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This is Vos' doctoral thesis. He mentions that the Sackner and Sohm Archives are excellent sources for reseach on the international concrete poetry movement. He critically reviews definitions of concrete and visual poetry proposed in the past. He relies heavily on the material written by Siegfried J. Schmidt and Nelson Goodman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is number 10 of Avant Garde Critical Studies and is based on the Yale Symphosophia held in April 1995 which was originally conceived to honor the Brazilian Concrete poet Haroldo de Campos on his 75th birthday. The symposium brought together over forty poets and performers and produced this volume of review and critical appraisal of an international perspective of avant garde poetic production. The volume includes the scholarly papers delivered at Yale and is divided into the following themes: Experimentation and Its Historical Moment; Experimentation in the Language Arts; Concrete and Neo-Concrete Poetry including Memoirs of Concrete; The Yale Symphosymposium on Contemporary Poetics and Concretism - A World View from the 1990s. The Sackners were invited to attend the symposium and were noted in the preface as follows: The Symposophia benefited from the perspectives of Ruth and Marvin Sackner, professional collectors representing the most extensive and complete archive of...

Scope and Contents This book is number 10 of Avant Garde Critical Studies and is based on the Yale Symphosophia held in April 1995 which was originally conceived to honor the Brazilian Concrete poet Haroldo de Campos on his 75th birthday. The symposium brought together over forty poets and performers and produced this volume of review and critical appraisal of an international perspective of avant garde poetic production. The volume includes the scholarly papers delivered at Yale and is divided into the following themes: Experimentation and Its Historical Moment; Experimentation in the Language Arts; Concrete and Neo-Concrete Poetry including Memoirs of Concrete; The Yale Symphosymposium on Contemporary Poetics and Concretism - A World View from the 1990s. The Sackners were invited to attend the symposium and were noted in the preface as follows: The Symposophia benefited from the perspectives of Ruth and Marvin Sackner, professional collectors representing the most extensive and complete archive of...

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Several comparisons to Sackner Archive are made by Vos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this article, Vos states that he is a follower of the linguistic theories of Nelson Goodman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.