Hysteron Proteron The pataphysics of Knossoss gnosis. Yah can tell he's British -always uses Latin to talk about the Hellas. Hugh Gnu; this one's in mint condition. 5.75 x 8.25, 130 pp. 1984. Can't wait til Arthur Evans gets to Korinth. $25.

Goss, Rosalind A Crossing Place I.E. the gutter of the page. Conceptually tight with handwritten title embossed on the cloth front cover board. Reads like black chalk. 8.75 x 12 Underwich Edition of 1985. Of 150 copies printed this is number 150-J, signed 'R. Goss'. Fine condition, $50.

Grosman, Ernesto Livon the XUL Reader: An Anthology of Argentine Poetry 1980-1996 Taken from a magazine named after the vanguardist author, Xul Solar that persisted during the time of the Generals. Includes a prose poem by its namesake and concrete by Oliviero Girondo and Jorge Lepore, for example, the latter translated by Molly Weigl. 6 x 9, 135 pp. paper cover, altogether fine $35.

Heissenbuttel, Helmut TEXTS Selected and translated by Michael Hamburger for Marion Boyars London and Salem NH in 1977. Syntatctic concrete. Paper boards with no lift, flexible binding, 6.75 x 9.5, 119 pp. in overall fine condition $30.

Helmes, Scott, Richard Kostelanetz and David Cole, compilers Tenth Assembling: A Collection of Otherwise Unpublishable Manuscripts Fabulous, simply fabulous. And the zaniest "Notes on Contributors" you'll ever see. 1980. Some smoke stains to spine and front cover but it didn't inhale. 8.5 x 11, 200 pp. Good condition some great colours-shots $120.

Higgins, Dick Modular Poems Fluxus heavy-hitter, brings his own photographer too. Eugene Williams provides some stunning overexposed shots of machinery. Unpublished Editions, Barton VT, 1974. 8.75 x 11, 162 pages of what feels like hand-made 80 lb. arches paper. Photo of the poet on back paper cover. Book's been hit pretty hard but still sturdily bound and textually hardcore as hell $90.

Higgins, Dick The Journey: eight colored scenes Eight mise-en-scenes for performative reader-players. 8.5 x 11, 32 pp. in good condition $15.

Hinz, Colin, designer and producer 10.-22.-38 ASTORIA Xexoxial meets mail art meets collagen culture. Whew! what a lot of lip shots! 8.5 x 11, 66 pp. with addresses of all the mailers on a toner-challenged back page and a special envelope of 8 postcards from Mother of Ashes Press. Paper covers with glued-on painting on front, print on back. Fine punko 1988 condition $25.

Houedard, Dom Sylvester coelfrith 15 A catalogue of the poet's work made for an exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1972. Mark Vesey edited it for the coelfrith arts centre. Contains 12 concrete poems, an extensive bibliography and copious comments by Houedard on his work and even a little on his inspiration. 6.75 x 9.5, 71pp. paper boards don't lift but binding is fragile while text is fine $60.

Hryciuk, Marshall The Gathered Galloping Syntaxi Strands 1 - 60 Whereas 1 - 20 of the syntaxi strands or divertissements are in Volume 1 of the No Holds Bard series, there they are reset on a Macintosh 128. Here all typed text is photocopied from ms. and published by Runaway Spoon Press in 1992. First edition, 8.5 x 11, 70 pp. White paper cards stapled then perfectbound. Some tears to the spine, fine condition $50.

Hryciuk, Marshall No Holds Bard first volley First 20 syntaxi strands. Translations, with those from Archilochus and Charles Baudelaire featured along with original poems tangential to these also included.All reset on a Macintosh 128 in 1985. Nietzsche's Brolly's first publication as such. First edition of 120 copies -has no endpapers. 8.5 x 11, 96 pp. in mint condition $25.

Jessop, John International Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Vol 1.
Excellent glyph of where Canadian concrete was in the 70's. With imports from Buenos Aires, including Guillermo Deisler's work and a cover poem by Gerry Shikatani. Commemorates an International Conference/Performances in Toronto in 1975. Cerlox bound paper boards, 9 x 11.25, 116 pp. in altogether fine condition $35.

jwcurry Can't Afford No Kodak, Instamatik, Instamatik. 5 pages 8.5 x 11 stapled against the statement that Vlm.1 was just a rumour. Scarce. 1980. Fine condition. $30

jwcurry Can't Afford No Kodak, Instamatik, Instamatik, Volume 2 The major collection of Curry's visual poetry, 11 in full colour. Cover in Granada black stock with glued photo of two H's in a rug, in honour of bpNichol. 49 poems in all, photocopied on plainfield. Afterword by Marvin Sachner. 1990, 8.5 x 11 in mint condition $175.

jwcurry Re: Views: Re: Sponses Collected Concrete Criticisms, 1981-1990 That's Right! Concrete on concrete; the idiom retinews. Reproductions are fuzzy to my taste but the colour ones are non-pareiI. Runaway Spoon Press, 1991. 8.5 x 11, 46 pp. with paper covers scored andperfectly bound. A tear to th spine top, otherwise Fine, $40.

jwcurry, editor Spudburn l Assemblage from Psycho Potato Press limited to 5O copies in1985. 6.25 x 8 , 13 contibutions and a colophon. Smoke damage to white cardboard wraparound. contents and the silver tassel that holds them in place still as new. Good condition and extremely rare $125.

jwcurry, editor Spudburn 6 Assemblage; very strong, more international including Carla Bertola among the 11 contributors. More preparation of the paper before writing by the poets than previous issues had. Powder blue card stock covers perforated then hand sewn together with red thread. Psycho Potato for 1992. As new condition $180.

jwcurry, editor Spudburn 7 Assemblage that we thought would never arrive.
Continuing the alteration of tight and loose bindings this one's loose and down to 8 contributors. The fanatics of 1997. 7 x 9.25. As New $100

jwcurry, editor Spudburn 8 Back to a tight binding, 12 contributors and a bigfoot potato on the front cream-card cover. Press insignia and glued on facsimile of a dog graphed on inside of back cover. published in january 199. 5.5 x 8.5 with a stain or two. Fine condition overall $90.

jwcurry, editor Spudburn 9 Loose binding again, a one-piece cover that folds over the side face so only the top papers are open to the air. 11 contributors and an aqua design heading the colophon. 6.25 x 9 with some serious smoke staing to outer back cover. Everything else crisp and as new $75.

Keith, Bill Pictographs Big bold page-bite black printings linking concrete to West African visaul traditions. 7 x 95, 50 pp. No lift to laminate paper covers. fine condition altogether $25.

Kempton, Karl, guest editor; David Detrich, general editor Innovation 1 "Visual Language/Craving Burden" Essays & Demonstrations Pink wrapper glued to green card covers. Though this copy seems to be missing the cover illustration, it's still worth listing for its original poems,, most not available in any other book and its serious consideration of concrete energy in confluence with postmodernism and, not the least, because of its original format: 11 x 8.5 $30.

Knowles, Alison Spoken Text. First edition of new fluxus collection fro left hand books in 1994. Thick boards, grey matte dustjacket, yellow endpapers all in Fine condition. 7.5 x 8.5 , 139 pp. $80

Kostelanetz, Richard, editor with an introduction Assembling Assembling. The assemblings in process in retrospective. Some wear, no tear. 1978. 8.5 x 11, 96 pp. Fine overall condition. $40

Learn, Beth, Richard Kostelanetz, & the Kensington Arts Association Language & Structure in North America. "The first large definitive survey of North American Language Art" is the collection of texts from an installatlon the Five Six Seven Gallery November 4-30, 1975, with an introduction by the guest curator, Richard Kostelanetz. 6 x 9, 80 pp. Paper board covers so sturdy stains only add to glyph-like design. Vintage condition $40.

Lewis, Ken THESE! Encampments! Found poems, acetate-rotations and serial explosions of toner included. 7 x 8.5, 80 pp. First edition paperback from quarry Press in 1982. Mint condition $25.

Lucie-Smith, Edward, editor Primer of Experimental Poetry 1: 1870 - 1922 Cancelled library book from the North East Lincolnshire Libraries in England. begins with Symbolism, a la Rimbaud and concludes with Mayakovsky and Pound in "The Vision of the Self and the Vision of Reality." Poems in original languages and rendered into English by various translators -though usually the editor. 5.75 x 8.75, 138 pp. cloth covers with pink dustjacket and library cellophane from Rapp and Whiting of 1971. Stains, card, card-pocket, cancellation stamp all clear and fine $45.

McCaffery, Steve The Black Debt Big black type with double justified margins retracting at the incidence of the comma to keep those semantic wolves at bay. Materiality against accumulation. 6 x 9, 202 pp. Blue paper boards, cover perfectly inappropriately pretty (by Steve). Nightwood editions of 19Finefinefinie $30.

McCaffery, Steve Carnival, the First Panel: 1967- 70 Red and Black Ribbons of typewriter 'krete. Has a lie-in of the shape progression under the front panel. Even more marvelous when you hang the poems from the ceiling. Stapled from the top and taped over. Rectangle of discolouring to back cover. 8.5 x 11.5 from Coach House Press in 1973. Good condition $80.

McCaffery, Steve Carnival, the Second Panel: 1970-75 The dialogic frolic catapults; more architectonic then the first panel -it even had spinoffs. Purposely undated, but '76 is when it appeared. Totally Fine condition $120.

McCaffery, Steve and bpNichol, editors Sound Poetry: A Catalogue For the Eleventh Annual International Sound Poetry Festival Toronto, Canada October 14 - 21, 1978. Poems, author photos and bibliographies. 5.5 x 8, 112 pp. Yellow paper covers fragile but fine. Texts as new $35.

Morgan, Edwin The Second Life: Selected Poems The European poet from Scotland in a University of Edinburgh paperbound edition of 1968. Big golden sunflower with eyelashes on the cover. Seriality the backbone to even the non-concrete poems here. 7.25 x 9, 89 pp. with a humidity warp to the whole volume $25.

Nations, Opal Louis The Hats & Stockings of Great Heroes Who Sang for Six Months Serial and conceptual art in the performative mode. From Proper Tales Press of 1986. 5.5 x 8.5, 24 pp. staplebound, red and black printed on yellow covers As New $20.

Nichol bp Theory 1-4 4 vocalic speculations distilled by our favourite alchemist. CURVD H&Z #282, #63 in the Th Wrecking Ballzark Series and edited by jwcurry in an edition of 100 copies in 1984. 8.5 x 11.5, 4 pp. stapled through the front card and masking-taped over (thinly). The foxes have been at it but still Good condition $30.

Nichol, bp Translating Translating Apollinaire: A Preliminary Report The breakthrough volume /to an organic language specular from Membrane Press Milwaukee WI in1979. 46 oraculations, 8 x 10.5, 54 pp. red endpapers. Front crem cover has smoke stain, p. 8 has ink dot, condition Good $88.

Owen Sound Meaford Tank Range My copy, rather hilariously, is waterstained from the back. 7" record, "Simultaneous Translation" included (for 33-1/3rpm playing). 11 x 8.5, Fair reading copy1976; Fine listening $20.

Riddell, John Criss-Cross Concret fictions, typewriter acetates, colour overwrites and comic strip confections from one half of the cosmic chef. Coach House 1977 in 6 x 8 format, 182 pp. in Fine condition paper covers perfectly bound. $35.

Riddell, John Transitions Terrific work; cover is block of prose on blown thumbprint and it rides from there. Photocopy art, backgrounds in red, green and putrid yellow (sometimes), Aya Press,1980. 6 x 8, 144 pp. Smoke stains to all margins of paper cover and spine. Text fine though $30.

Rothenberg, Jerome, editor Revolution of the Word: A New gathering of American Avant-Garde Poetry 1914-1945 30 contributors including Marcel Duchamp and Jackson Mac Low. 6,5 x 8, 260 pp. from Seabury of 1974. Coffee stains on fron paper cover. no lift though. Text in Fine condition $30.

Rot, Dieter Gesammelte Werke, Band 13 Fabulous stuff! Like watching language liquefy through a turning of painterly stills; white through indigo through light and hot pink to aqua paper grounds. By a chief ministrant of materiality. Edition Hansjorg Mayer, Stuttgart London Reykjavik1972. 6.75 x 8.75, 472 pp. Smoke stains to the spine and back cover are only inticements of mortality. Fine overall condition $150

Schraenen, Guy, editor In Octavo Assemblage; 10 textual artists each composing an 8 page, 6x 8-1/2" booklet, staplebound and encased in a cardboard container, Includes, for example, pages by Henri Chopin & Jiri Kolar. 1990. As new condition $200.

Schwitters, Kurt PPPPPP Poems Performance Pieces Proses Plays Poetics Edited and translated by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris with selections from all aspects of the poet's work. 4 full-colour plates of collage included. 7.25 x 10.5, 233 pp. from Temple University Press in 1993. As New condition $80.

Swift, Jonathan / Carroll Mary Ellen A Modest Proposal/A Modist Prepozel
Phonetic translation of the Swift satire with an essay in explanation by Frank T Boyle. Also called, 'homolinguistic translation '. Green cloth boards printed and cover by thin brown kraft paper which is also printed with titles.1994. Mint condition $50.

Troendle, Yves This Blue Marble Certainty At the exigency of the 'other' language exuding. Little 's's Unbound abounding. 8.5 x 9, 62 pp. paper card folded for flaps and bound by stiff clamping plastic. Cover has blue marbled painting glued to white with no wrap; in fact this one has a tear to its painting and sundry other stains. good condition $25.

Troendle, Yves Franz Muller's Wire Spring Time Yves first, a Merz novel taking up from an abandoned (and lost) colloboration of Kurt Schwitters and Hans Arp. Peels like a merz onion to the heart of 20's Deutchland in 7 layers, one of them primarily graphic. 5.5 x 9, 106 pp. First edition and in fact the first book published under the Imago Press imprint. Mint condition and rare $30.

Tzara, Tristan Chanson Dada A joint Coach House Press and Underwich Edition of 1987 containing all the English poet, Lee Harwood's translations from the legendary Dadaist's work. Followed by the translator's introduction, a list of sources and a Tzara bibliography. 5.25 x 8.75, 146 pp between paper cards and sturdily bound. Fine condition $25.

Was, Elizabeth The Parisian Winter Ensemble: A Dance Trailing brushstrokes on turquoise paper with discontinuous perception descending through them. Covered with velvet fabric -a hole through it for the title and bound by wing-nut rivets in reverse. A Xerox sutra edition of 198, 8.5 x 4, 118 pp. printed one side only. Fine $45.

Wernisch, Rudolph, Pavel Rudolph, Jiri Hula and Vaclav Vokolek. Sonety
3 Slovakian poets and a painter push the sonnet form to its sernantic vanishing point; the first two using a translation of Rimbaud's "Sonnet to the Vowels", the third, Baudelaire's "Correspondences", and the painter the quantity of marks per page as a refernce point. 7.75 x 11, 44 leaves printed on one side and not bound but held by a folded over flap at the side face. Some wear and smoke stains to the back cover. Good condition $25.

Zend, Robert Nicolette Poised and playful and liberating the words through humour. First edition paperback published posthumously by Cacanadadada in 1993.6 x 9, 148 pp. with a ripple from the back cover through the back pages of the book. Good condition overall $25.