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A collaborative poem printed to celebrate the poets' participation in a conference on contemporary literature, March 6, 1999 at the University of Alabama. Marvin Sackner was invited to speak at this conference. Ginger Berry, the wife of Jon Berry, Jake Berry's sister-in-law printed the broadside. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The recording includes Marvin Sackner's unedited talk at this conference. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is structured with traditional poetry comprising the front half of the book and language poetry begining from the back of the book, comprising the second half of the book. Susan Bee designed the book and contributed a painting for the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem was written by Lazer in May 1993 while on a three week cultural exchange program to China. The poem consists of three sections and each section contains nine stanzas of nine sentences each. Lazer writes that his "interest in sentence-based poetic compositions derives from reading of the work of Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, and Gertrude Stein." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On pages 245-253, Lazer analyzes the poetry of Jake Berry and mentions that the original manuscripts of Brambu Drezi are held by the Sackner Archive. Arch Llewellyn reviews this book on Amazon.com: "Lyric & Spirit presents a measured, thoughtful, even courtly case for the sophisticated interplay of musicality and form in the woollier manifestations of lyric since the Sixties. The book collects 12 years of essays, and in places the dating shows--apex of the M is still a hot topic, and the musical canon Lazer advances (Monk, Coltrane, Cage) is already pretty canonical. Lazer has a sharp, sympathetic eye for the poetic outliers of his generation, and the attention he brings to the poems he considers exemplify the kind of intent listening and open-minded "habitation" in the fractured, quickened musics of the post-Creeley lyric that the best contemporary work requires. A great book for anyone "on the fence" about the pleasures of experimental U.S. poetry, or curious to know why the...

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The book was made by Bruggeman based on poems by Lazer. The poems are illustrated with drawings of repetitive events, the electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, an experimental music score, sine waves, and graphic solutions to mathematical equations. The poems on one side of the book are set in readable type, the poems on the verso are set in illegible smudged type. The compact disc is a recording of the author reading and performing his poems with The Alabama Poetry Ensemble. Jake Berry made the recording. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The manuscripts provide examples of Che Qianzi's concrete poetry along with English translation of five of the pages. These poems are among the few in Chinese in the Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consits of essays from the Eleventh Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.