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This book "presents a comprehensive collection of the poet's handwritten, drawn, typographic and musical notation - works composed through nonintentional methods and which operate simultaneously as visual art, literature and scores for performance." The Steven Clay, Charlie Morrow, Anne Tardos, Kenneth Goldsmith, Julie Harrison, Susan Bee, Philip Gallo and Ian Tyson participated in its performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited and with an introduction by Douglas Messerli. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an uncorrected proof copy of the book that consists of a collection of previous published essays and interviews with Bernstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This anthology of poems for most part published in the 60s representing four present tendencies of poetry-Metapoetry: the Poetry of changes, Language Happenings (Concrete & Intermedia Poetry), Found Poetry & the 'Poetry of Survival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Andrews states that this book is divided into three sections. "The first, POSITION, sets out an overall personal perspective in a sequence of summary statements on poetics, ending with efforts to drive the question of meaning into a trajectory of social embodiment, dialog, & resistance. The second, VERB, offers a parallel record of interviews & symposia responses on a clutch of related themes, with an eye toward recharting the 'socially possible' through language & (more) radical praxis. And the third, BODY, makes a mosaic out of pieces on a variety of postwar English-language poetries & matters up for grabs in reading (& thus personally reconvening & rewriting) them." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is from the Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies series. "From the writing of seventeenth-centuy England to the avant-garde contemporary poetics of writers...McCaffery traces intersections along a broad conceptual plan that he terms he protosemantic, demonstrating how a reader must examine the interstices of each text, its paragrammic possibilities, and Deleuzean folds." McCaffery includes a section on "A Humument" by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jerome Rothenberg wrote the introduction and Mac Low supplied notes throughout the book that documented the varied works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jerome Rothenberg wrote the introduction and Mac Low supplied notes throughout the book that documented the varied works. The handwritten poem on the last two pages of the book, "Ruth and Marvin Sackner," spells out the namesby a diastatic-chance method by drawing words from this book by placement of the names. For example, the first line of the poem is righteous number out nothing is obtained as follows. Righteous (page 18), nUmber (page 21), ouT (page 20), notHing (page 8). The page numbers correspond toplaces of the required letters in the alphabet: the words in stanza 1, from "018"; 2 from "118," etc. Mac Low has also handwritten a list of errata near the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents According to the editors, "This is a historically based survey of what was happening in poets theatre from year to year in the four decades after World War II."In Michael McClure's play, the "Feast (1960)," made-up language is utilized. The players were members of the Semina group of writers. Hannah Weiner's play "RJ (Romeo & Juliet) (1966) employs one to three letter combinations of non-words adjacent to the character designations based upon a 19th century code "The International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations." These provide directions for performance. Bruce Andrews Song No.3 (1973) is a listing of phrases with directions without character designations.Amazon.com. Caroline Bergvall: Each play included here is a gauge of the contributions, some light-hearted, some light-headed, some gestural, some structural, that a great many influential American poets have made in the shadow of experimental theatre s heydays. The editors are themselves no strangers to the guilty...

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Internet: THE POLITICS OF POETIC FORM: POETRY AND PUBLIC POLICY is a series of essays from a discussion that occurred at the New School for Social Research in New York. The discussion mines the relationship between poetic composition and political expression. Poetry's relationship to public policy typically has a questionable margin of relation. Not only does this volume posit that poetry is a dynamic medium for the consideration of political ideas, it focuses on the ideological weight specific formal innovations bring to poetry. Some of the writers include Jerome Rothenberg, Ron Silliman, Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey and Charles Bernstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Introduction by Jackson MacLow, cover design by Paul Woodbine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Richard Morris reported a survey of 65 poet-editors of different schools of poetry and who were asked "the best poets currently writing in the English language." The results included among others Antin, Ashbery, Beckett, Berrigan, Blaser, Bukowski, Bunting, Cage, Codrescu, Coolidge, Corman, Corso, Davey, Dorn, Elmslie, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Giorno, Hirschman, Hollo, Houedard, Ronald Johnson, David Jones, Kryss, Lifshin, McClure, Mac Low, Meltzer, Merrill, Merwin, Meyer, Perchik, Plymell, Raworth, Rothenberg, Simic, Snodgrass, Charles Stein, Swenson, Tarn, Keith Waldrop, Emmet Williams, Jonathan Williams, Zulovsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: "This landmark collection brings together poetry, performance pieces, "traditional" verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson Mac Low's lifetime in art. The works span the years from 1937, beginning with "Thing of Beauty," his first poem, until his death in 2004 and demonstrate his extraordinary range as well as his unquenchable enthusiasm. Mac Low is widely acknowledged as one of the major figures in twentieth-century American poetry, with much of his work ranging into the spheres of music, dance, theater, performance, and the visual arts. Comparable in stature to such giants as Robert Creeley, John Ashbery, and Allen Ginsberg, Mac Low is often associated with composer John Cage, with whom he shared a delight in work derived from "chance operations." This volume, edited by Anne Tardos, his wife and frequent collaborator, offers a balanced arrangement of early, middle, and late work, designed to convey not just the range but also the progressions and...