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Deals with an academic course in which the participating poets taught students; this catalogue prints representative concrete poems and supporting texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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DeCampos provides a brief discussion of his first meeting with Gomringer in his first communication with Houedard. He thanks Houedard for sending him typogrammes..."very interesting as studies of form though I personally prefer always to use the semantical element." States that both Gomringer and his group began from the same starting point, i.e., Mallarme's the throw of the dice, "the threshold of new poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Haroldo De Campos writes that he has just finished his concrete poems for the collection "koncrete poesie/poesia concreta" and is sending them to Gomringer. These poems were never published and were acquired in manuscript form by the Sackner Archive directly from Gomringer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book, "Pro Eto" by Mayakowsky, held by the Sackner Archive, is reproduced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The booklet consists of the complete poem Un Coup de Des in French; its translation into Portuguese appears in the book. This is the first edition; the second edition appeared in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the 3rd edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes translations of Ezra Pound's Cantos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a profusely illustrated book about the artistic scene in Brazil with particular emphasis on the 1960s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This retrospective exhibition was organized by Sonia Salzstein. The catalogue includes seven in-depth essays including an interview with Haroldo de Campos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several listings in this Catalog refer to the Sackner Archive catalog of 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazzon.com: This is the first full-scale English translation of one of Brazil's-and the world's-most influential avant-garde literary voices. A generous introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. As a poet and as a cofounder of the renowned group Noigandres, Haroldo de Campos has made a unique and substantial contribution to the theory and practice of experimental writing, particularly the form known as concrete poetry, and to the Latin American avant-garde as a whole. These contributions, acclaimed worldwide by figures such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Octavio Paz, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, can be observed unfolding here, first in poetry selections ranging from de Campos' early work before concretism through his most recent production; then in theoretical...

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Cluver analyzes Ivo Vroom's "Homage to Mondrian," with respect to the painting "Victory Boogie-Woogie," including the way that typewriter poetry reproduces the features of the painting. Cluver also compares Haroldo DeCampos' type Concrete Poem "branco branco..." to Mondrian's "Composition with Red and Black" of 1936. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.