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His work is not to be read in any traditional sense, as it challenges the very idea of reading; rather, it may be understood as a practice that forces readers to reconsider what they think they know. As beaulieu continues to push himself in new directions, readers will appreciate the work that he has created to date, much of which has become unavailable in Canada.     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Flowing away from meaning, letters and words gather and pool into puddles of poetry; street signs and logos reflected in the oily sheen of polluted gutters of rainwater. Like a funhouse mirror reflecting the language that surrounds us, the pages drip over the margins, suggesting that Madge was right, we are “soaking in it!”    Surface Tension updates visual poetry for our post-pandemic age, asking us rethink the verbiage around us, to imagine letters as images instead of text, to find meaning in their beautiful shapes as Beaulieu stretches, torques, slides, blurs, and melts them into Dali-esque collages.     \"The striking compositions you’ll find in Surface Tension are being presented sequentially in book form, yet that they wouldn’t be out of place hanging on the wall goes without saying. Beaulieu swerves Gomringer when writing that 'Readibility is the key: like a logo, a poem should be instantly recognizable...' yet, to this reader, these works merit sustained and enthusiastic viewing precisely because they teeter on the edge of legibility. The kinetic, glitchy quality of their 'alphabetic strangeness' keeps them unrecognizable as poems and, here, 'that is poetry as I need it,' to quote Cage. Think of them as anti-advertisings selling you nothing but bountiful manifestations of the irreducible plasticity of numbers, punctuation marks, and letter forms. No logos.\" – Mónica de la Torre, Madelon Leventhal Rand Endowed Chair in Literature, Brooklyn College; co-editor of Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979  \"With his distinctive visual palindromes and angled axes of symmetry, Derek Beaulieu has developed a signature mastery of Letraset, leveraging the twentieth-century technology as a vehicle for bring concrete poetry into the twenty-first century. With Surface Tension, Beaulieu takes the possibilities of that new idiom even further, unsettling the fixity his symmetries once reinforced and dislodging the set in Letraset as poems distort in fun-house-mirror swerves, sag as if under their own weight, pool and smear in the liquid logic of heated ink, or swoop and blur as if in motion. In the process, these poems make visible the filmic potential of the photocopier, the facture of abraded transfers from brittling stock, and the three-dimensional substrate of the page with its flexible bends in curving space. These are thus poems in part about their own modes of production. They are beautiful products of a self-aware and intelligent process.\" – Craig Dworkin, author of Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality  \"'When most of the language we consume is non-poetic, should poetry not attempt to poetically intervene within these spaces that are not traditionally poetic?' The answer to Derek Beaulieu’s question, put forward in his beautiful essay, is surely yes: the ten brilliantly adventurous visual poems in his Surface Tension make a startling case for his fascinating Letraset\/photocopier inventions. Beaulieu’s compositions originate in a place of clean design and logical narrative; soon, as in a dream, they open up, ushering in what he calls 'a poetry of difference, chance, eruption.' Marcel Duchamp would have called it the poetry of the infrathin: watch 'Simple Symmetry' or 'Dendrochronology' open up and come alive in their minutely evolving new spaces. This is quite simply an enchanting book – a book producing new pleasures with each turn of the page.\" – Marjorie Perloff, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Emerita, Stanford University","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49746021089553,"sku":"NGR9781552454503","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52424691417361,"sku":"NLS9781552454503","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53014949429521,"sku":"NIN9781552454503","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1552454509.jpg?v=1750894632"},{"product_id":"a-a-novel-book-derek-beaulieu-9782365680196","title":"a, A Novel","description":"Derek Beaulieu’s a, A Novel is an erasure-based translative response to Andy Warhol’s eponymous novel.  Beaulieu carefully erases all of the text on each page of the original work, leaving only the punctuation marks, typists’ insertions and onomatopoeic words.  The resultant text is a novelistic ballet mécanique, a visual orchestration of the traffic signals and street noise of 1960’s New York City.  This visually powerful half score\/half novel highlights the musicality of non-narrative sounds embedded within conversation.   Published in the autumn of 1968, Andy Warhol’s a, A Novel consists solely of the transcribed conversations of Factory denizen Ondine (Robert Olivo).  Ondine’s amphetamine-addled conversations were captured on audiotape as he haunted the Factory, hailed cabs to late-night parties and traded gossip with Warhol and his coterie. The tapes were transcribed by a small group of high school students.  Rife with typographic errors, censored sections, and a chorus of voices, the 451 pages of transcription became, unedited, “a new kind of pop artefact”. These pages emphasize transcription over narration, chance over composition.   In his book, Derek Beaulieu offers a radical displacement of Andy Warhol’s work.  He erases the novel’s speaking characters — members  of the mid-1960s New York avant-garde — and preserves only the musicality of their conversations.  Beaulieu perfectly provides a tangible example of Theodor Adorno’s theory elaborated in his essay “Punctuation Marks” (1956), in which he argues that punctuation marks are the “traffic signals” of literature and that there is “no element in which language resembles music more than in the punctuation marks”.  This visual poetry is accompanied by an essay by Gilda Williams, “Breaking Up is Hard to Do. Men, Women, and Punctuation in Warhol’s Novel a”.  Her deep knowledge of both Andy Warhol’s work and the history of contemporary art explores the complicated history of the original novel and highlights the urgent and precise spirit of Derek Beaulieu’s work—the work of an artist who situates Uncreative Writing at the core of contemporary literature and also shows in his book a feminist gesture.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49880109744401,"sku":"NGR9782365680196","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2365680194.jpg?v=1751220426"},{"product_id":"nights-on-prose-mountain-book-derek-beaulieu-9781552453742","title":"Nights on Prose Mountain","description":"Nights on Prose Mountain gathers all of beloved writer bpNichol's published fiction. 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In an intriguing and well-argued afterword, beaulieu also theorizes ways that concrete poetry--poetry that deals with language in a physical, material way--can move forward into the twenty-first century beyond the limitations of the page, the author and even the poem itself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52689170432273,"sku":"NLS9780889225398","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780889225398.jpg?v=1762334695"},{"product_id":"do-it-wrong-book-derek-beaulieu-9781998336296","title":"Do It Wrong","description":"A radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetry    Do It Wrong is a short, snappy series of provocations and suggestions designed to help poets think outside the box and foster creativity.    It’s a permission slip to take a path others reject, to do the counter-intuitive thing, to embrace the weird.    It's a guidebook designed to bring poets together, to question our assumptions, and to move past the “business as usual” educational models into the new, the strange, and the “wrong.”    And it's a playful, purposeful contribution toward the building of stronger, more resilient writing communities.    For readers of Beth Pickens’s Make Your Art No Matter What and Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist, Derek Beaulieu distills 20 years of experience teaching creative writing into a joyfully mischievous manifesto on how to write and teach poetry with meaning.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53018398097681,"sku":"NGR9781998336296","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53262168588561,"sku":"NIN9781998336296","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53595582595345,"sku":"NLS9781998336296","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781998336296.jpg?v=1768260051"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-derek-beaulieu.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}