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This typing consists of a circle of red typed letters and several fragments of red typed lines. The background is blue and hazy. OM is typed in the center of the paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Camaeron describes this as "f 'cap in dsh hand, notes & correx for an article, presumably the ISIS piece." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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First printing. Bory's introduction traces the history of the concrete poetry movement and its aesthetic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Second printing. Bory's introduction traces the history of the concrete poetry movement and its aesthetic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited with an introductory essay by Bory, which traces the history of the Concrete Poetry movement and analyzes its aesthetic. Includes a short biography and diagram linking contemporary concrete and visual poetry to its antecedents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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First published by Renegade Press as Polluted Lake Series No.8, 1965. The poem fragments the word "waltz" on succeeding pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This typing consists of eighteen lines of typed purple o's on a background of red slash lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated Poets number fourteen. Contains reproductions of several typewriter poems of which the originals are held by the Sackner Archive, e.g., Sun Cloud Rain Land Fish (240663). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated Writers Forum Poets number fourteen. This is the first edition. Contains reproductions of several typewriter poems of which the originals are held by the Sackner Archive, e.g., Sun Cloud Rain Land Fish (240663). The typewriter poem whose image accompanies this record is highly atypical of Houedard's oeuvre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated Writers Forum Poets number fourteen. Contains reproductions of several typewriter poems of which the originals are held by the Sackner Archive, e.g., Sun Cloud Rain Land Fish (240663). This is a first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Frank Fricker provides an historical introduction of concrete poetry, optical, kinetic and phonic poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Cameron writes, "6pp green typescript of dsh version of opening of Protrepticus of Clement of Alexandia with annotations in brown type signed this version for cc." The book that dsh reviews is by Jeanine Miller: "The Vedas: Harmony, Meditation and Fulfilment" (London: Rider, May 1974) Wikipedia: This describers the first of the three surviving works of Clement of Alexandria, a Christian theologian of the 2nd century.The work is, as its title suggests, an exhortation to the pagans of Greece to adopt Christianity, and within it Clement demonstrates his extensive knowledge of pagan mythology and theology. It is chiefly important due to Clement's exposition of religion as an anthropological phenomenon. After a short philosophical discussion, it opens with a history of Greek religion in seven stages. Clement suggests that at first, men mistakenly believed the Sun, the Moon and other heavenly bodies to be gods. The next development was the worship of the products of agriculture, from...

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John Furnival and dom Silvester Houedard, the editors define this venture as follows. "typography - openings are constituted by poet/ typographer/ artist - openings are active poetry - openings make everybody make poetry - poetry means making poesis - a typographer thinks that the poem is the first of of the first things first." graphics - we aim to produce a series which is not a complete integration of graphics and text, i.e. not an illustrated poem or a captioned drawing but a picture/poem - in fact, we always start out with, and work from, the poem - the difficulty lies in maintaining the balance between text and drawing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The proof copy verso lacks information on poetry, graphics, typography, and printing contacts as on the distributed copy. On the verso of this pamphlet, Furnival writes, "Rough proof of propectus for OPENINGS PRESS, founded in 1964 by John Furnival + dom Silvester Houedard." They define this venture as follows. "typography - openings are constituted by poet/ typographer/ artist - openings are active poetry - openings make everybody make poetry - poetry means making poesis - a typographer thinks that the poem is the first of of the first things first." graphics - we aim to produce a series which is not a complete integration of graphics and text, i.e. not an illustrated poem or a captioned drawing but a picture/poem - in fact, we always start out with, and work from, the poem - the difficulty lies in maintaining the balance between text and drawing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The color of the inscription is a brownish-green. This is the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The color of the inscription is green. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.