tattered sails (after un coup de des)
Beaulieu Derek, tattered sails ( after un coup de des ) (Ottawa: above/ground press, 2018).
Beaulieu Derek, tattered sails ( after un coup de des ) (Ottawa: above/ground press, 2018).
Derek Beaulieu
tattered sails (after un coup de des)
Ottawa: above/ground press, 2018
215 x 140 mm, 12
Inkjet, stapled
ISBN 
978-1-988495-65-1

Broodthaers’ version of Un coup de Dés elevates layout and structure to the level of writing itself; content becomes secondary to decisions of the tactile treatment of text. With Tattered Sails, I have continued the tactile treatment of this poem by folding the double-sized pages of Broodthaers’ poem (suggesting the hang and fold of sails on the mast), shifting Broodthaers’ bars in to the heaving beams and broken masts of a ship-wreck of meaning.

 

Derek Beaulieu