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The poems in this book, one to a page, were made from collages of letraset. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is housed in a brown paper portfolio with "House Press" and its logo silkscreened onto it along four other prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page reproduces one of Beaulieu's letraset collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page reproduces one of Beaulieu's letraset collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Beaulieu made this book by tracing a line to each letter of Abbott's book "Flatland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In the afterward, Marjorie Perloff refers to E.A. Abbot's "Flatland, originally published in 1884 and reprinted by Princeton University Press in 1991. The Victorian Abbot invents a two-dimentional universe inhabited entirely by polygons. beaulieu's writing-through of this whimsical tale immediately brings to mind Tom Phillips's 'A Humument', but there is, in fact, little similarity between the two texts. For whereas Phillips's treated book foregrounds and reframes particular passages in his source text, W.H. Mallock's 'A Human Document', producing delicious parodies, cartoon narratives, double entendres and sexual punning, beaulieu's 'Flatland' contains no words whatsoever - indeed, not even the letters of the alphabet, much less ideograms or symbols." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In the afterward, Marjorie Perloff refers to E.A. Abbot's "Flatland, originally published in 1884 and reprinted by Princeton University Press in 1991. The Victorian Abbot invents a two-dimentional universe inhabited entirely by polygons. beaulieu's writing-through of this whimsical tale immediately brings to mind Tom Phillips's 'A Humument', but there is, in fact, little similarity between the two texts. For whereas Phillips's treated book foregrounds and reframes particular passages in his source text, W.H. Mallock's 'A Human Document', producing delicious parodies, cartoon narratives, double entendres and sexual punning, beaulieu's 'Flatland' contains no words whatsoever - indeed, not even the letters of the alphabet, much less ideograms or symbols." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Beaulieu comments: an afterword after words: notes towards a concrete poetic.Despite over a century of poetic innovation since Stephane Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des Jamais n'Abolira le Hasard" (1896) & almost 50 years since the publication of Eugen Gomringer's manifesto "Concrete Poetry" (1956), there is still no accepted critical vocabulary for concrete poetry. Concrete poetry is often contextualized historically & is categorized as a subgenre of radicalized praxis from its predominantly modernist period in the 1950s through to the present. By reiterating this historical precedent -- a stridently modernist activity -- criticism on concrete poetry more often than not reifies the idea that this form is still in its infancy, requiring a citation of poetic precedent in order to justify its existence. Brion Gysin remarked that "writing is fifty years behind painting," an assertionevident in the cultural & critical reception for concrete poetry. Readings based upon...

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The image depicts a man hanging a framed picture of an English and made-up (or a dialect) text from a book. This work is also designated Content Vol.1 No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated house press extra XI. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.