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Solt analyzes Gomringer's concrete poem, "ping pong" in depth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This performance video is the reading of nine poems from Emmett Williams' "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Using a musical background, and interpretive photography, the emphasis is on the visual aspect of the words and not on the linguistic. The film was donated to the Anthology Film Archives and transferred to DVD in 2006. According to 2006 media standards, the film should be considered quaint, historic and dated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This performance video is the reading of nine poems from Emmett Williams' "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Using a musical background, and interpretive photography, the emphasis is on the visual aspect of the words and not on the linguistic. The film was donated to the Anthology Film Archives and transferred to DVD in 2006. According to 2006 media standards, the film should be considered quaint, historic and dated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This performance video is the reading of nine poems from Emmett Williams' "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Using a musical background, and interpretive photography, the emphasis is on the visual aspect of the words and not on the linguistic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing. In the beginning of this book, traces the poets of concrete poetry country by country as follows: Switzerland, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, japan, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Spain, Scotland, England, Canada, and United States. This is followed by a section dealing with manifestos by Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Max Bense, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Henri Chopin, Paul De Vree, Jonathan Williams, and Ian Haimilton Finlay. The next section consists of concrete poems from from poets worldwide. Obituary: Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic, By Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer, June 29, 2007 Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as "Forsythia," a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita after...

Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing. In the beginning of this book, traces the poets of concrete poetry country by country as follows: Switzerland, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, japan, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Spain, Scotland, England, Canada, and United States. This is followed by a section dealing with manifestos by Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Max Bense, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Henri Chopin, Paul De Vree, Jonathan Williams, and Ian Haimilton Finlay. The next section consists of concrete poems from from poets worldwide. Obituary: Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic, By Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer, June 29, 2007 Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as "Forsythia," a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita after...

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Cover poem depicts a minimalist letter poem by Aram Saroyan. The dupicate does not have the 5 loose sheets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was designed and printed from linecuts by John Dearstyne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each print depicts a concrete poem that depicts a flower silkscreen by Loyd Olcutt from Solt's original calligraphic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each print depicts a concrete poem that depicts a flower silkscreen by Loyd Olcutt from Solt's original calligraphic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Claus Cluver provides an introduction that describes the international Concrete Poetry movement. The program for exhibition, film, graphic art and musical performances is presented. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cluver presents definitions of Concrete Poetry and its controversies. Robert Indiana's "LOVE" works and e.e. cummings poem "brIght" are analyzed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cluver presents definitions of Concrete Poetry and its controversies. Robert Indiana's "LOVE" works and e.e. cummings poem "brIght" are analyzed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue has a lengthy annotation to Gertrude Stein's "Dix Portraits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Solt introduces the two concrete poems by stating that the code poems are derived from the universal language of signs and symbols that have been used from ancient times to the present as taken from the subjects of the alphabet, astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, commerce, engineering, mathematics, medicine, music, physics, punctuation, runes, zoology, etc. She provides a key to the ideograms that render the rebus to be deciphered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Solt introduces the two concrete poems by stating that the code poems are derived from the universal language of signs and symbols that have been used from ancient times to the present as taken from the subjects of the alphabet, astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, commerce, engineering, mathematics, medicine, music, physics, punctuation, runes, zoology, etc. She provides a key to the ideograms that render the rebus to be deciphered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.