Please add: Mass on Cowback

[Matthew]

* Title: Mass on Cowback
* Author(s) name(s): Wilfred Watson
* ISBN (or ASIN): 0-919285-13-9
* Publisher: Longspoon Press
* Publication date: 1982
* Format: Softcover
* Description: Most of the poems in Mass on Cowback are to be found in a series of notebooks that Wilfred Watson has kept since June 1980, shortly after moving to Sandpiper Lagoon on Vancouver Island. The notebooks are on 9 X 12 inch sheets of construction paper, in fourteen colours, bound into green cardboard. The entries are usually headed by the time (often between 0530 and 0745 hrs) and the date; they frequently open by noting the tide, the weather, the birds, the seas. In a deliberate random manner, they record conversations with visitors, a continuing dialogue with the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, responses to reading and to CBC programs, dreams and analyses of them, daily walks around the spit. They include "fictions" of an allegorical and autobiographical tendency, ideas for and drafts of plays, excerpts from letters (often unsent?) to friends, pages from a 1980 calendar giving, each day, the etymology and definitions of a different word. They also include successive drafts of number and grid poems and felt pen drawings, collages, and pastels, usually on recurring themes. The drawings and poems in Mass on Cowback are taken from the first 22 of these notebooks. Wilfred Watson writes about his number grid poetry in this collections "Afterword: NGV as notation"; of the drawings, he simply observes, in the notebooks themselves, that "The technique of these drawings (à la Matisse) is to keep at them until something happens."
* Page count: 134
* Link to cover: https://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/...


In addition, the Wilfred Watson author page lists books that were not authored by Wilfred Watson. According to Wikipedia, the books authored by Wilfred Watson are as follows:
Friday's Child (1955)
Cockrow and the Gulls (1962)
The Trial of Corporal Adam (1963)
Wail for Two Pedestals (1964)
O Holy Ghost DIP YOUR FINGER IN THE BLOOD OF CANADA and write, I LOVE YOU (1967)
Let's murder Clytemnestra (1969)
From Cliche To Archetype (1970)
The Sorrowful Canadians and Other Poems (1972)
I Begin with Counting (1978)
Mass on Cowback (1982)
Gramsci X 3 (1983)
Poems: Collected, Unpublished, New & Poems: Collected, Unpublished, New (same books) (1986)
The Woman Taken in Adultery (1987)
Plays at the Iron Bridge or the Autobiography of Tom Horror (1989)
The Baie Comeau Angel, And Other Stories (1993)

[Razan]

Working on
Added the first book and moved all of his books here
Wilfred Watson

[Matthew]

Thank you!

[Matthew]

I don't mean to nitpick, but you appear to have missed the cover of Mass on Cowback

[Abcdarian]

Added cover and some author information on his profile.

Edit: After checking the other Wilfred Watson books, they all belonged to other authors. Moved them and moved "our" Wilfred back to the single space profile.

[Matthew]

Perfect! Thank you very much!!