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Description
These annotations to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons underline her eccentric use of the sounds and rhythms rather than the sense of words. Peters illuminates the long prose-poem's departures from conventional meaning and grammar and brings understanding to syntax noted for its defiance of conventional norms. The analysis is sensitive to themes of emerging modernism and cubism, but also early feminism.
Contributor Notes
Carl Peters wrote his MA thesis on bp Nichol and the Kabbalah and his doctoral thesis on Nichol and the practice of the sacred. His critical study of bill bissett was published by Talonbooks in the fall of 2011. Dr. Peters taught poetics and avant-garde art at the University of the Fraser Valley.
Editorial Review
Reviews for Previous Work – textual vishyuns
"A much-needed study, by turns polemical and proselytizing. Peters’ book signifies a crucial starting point for investigation of bissett’s important contributions to Canadian literature." – Canadian Literature
"an astonishing book on how bill bissett thinks within his art. Here is a discovery of poetic space and time coming together, where we glean time and space entering into empathy with the object. Peters’ learned awareness of the image’s relationship to bissett’s surreal vulnerability to surface and depth reveals the graphic touch of the voice and hand, whether on paper or canvas ... textual vishyuns is not only a book on bill bissett, but also a way of bringing modernist thought and vision together without taking either apart." – Jerry Zaslove
"Carl Peters has pulled off a terrific critical irony for our neomodal time, the first scholarly study of bill bissett’s poems and pictures. His referentiality is wide and his blade is sharp. He is both argumentative and blissful. I’d say that bill is fortunate to have this knowledgeable attentiveness, and I’d guess that he would agree." DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm" align=right>– George Bowering
