This online edition of
Aurealties was published in April, 1998. Click here to order the 72 page perfectbound paperback.
ISBN 1-55245-997-7
Coach House Books, 1998
"The baddest poet in all of Canada." FLUSH RIGHT FLUSH RIGHT-Clifton
Joseph
"Paul Dutton's Aurealities shines like lunar
phosphoresence in its nocturne of pensive sounds and textural linguistic quirks
and quarks. So damned refreshing reading the avant-lingua eccentricities of a
real poet, who defies the current trend, that claque of politically correct
musifiers. Language for invention's sake (no bloody messages) and the stuff will
make the listener's hair bristle. New explorations into the darker bowels of
caves - metaphor - that and more. Hurray for the inspiare of
an original voice, a lover of chromatics in sound. I tell you, Dutton's head is
haunted." FLUSH RIGHT FLUSH RIGHT-Joe Rosenblatt
A number of these poems (some in earlier versions), have appeared in Anerca,
Canadian Forum, Cross Canada Writers' Quarterly, curvd h&z, grOnk/Poetry
Canada Review, Mental Radio, Poetry Toronto, Rampike, the anthologies Into
the Night Life and When Is a Poem, and on the cassettes Voice
Mix and Fugitive Forms.
The author is grateful to the Canada Council and the Ontario
Arts Council, whose financial support made possible the completion of this
book.
Special thanks to Max Nord for kind permission to use his
article in the Amsterdam daily Het Parool, from which article "Double-Dutch
Talk" derives.
And thanks as well to Victor Coleman, jwcurry, Chris Dewdney,
Judith Fitzgerald, Lee Robinson, Mari-Lou Rowley, Lola Tostevin
(especially Lola), Gerry Shikatani, and Steven Smith for their comments
and encouragement. |
Other works by Paul Dutton
Books:
The Plastic Typewriter Partial Additives Horse D'Oeuvres (with The Four Horsemen)
Right Hemisphere, Left Ear The Book of Numbers
spokesheards (with Sandra Braman)
The Prose Tattoo (with The Four Horsemen)
Visionary Portraits
Recordings:
Decisive Moments (with CCMC) Full Throttle, a CCoMpliCes
(with CCMC) Canadada (with The Four Horsemen)
Live in the West (with The Four Horsemen)
Blues, Roots, Legends, Shouts and Hollers (one side)
Fugitive Forms Two Nights (with The
Four Horsemen) Bunker (with Don Wherry, Trevor
Wishart, and David Moss)
Copyright Paul Dutton 1991 |