4to. Ring bound. [78pp. printed on rectos only]. Text with visuals, composed serially from 1999 to 2001 and originally issued in sets of loose prints on heavy card; this is the first bound edition, consisting of 100 signed and numbered copies. Blank back cover very lightly soiled and creased, corners very gently bumped, but Very Good indeed, held in slightly rubbed resealable plastic bag.

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Title: Dante's Barber Shop (De Vulgari Eloquentia)
Publisher: West House Books, Sheffield
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0953150984
ISBN 13: 9780953150984
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: First Edition Thus.
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Poetry. Art. First bound edition consists of 100 numbered and signed copies. "To say he 'tows the line of longitude' scarcely needs correction or apology even if we believe as I sometimes don't the linguistics textbook that ordinary language is good." So opens DANTE'S BARBERSHOP.The complex, connotatively rich performance of speech and writing acts that comprise this densely prosodized and highly visual work are built into columns embedded in a series of Xeroxed collages of photos and other material. This latest book by the author of WITTGENSTEIN'S DEVIL, THW WRITING OF SHELLEY'S DEATH (among many other titles)and co-author of the recent DAYS OF '49, FIT TO PRINT and A SELECTION OF THE WORKS OF THOMAS SWAN (see page 30) is one of most compelling works the reader of contemporary poetry is likely to find anywhere. Spiralbound, large format.

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Alan Halsey was born in London in 1949, earned a philosophy degree, London, 1972, and ran The Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye 1979-97. He lived in Sheffield since 1997, working as a specialist bookseller and publishing West House Books. He married Geraldine Monk in 1998.

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