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Theme is small press work, specifically the periodicals published by the Canadian, Marshall Hryciuk, Nietzche's Brolly, magazines held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work is a typographic tour de force in which the accordion folds are placed such that the text can be unfolded as a horizontal continuum. The type is printed in red, black, blue, and orange highly saturated colors. The poem is based upon a performance piece by Duke that completed in 1973. The poem describes Dada in Zurich in 1916, in the winter in Berlin in 1918-1919 during the hardships of WWI, as Dada slept from 1923-1945, and in Australia in contemporaneous times. The Sackner copy is one of 25 in a portfolio; No.1 was in a designer binding, No.26-29 were unbound, and 5 copies were hors commerce. Except for the title which is in the German language, the text is in English. The book was conceived and designed in a constructivist lay-out by Mike Hudson (who never met Duke according to a personal communication to the Sackners) and set in a wide range of lead and wood sans serif types by Jadwiga Jarvis. The portfolio has papercard inserts for two pamphlets on the inside front...

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One poem is printed on each of the pages except for a few pages with brief commentary.The following text is printed on the back cover. "Literature is the only artform whose organon is already symbolic. Concrete poetry has always been devoted to the breakdown of the assumed symbolism, either to reform a new one or to celebrate raw, lingual materiality for its own sake. While one branch seeks a new understanding of what was always there through this breakdown - most evident in 'found poetry' - and this is called the 'collective branch'; the other, the ideomorphic, seeks to forever push the process into fresh and singular dislocation. Here are three poets with the latter propensity: Haiku-focused LeRoy Gorman with his constuctivist tendencies, the more sculptural Daniel f. Bradley, minimalist panache in tow and cheek and the graphically ham-fisted Marshall Hryciuk, who feels positively didactic next to the other two." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This anthology includes examples of the traditional Japanese haiku poetry form, e.g., three unrhymed lines if five, seven, and three syllables, respectively. In addition, this definition has been broadened to consider unrhymed minimalist, concrete, and visual poems ouside of the traditional framework. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the 3rd edition of the book that was first published in 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This varient, one of seven copies has a different layout to its border lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author remarks that this book is to be considered the second volume of the No Holds Barred Project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author remarks that this book is to be considered the second volume of the No Holds Barred Project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.