written matter
Poems and photos by Andrew McLuhan
72 pages / 23 March 2021 / 9781947544345
I hurt my angels
and my angels
got tangled
in five angles
—Ezra McLuhan, 2017
Soft touch matte cover paperback.
Book design by Joseph Uccello. Printed on paper with 30% PCW and bound in the United States.
About the Author
Andrew McLuhan is a husband, father, writer, researcher, teacher, craftsman, and author, based on a “word farm” (as youngest son Virgil calls it) near Bloomfield, Ontario, Canada. While Andrew’s well-known grandfather Marshall McLuhan, and father Eric McLuhan, formally studied and taught poetry, he prefers to explore it from the inside out, experimenting with perception and the senses, playing with language and form, and particularly with the analog instruments of pen and pencil and paper.
written matter is Andrew’s first book, following seven ‘zines of art and poetry and a self-published work of science fiction, The Mutant Beavers of Delhi.
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See my review at https://midnightoilstudios.org/2021/03/07/written-matter/
Spontaneous, immediate, loving, poignant, illuminating… Written Matter may be a first book of poetry—but it seems more than that: it’s an original quest into impression and suggestion, with words on one side of the page, then handwritten versions and photos on the other, creating a Blakean harmony of lyric and image. Andrew McLuhan writes with a rare trust in the touch of his hand to the page, in his eye for patterns in trees and branches, in wood-beam house junctures and door-locks, what promises crossroads and openings. His pen is his antenna, his page is his sky, his images his field of associations, his combinations his alchemy.