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    Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton
    Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton
    Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton
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    Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton

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    Sonosyntactics introduces the reader to over forty-five years of Paul Dutton’s diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Perhaps best known for his acclaimed solo sound performances and his contributions to the iconic sound poetry group The Four Horsemen, Dutton is a surprising, witty, sensitive, and innovative explorer of language and of the human. This volume gathers a representative selection of his most significant and characteristic poetry together with a generous selection of uncollected new work.

    Sonosyntactics demonstrates Dutton’s willingness to (re)invent and stretch language and to listen for new possibilities while at the same time engaging with his perennial concerns—love, sex, music, time, thought, humour, the materiality of language, and poetry itself.

    Gary Barwin’s introduction outlines the major subjects and techniques of Dutton’s poetry: an intricate weaving of thought and language, sound and emotion, sound and sense, and the unfolding of a text through the logic of language play such as puns, paradoxes, ambiguity, and sound relations. In an afterword by Dutton himself, the poet insightfully lays out the terms of his engagement with the materiality—both visual and aural—of language, often beyond the purely recountable, representational, or depictive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press
    Release dateNov 7, 2015
    ISBN9781771121347
    Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton
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    Paul Dutton

    For over four decades, writer and musician Paul Dutton has steadfastly maintained his commitment to the integrated expression of the literary, the sonic, and the visual. He has issued seven books (poetry, fiction) and five recordings, plus eleven print and audio collaborations (The Four Horsemen, CCMC, and others), and has performed across three continents, solo and in ensembles.

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      Sonosyntactics - Paul Dutton

      Sonosyntactics Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton

      Sonosyntactics Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton

      Selected with an introduction by Gary Barwin

      and an afterword by Paul Dutton

      Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. This work was supported by the Research Support Fund.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Dutton, Paul, 1943–

      [Poems. Selections]

      Sonosyntactics : selected and new poetry of Paul Dutton / selected with an introduction by Gary Barwin and an afterword by Paul Dutton.

      (Laurier poetry)

      New and selected poems.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-77112-132-3 (pbk.).—ISBN 978-1-77112-134-7 (epub).—

      ISBN 978-1-77112-133-0 (pdf)

      I. Barwin, Gary, editor II. Title. III. Series: Laurier poetry series

      PS8557.U88S66 2015   C811’.54    C2015-901589-8   C2015-901590-1

      Front-cover image: detail from The Plastic Typewriter, 5, by Paul Dutton, adapted by Gary Barwin. Cover design and text design by Pam Woodland.

      © 2015 Wilfrid Laurier University Press

      Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

      www.wlupress.wlu.ca

      This book is printed on FSC® certified paper and is certified Ecologo. It contains post-consumer fibre, is processed chlorine free, and is manufactured using biogas energy.

      Printed in Canada

      Every reasonable effort has been made to acquire permission for copyright material used in this text, and to acknowledge all such indebtedness accurately. Any errors and omissions called to the publisher’s attention will be corrected in future printings.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written consent of the publisher or a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For an Access Copyright licence, visit http://www.accesscopyright.ca or call toll free to 1-800-893-5777.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword, Neil Besner

      Biographical Note

      Introduction, Gary Barwin

      from Partial 2 in The Four Horsemen’s Horse d’Oeuvres

      Milk-Cart Roan

      Lines on a Line of Kurt Schwitters

      January 25 or 26, 12:30

      Solitude

      from The Book of Numbers

      Chapter One

      Chapter Eighteen

      Chapter Twenty

      Chapter Twenty-One

      from Right Hemisphere, Left Ear

      Second Poem for Maurits Escher

      His Eyes, Her Eyes

      Census

      Mondriaan Boogie Woogie, 3

      Mondriaan Boogie Woogie, 4

      So’nets 1–2

      So’nets 3–4

      So’nets 5–6

      So’nets 7

      Uncle Rebus Clean-Song

      Jazz Musician

      A Little Light Love

      from The Four Horsemen’s The Prose Tattoo

      Coffee Break

      from Visionary Portraits

      Visionary Portrait 2

      from Aurealities

      Alpha–Omega

      Else

      T’ Her

      The Eighth Sea

      Haiku

      Missed Haiku

      Pact with the Devil

      Lullaby

      Awe

      Bloodlust

      War of the Sexes

      Reminiscence

      This and That

      Board Residence

      Kettle Foliation

      Breeches

      Isothermal Idiom

      Hereat

      Dossier

      Salve

      Telegram

      from The Plastic Typewriter

      3

      4

      6

      7

      13

      16

      from Partial Additives (Visuals by Bob Cobbing)

      Bluebell

      Phoenix

      Carousel

      New Poems 1991–2014

      Kit Talk

      Strata

      Thinking

      Narcissus A, 4

      One Plus

      Of Blue

      Shy Thought

      Jazzstory

      Déjà Vu

      Chameleon

      Parentheses 1

      Parentheses 2

      Parentheses 3

      Narcissus A, 8

      Mercure

      A Thought

      Aprilogy

      Short Story

      She

      Speech Sequence

      Eye

      Afterword, Paul Dutton

      Acknowledgements

      Foreword

      The Laurier Poetry Series began in 2004 with the appearance of Before the First Word, a volume of Lorna Crozier’s poetry most ably edited by Winnipeg poet Catherine Hunter. Our hope was to bring contemporary Canadian poetry to its readers in a different way—by selecting thirty-five poems from across a poet’s career, and by asking the editor and the poet to write an engaging and accessible introduction and afterword, respectively. Crozier and Hunter set the bar very high.

      I admit that one ambition I had in mind then—I still do—was to match the reach of the New Canadian Library. I imagined, hoped that what that series has done, mostly for Canadian fiction, the Laurier series would do for Canadian poetry. I hoped that in the high school and university classroom, poets would be better served by a volume that represented their work more widely than the usual anthology, with one or at best a few poems from each poet. And I hoped that more readers, old and new, beyond the classroom, maybe outside of Canada, would find these volumes appealing.

      Ten years later, with the twentieth volume just gone to press—and with the very recent and happy experience of using ten of the Laurier volumes, including Crozier’s, in a fourth-year university class on contemporary Canadian poetry—a warm and vivid image arises in memory of poet Brian Henderson, then as now the Director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press, asking me over a beer on a hot June afternoon in 2002 in Toronto, at the Learneds, whether I might be interested in editing a series like this one. Then as now, I thought the idea was excellent. I didn’t know if it would fly, though Brian’s was, then as now, an inspired idea. A few more beers and an hour or so later, we agreed to give it a shot.

      Over this last (fast!) decade the dedicated group that Brian leads at WLUP—especially managing editor Rob Kohlmeier and his luminous team—have worked with an unimaginably wide range of poets and poetics. To what little I knew in 2004 about publishing, they have added their consummate and patient professionalism.

      What continues to inspire me about the Laurier Poetry Series, or LPS, has been its reception across the country. The love and art and passion and intimacy that twenty editors and twenty poets have brought to their volumes; the innumerable hours and conversations and meetings, the thousands of emails between and among poets and editors and Wilfrid Laurier; the generous reviews in the country’s journals; the reception in classrooms

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