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The duplicate copy does not contain the letter from Molero-Prior. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cobbing discusses the early concrete poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Kenelm Cox, Dom Sylvester Houedard, and Tom Edmonds in depth. This essay is unbpubished. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book deals mainly with Fahlstrom's literary and poetic works. It includes a reprinting of his manifesto for Concrete Poetry ( 1953). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This essay was published in "The Times Literary Supplement" No.3,258 August 6 1964 in a slightly modified form from this manuscript. The Sackner Archive holds this issue of TLS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This was Included in the Grant U. Roman Archive. According to a note at the bottom, this poem was composed "after Eugen Gomringer's 'ping pong.'" Wikipedia: Robert Pinget (Geneva, July 19, 1919 "“ Tours, August 25, 1997) was a major avant-garde French writer, born in Switzerland, who wrote several novels and other prose pieces that drew comparison to Beckett and other major Modernist writers. He was also associated with the nouveau roman movement. Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge (27 March 1899 "“ 6 August 1988) was a French essayist and poet. Influenced by surrealism, he developed a form of prose poem, minutely examining everyday objects. He was the inaugural recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1974. P.O.T.H. 16 includes a poem by Ponge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ignacio Gomez de Liano contributes an essay "La nueva poesia y los problemas de la Estetica contemporanea." Maria Aurora Marques writes about "Poesia Experimental en Espana" and Maria Lluisa Borras describes "La Poesia Visual en Cataluna." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A specimen page mentions the following: "The enclosed plates are hand printed in editions ranging from 1 to 240... This magazine appears only in a continuing edition. Works run out, new ones are added. Ppress remains in a state of flux." The issues are unnumbered and to distinguish the two held by the Sackner Archive, this one is designated as black for color of the typeface on the envelope, the other as red for its typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a textbook for writing poems with an innovative approach to the subject.Eugene Gomringer's poem "blow show grow flow" is printed and described as a constellation but the poet's name is not mentioned. Also printed are ee cummings "grasshopper" and the shaped poem "The Altar" by George Herbert. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mentions support of Sackner Archive in producing "Adrift" a holographic poem composed of seven words that dissolve into space and into each other with viewing. The reading process takes place along the Z axis. The letters that form the words float irregularly along several Z axis except for the word "breathe" which is somewhere integrated into the overall field. This blows life into the other words as its letters move away from their original position to dissolve again in the light field. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In an introductory essay, Mary Ellen Solt traces concrete poetry historically and analyzes spcifically the work of Lax as related to Eugen Gomringer, Augusto De Campos and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Michael Basinski and Robert Bertholf provide an essay on "Zines," a generic term for a self-generated, cheaply produced (folded and stapled photocopied sheets), radically independent magazine. The exhibition included works of 167 international, concrete and visual poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Eugen Gomringer provided an introduction. One of the poems entitled "persilschein" that is depicted, the word is a German idiom meanung "Clean Bill of Health" The top line refers to the Nazi brown shirts who after WWII were denazified according to evidence present to the allies and now became "white shirts."Wikipedia: Kurt Adolf Mautz (* June 1st 1911 in Montigny-les-Metz , "  November 2000 in Wiesbaden ) was a German literary scholar and writer . He was the father of actor Rolf Mautz .Mautz studied German literature, philosophy and history, first from 1930 to 1933 in Frankfurt am Main, among others in the then little-known lecturer Theodor W. Adorno , from 1934 in Giessen at the Catholic priest Theodor Steinbuchel , the one there Concordat Chair for Philosophy held. "The Nazi seizure of power here seemed less noisy than being run in Frankfurt," Mautz wrote later in his novel The key Urfreund. "I ... took care about nothing but my dissertation." Mautz in 1936 with a study of Max...