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urn:uuid:3a80885a-8d06-4fd8-8dcc-1eed76b582f5 03 15 9781685711771 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Kern 1 A01 Derek Beaulieu <p><bold>Derek Beaulieu</bold> is the author and editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of fiction, <italic>Silence,</italic> is forthcoming from Sweden’s Timglaset Books, and his most recent volume of poetry, <italic>Surface Tension,</italic> was published by Toronto’s Coach House Books. Beaulieu has won multiple local and national awards for his teaching and dedication to students, including the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his dedication to Albertan literature, and is the only graduate from the University of Calgary’s Department of English to receive the Faculty of Arts “Celebrated Alumni Award.” Beaulieu holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Roehampton University, has served as poet laureate of both Calgary and Banff, and is the Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.</p> 01 eng 00 106 03 12 DCF 23 Fabulations 10 POE011000 23 visual poetry 23 dry-transfer lettering 23 asemic writing 23 language art 23 signage 23 advertising 23 graphic art 01 06 03 00 <p>Proposed as a collection of imaginary logos for the corporate sponsors of Borges’s Library of Babel, <italic>Kern</italic> balances on a precipice between the visual and nonsensical, offering poems just out of meaning’s reach. Using dry-transfer lettering, Beaulieu made these concrete pieces by hand, building the images gesturally in response to shapes and patterns in the letters themselves. This is poetry closer to architecture and design than confession, in which letters are released from their usual semantic duties as they slide into unexpected affinities and new patterns. <italic>Kern</italic> highlights the gaps inside what we see and what we know, filling the familiar with the singular and the just seen with the faintly remembered.</p><p>This title is a second edition, released as part of punctum’s <ext-link xlink:href="https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/punctum-introduces-special-collections-les-figues/">Special Collections</ext-link> project.</p> Les Figues 01 punctum books 04 01 20230921 02 WORLD 06 15 9781685711764 06 15 9781685711771 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01