Everybody’s Martyrology

Everybody’s Martyrology  provides commentary and analysis for almost every page of bpNichol’s meandering nine-volume lifelong poem,  The Martyrology — a poetic pondering of the inevitable extinction of the human species. Taken together, it became one of the five longest canonical poems in English. Like Caroll Terrell’s  A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound  or George Butterick’s  A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson , Everybody’s Martyrology  will attrac