Clean Sails

by Gustave Morin

Poetry. Art. The 160 pages of CLEAN SAILS were wrested from dozens of typewriters, some of them hand- modified, through countless thousands of hours of typing over the past half- decade, and informed by Gustave Morin's quarter-century of investigation into the (im)possibilities of concrete poetry.

"This is one hell of a ride you won't want to miss."—Derek Pell

Genres: Poetry

164 pages, Paperback

Published November 12, 2015

Reviews

[Jason Ly · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very clever and sometimes humorous book of typewriter concrete poetry where letters and characters are used to form pictures or even textures. There aren't many books like this and it is very expansive in exploring what the typewriter can do. It's also kinda crazy that they gave a title to each piece haha.

[dimwig · Rating 4 out of 5]

lovely object at the edge of language — i find myself thinking about CANADA a lot these days, what CANADIAN LITERATURE is or ought to be, what we (WE) do best (BEST), and i think that this sort of thing is IT (or at least, one of the ITs) — hermetic & humourous — years of devotional labour resulting in an object of quietly relentless craft and unassuming beauty.