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This book is a compendium of Hirsal and Grogerova's typewriter poetry. The inscription was written to Eugen Gomringer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a compendium of Hirsal and Grogerova's typewriter poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The English translation of the title is "four poems." According to Sims Reed (Modern Books April 2011), Four visual poems by Josef Hirsal created using repetitive words, typographic motifs or repeated letters. Loose as issued in original publisher's black paper wrappers, typographic motif of Hirsal's initials in gilt and green to front wrapper. Rare samizdat collection of visual poems by the Czech poet Josef Hirsal.Josef Hirsal (1920 - 2003), renowned experimental Czech poet, Surrealist, childrens' book author, friend of artist and poet Jiri Kolar and co-signatory of Charta 77 published this short collection of innovative visual poems in 1965. The poems use repeated words to build up a visual and sonic matrix, on the page and the tongue. The first poem consists of a repeated series of words: 'bude je bylo' that gradually - through typographic manipulation - reverse into 'bylo je bude'. The second poem is a repeated grouping of consonants ('c', 'h', 'm', 'n', and 't') used to create...

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Almost all of the poems in this anthology were composed with a typewriterand only seven visual poems were reproduced. The original of Franz Mon's 'Sehgange' (1964) reproduced on page 221 is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this poem, first composed in 1962, depicts the Christian concept of Heaven and Hell from the blue sky (azur) to the bowels of the earth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem is based upon Dante's Divine Comedy. The Sackner Archive also holds the second version typed in English (1992) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This portfolio was published to accompany Hirsal and Gregorova's book of concrete poetry, job-boj, a work also held by the Sackner Archive. The print by Kolar depicts a two-headed silhouette of Hirsal and Gregorova on a background of collaged words and phrases. The texts are adapted fom contemporary, foreign, newspaper articles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Jakub Hanzi (internet): Jiri Valoch (1946-) theorist, art critic, columnist, exhibit curator, and conceptual artist. He is the creator of visual and conceptual poetry, photographic poetry and photographic concepts, text installations and conceptual drawings. Between 1965-1970 he studied German Language and Literature, Czech Language and Literature, and Aesthetics at the College of Philosophy (Philosophical Faculty) of Masaryk University in Brno. In the 1960s and 1970s he addressed the production of visual and conceptual poetry focused on linguistic introspection, text installations, and conceptual drawings, and events touching upon the field of body art, land art and conceptual photography. His poetic texts, bordering between word and image, gradually followed a more radical evolution. They began more to reflect his own language, work with texts becomes subordinate to a strict concept, and he returns to a traditionally-expressed, linear, poetic text: most often tied to the classic...

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This poem was first composed in 1962. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This exhibition aimed to document the aesthetic shift that took place in the 1960's and 70's in Czech concrete poetry, art, letters and images. Josef Hlavacek writes in his introduction, ''The relationship between the image and the letter could be called mutual initiation. It became evident that the letter as an object not only of literary but also of artistic interest has a long history with particular accents in classical antiquity, the era of the Baroque and the avant-garde of the 1910s and '20s...The experiment in poetry was brought about by what was essentially a direct reaction to the problematic line of civic poetry...[Then] attention became focused on the word as an independent phenomenon and language...A third stimulus stemmed from a strong interest in how art mediates information about the outer world through artistic signs, doing so in a much more direct way than the spoken or written word." The exhibition featured small magazines, exhibition catalogues and books of the...

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Consists of an anthology of the works by 12 Czechoslovakian concrete poets from the sixties and seventies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem is based upon a railway trip with spacing between lines suggesting distances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.