Errata 5uite

Retallack, Joan. Errata 5uite. Washington, DC: Edge, (1993). 8vo. [8], 63pp. Original b/w illustrated wraps with red lettering. Some of Retallack’s poetry in this work have appeared in Avec, Ninth decade (London), Writing (Vancouver), and The Art of Practice: Forty-Five Contemporary Poets, Potes & Poets Press. “The germ of Joan Retallack’s brilliantly inventive Errata 5uite lies in the coming together of that pedestrian object, the errata slip, with the five line musical staff….”5uite” is not just “suite,” and nothing the poet has read or thought about or imagined turns out to be quite what it seems. For Retallack, language is never only the means to an end; rather it is – subject, object, material, texture – the site (sight) of all our actions and imaginings. From the “Book of Nature whole as writ (Look!)” to the Book of Culture that is always already being (re)written, Retallack (the name itself a play on errata?) shares with the reader what it means to engage with the pleasure of text.” (Marjorie Perloff).

Minor age wear, with some shading of cover. Wraps in good, interior in near fine condition. Good to near fine condition. Softcover. (51021) $50