Aka bpNichol: A Preliminary Biography

Frank Davey

Aka bpNichol: A Preliminary Biography
Format
Paperback
Publisher
ECW Press,Canada
Country
Canada
Published
26 September 2012
Pages
338
ISBN
9781770410190

Aka bpNichol: A Preliminary Biography

Frank Davey

Reflecting on the career of a prominent poet, this biography focuses on Canadian wordsmith Barrie Nichol more commonly known by his pen name, bpNichol who was a practicing lay psychoanalyst and vice president of one the largest and long-lasting North American communes for more than a decade. Recognizing his international influence as both a visual and sound poet, Nichol’s literary achievements are reviewed, including The Martyrology a renowned, seven-volume poem four novels, two musical comedies, six children’s books, hundreds of hand-drawn visual poems, and even 10 episodes of Jim Henson’s hit television series Fraggle Rock. Penned by one of Nichol’s numerous literary collaborators, this account reveals the close connections among the writer’s various activities, particularly how the autobiographical inquiries and Freudian dream theory linked with the young poet’s biographical self-awareness. The book demonstrates how the subject’s main psychoanalytic client was his own writing, following Nichol as he explored its slips, accidental puns, and unintended meanings and implications for the communal future of the human species both in high literature and comical prime time television.

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