Poetry. The publication of bill bissett's RUSH: WHAT FUCKAN THEORY; A STUDY UV LANGUAGE in 1972 firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out of print for 40 years--and reissued here complete with an interview with bissett about the book's creation and a critical afterword by derek beaulieu and Gregory Betts--RUSH embodies a collagist, multi-conscious approach to art that recognizes no division between the work and the world, the author and his sexuality, his breath, his influences; the theory and the practice. Arguing that "a new line has started," RUSH captures the urgency of a new model of production that resists the closure and mastery of any one mind. It is an elegant rejection of aesthetic ego and all presumptions of authority. RUSH: WHAT FUCKAN THEORY; A STUDY UV LANGUAGE is a vital, vocal protest against business as usual and the exploitation of the individual from one of Canada's most important avant-garde poets.