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This booklet was a component of Birney's "pnomes jukollages and other stunzas" (Gronk Series 4 No.3), a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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curry traces the development of concrete and visual poetry in Toronto for an essay in Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly Vol.9 No.3-4, 1987, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. He lists Earle Birney's book entitled pnomes jukollages and other stunzas 1969, as the first concrete poetry by a main stream Canadian poet. He comments that bp Nichol's 1st book, Cycles etc., 7 Flowers Press, were chant structures that relied heavily on visual sonic similarities between words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is about how language deals with the non-verbal and about linguistic resposes to painting. Scobie writes that the unity in this book lies "in its relation to a central complex of ideas - the interaction between language and painting: the specific case of Cubism; the extension of Cubism into Concrete Poetry." Scobie provides an excellent background of Cubism's beginnings with emphasis on the roles of Apollinaire and Daniel Kahnwieler, the art dealer. He discusses the placing of fragmented words into Cubist paintings as word-play and puns.In his chapter on concrete poetry, Scobie "attempts to situate the international movement of the 1950's and 1960's within larger cultural tendencies, such as the transition from modernism to post modernism," and he reviews the collaboration between bp Nichol, the Canadian poet and Barbara Caruso, the Canadian artist. In the following chapter, Scobie deals with sound and visual poetry and concludes this section with an analyses of the...

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This work was designed by bp Nichol except for one piece by Andrew Suknaski. Two copies have the printed envelope intact, in another copy, the envelope is frayed, and in the remaining copy, the envelope is absent. The actual edition size was probably 300 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Has extensive listing of books by bp Nichol. The author in this listing is Nelson Ball, Bookseller but William Nelson is also cited since other catalogues released by Ball are listed under the Nelson's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Karis Shearer contributed an essay dealing with Imago, a small press magazine edited by Bowering and its influence on the Canadian long poem. The Sackner Archive holds five of the 20 issues of this periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a critical introduction to the work of eight contemporary Canadian poets, detailed interviews, and examples of their work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a critical introduction to the work of eight contemporary Canadian poets, detailed interviews, and examples of their work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. The Sackners purchased two letters by bill bissett at this auction., -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue features typewriter and calligraphic concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.