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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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This is an outstanding compilation of Birney's concrete and visual poems. Several poems are written in the linguistic style used by bill bissett. According to Adjala Bookshop, Birney inscribed (dated 1970) this first edition of the book to Mary Lou Toms who was the founding editor of "Books in Canada." The inscription is in the form of a concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an outstanding compilation of Birney's concrete and visual poems. Several poems are written in the linguistic style used by bill bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of this book is presented as an interview of Birney. The is one concrete poem example in this book dealing with autobiography and critical analysis of poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A concrete poem is printed on the wax paper page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.