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from the book that doesn't close
by Joe Blades
Nov. 2008
poetry & prose
7" x 5.5", perfect bound tpb
72 pp
ISBN 978-1-55391-067-1
$16 CDN, $18 US
“To turn to Joe Blades is to abandon classicism for exhuberant experimentation and openness of all sorts . . . a defiant “road book” reminiscent of Jack Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues . . . socks whimsy and drunken reality indelibly into the pages. There’s a debt to Allen Ginsberg here—as there sure well ought to be.
There is also a good deal of fun . . . madcap, zany, zesty, manic and also, here and there, sweetly lyrical.”
—George Elliott Clarke, The Sunday Herald
Since 1983 Joe Blades has been collecting the stuff of life in journals that travel everywhere with him. A fellow artist called one “the book that doesn’t close”. This book is drawn from writings in two of Blades’ journals.
Joe Blades is a Fredericton-based writer–artist on the editorial board of revue ellipse mag. Blades has given readings, lectures, and workshops across Canada, in the USA, Scotland, and Eastern Europe. He is a community radio producer-host at CHSR 97.9 FM with the award-winning weekly Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing and Arts program since 1995. He is the editor of ten publications, curator of a videopoem screening, and author of six poetry books, including River Suite and Casemate Poems (Collected). Two of his books have been translated and published in Serbian editions. He can be found online at brokenjoe.blogspot.com and joeblades.com.
Related Activities
11 Nov 2008, Tuesday, 7:30 pm: Nela Rio launched Aquella luz, la que estremece/The Light that Makes Us Tremble & Joe Blades launched from the book that doesn’t close. Café Volver, 5604 avenue du Parc, Montreal, QC.
12 Nov 2008, Wednesday: Noches de poesia, lectures débutant à 18h00 jusqu’à 20h00. Le Dépanneur Café, 206, rue Bernard Ouest, Montréal Québec H2T 2K4. T 514.271.9357, info@ledepanneurcafe.com. Programme : il semble que le Nouveau-Brunswick visite Montréal ce soir!!! Herménégilde Chiasson (français) et sa traductrice littéraire • Jo-Anne Elder (anglais +) • Nela Rio (espagnol) • Joe Blades (anglais) • Sandra Le Couteur (français) musique et poésie.
10 March, 2009: Joe Blades reading in the TREE Reading Series, "Library" of the Ottawa Arts Court, Ottawa, ON.
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