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Posted: Thursday August 12, 2010

Carl Peters

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 is due out from Talonbooks in the fall of 2011. Dr. Peters teaches poetics and avant-garde art at the University of the Fraser Valley. He is currently working on an annotated study of Gertrude Stein.

LATEST Carl Peters NEWS

December 2011 : A B Series Launch For Two New bill bissett Books

December 2011 : Talonbooks Presents Karl and Christy Siegler's Farewell Bash

October 2011 : textual vishyuns is here!

August 2011 : Vancouver Poets Pay Homage to bill bissett

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QUOTES OF NOTE

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

"Carl Peters has written—nay produced!—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. In Peters’ eye and mind images are touched by voice to the letters on the page. We glimpse through film shots Magritte and Malevich-views that illuminate the intimate in the eye and ear of the beholder. This is an aesthetic right at home in its sensual perception of the uncanniness of these times. 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." —George Bowering

textual vishyuns
Carl Peters
Non-Fiction

bpNichol Comics
bp Nichol
Edited by Carl Peters
Poetry

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts; the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program; and the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council for our publishing activities.