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Zygal - A Book of Mysteries and Translations - cover

Zygal - A Book of Mysteries and Translations

bp Nichol

Publisher: Coach House Books

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Summary

Originally twelve years in the making! Featuring a cast of thousands. It still stars the letter H, and introduces Probable Systems, Negatives, and the Actual Life of Language! Your heart will pound as you see H's turn into I's before your very own eyes. You'll thrill as words fall apart only to create other words. You'll gasp as bpNichol collaborates with the dead. You'll shake your head in disbelief as he walks the line between fact and fiction one step beyond into the twilight zone of 'pataphysics.
Available since: 01/01/1998.
Print length: 128 pages.

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