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Dialecty, conceived by Maria Fusco with The Common Guild, considers the uses of vernacular forms of speech and writing, exploring how dialect words, grammar and syntax challenge and improve traditional orthodoxies of critical writing. All six titles are available as a boxed edition: 'New Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border', by Harry Josephine Giles & Martin O'Leary; 'Skrubolz Garbillkore', by Robert Herbert McClean; 'It Disappears In Blue and Red and Gold', by Helen Nisbet; 'Thresholds: A Prosody of Citizenship', by Lisa Robertson; 'Enn Gramaten' by Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams; 'Notes on Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer', by Adam Pendleton.--Book Works website.