Truth: A Book of Fictions

by bpNichol

A Book of Fictions takes reading through the looking-glass to haunt those linguistic frontiers where pun, paradox and contradiction reign supreme and to navigate the delirious other side of sense where language emerges as the obsessive object of both analysis and desire.

A Book of Fictions is a valuable addition to Nichol?s oeuvre. Caringly edited by Irene Niechoda, its range encompasses studies in contradictory information, the book-machine, a "pataphysical hardware catalogue, allegories of the single letter and the alternate semiotics of cartoon clouds. Spanning more than twenty years? worth of rich material, it will be welcomed by logophiliacs and paradoxophiles alike. For as John Ruskin put it, when love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

176 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1993

About the author

Barrie Phillip Nichol, known as bpNichol, was a Canadian poet, writer, sound poet, editor and grOnk/Ganglia Press publisher. His body of work encompasses poetry, children's books, television scripts, novels, short fiction, computer texts, and sound poetry. His love of language and writing, evident in his many accomplishments, continues to be carried forward by many.

Reviews

[Evan Pincus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sort of like the experience of reading a John Cage collection, where I come away thinking in new and unbelievably exciting ways I never would have otherwise but also get kind of frustrated with the eclectic anthologizing and metaphysical obsessions (in Cage's case zen, in bpNichols' case "pataphysics). Pretty sure bpNichols is about to be one of my all time guys but also good grief lmao