The Obvious Flap

by Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts

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what if the rain
referred to something else?
and bowling
and shoes
were done with the mouth?

Sometimes language, thoughts, and emotions are a fixed structure like a warehouse. Sometimes they are fog, waves, light, or music. This is LSE: Language as a second English. English as a grammar of ghosts. Words as the snowfall of ideas.

The Obvious Flap is a musical, poetic flux of recurring and recursive images exploring language's luminous fringes of language. The text weaves a variety of thematic threads of humour, literary allusions, and narrative into a fabric that spreads into an open, proprioceptive linguistic environment. Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts have concocted a collaborative jam session for multiple larynxes and have made an obvious flap as they have fallen through the mirror into Plunderland.

not everyone is a poet
my dog for instance.
  • ISBN10 1897388780
  • ISBN13 9781897388785
  • Publish Date 30 May 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Book*hug
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 96
  • Language English