The festival was organized by Fernando Aguiar "to present, for the first time in Portugal, recent words by a group of the most significant international avant-garde poets..to provide a widened vision of...poetry with experimental features." Essays on Visual, Concrete and Performance Poetry and Mail Art were contributed by De Melo e Castro, Aguiar, Bory, Heidsieck, Arias-Misson, Ferrando, Hatherly, Higgins, Kac, Olbrich, de Kroon, Miccini, Pimenta & Zink. 177 small mags and documents related to the theme are listed in the final section of this catalogue. The pages of this book have become unbound from the spine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A more definitive catalogue of this exhibition is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue records David Dellafiora's move to Australia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was cuurated by Giovanni Fontana. It also included sound poetry recordings curated by John Giorno, Paul Vangelista, Charles Amirkhanian, and J.Wellman. The front cover was done by Karl Kempton and the back cover by Richard Kostelanetz. Although the title of this exhibition indicates the work of 55 American poets, several are of different nationalities, e.g., Canadian, French, British and German. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was curated by Giovanni Fontana. It also included sound poetry recordings curated by John Giorno, Paul Vangelista, Charles Amirkhanian, and J.Wellman. The front cover was done by Karl Kempton. Although the title of this exhibition indicates that it featured the work of 55 American poets, several are of different nationalities, e.g., Canadian, French, British and German. The catalogue is identical to the catalogue for the Frosinone exhibition with the same title except for a 14 page insert printed on Kraft paper. The latter consists of brief essays by Minarelli, Giorno, Higgins, Wendt, Kostelanetz as well as statements by Helmes, Kempton, Essary, Kucharz, and Prost. The topics included text sound pieces by Americans, the Dial-A-Poem poets, intermedia, computer manipulations, holography, and personal statements about the artist's own work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Taken from the Archive of O!!Zone 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The soft cover book, Works, accompanying the found poems, consists of conventional poetry. The broadsides are concrete poems. Although the first 30 copies of this publication were signed, the lack of numbering and the dating with the year 1979 indicates that the signatures were written later than the year of publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The soft cover book, Works, that accompanies the found poems, consists of conventional poetry. The broadsides are concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.