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"Why have we kept our own names? Out of habit, purely out of habit. To make ourselves unrecognizable in turn. To render imperceptible, not ourselves, but what makes us act, feel, and think. Also because it's nice to talk like everybody else, to say the sun rises, when everybody knows it's only a matter of speaking. To reach, not the point where one no longer says I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance
whether one says I. We are no longer ourselves. Each will know his own. We have been aided, inspired, multiplied." - Deleuze/Guattari |
Jay MillAr was born in Edmonton in 1971 in the middle of the greatest cold snap the country has ever seen. Growing up in London, Ontario he made his way through the many parks and malls to be found there until the time was ripe for his departure. He has suffered through various forms of education, but would not hold them up as reference.
For the Landscape, and its Time, this is the true mentor, & we should take care to be alive within that space. How else shall we ever hope to discover the geography of the imagination?He presently lives, writes, artworks & publishes (under the BookThug imprint) in the West end of Toronto (nice & close to the lake) with Hazel, their son Reid, & three cats. For the past six years he has held the position of writer-in-residence in a wood-lot located between the seventh & eighth concessions of Tilbury Ontario from April to October. Most recently he has been studying the poetry of mushrooms, bees, & mice within that environment. One day he hopes to report his discoveries. For any information or to correspond, feel free to contact Jay at <bookthug@hotmail.com> or 33 Webb Avenue, Toronto Ontario, M6P 1M4.
Other Books by Jay MillAr:
midsts
SUM LAKES
Writing Operates / Like a Toadstool / But Mushrooms
COAST ALL JOURN ALL
broadside
WRAP
Across South Western Ontario
HorseHair Jacket
Back Roads & Other Creatures
Notes Towards a Poem on Our Honeymoon
One Night
Box of Legs
Wrapping Paper on the Outskirts of December
OneWay
February Love Songs
J: A metric system
A Break in The Clouds
About The Ghosts of Jay MillAr:
This exquisite new 'fetish object' from CHBooks consists of five 32-page chapbooks 'ghost written' by Mr MillAr beautifully boxed in blue cloth by master binder Don Taylor. The cover art for each of the chapbooks is by Toronto painter Alex Cameron, who also contributed the whimsical portraits of the apocryphal poets. The edition is strictly limited to 20 copies, all five chapbooks are hand-sewn by the author, and each is signed and numbered by the author(s).
ISBN 1-55245-985-3
Coach House Books, 1998
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