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This book has a very extensive bibliography on the Brazilian avant garde in the early 20th century. Unfortunately, there are scant examples provided of the poetry of this period. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book has a very extensive bibliography on the Portuguese avant garde of the early 20th century. Most of the essays deal with writers associated with the periodical Orpheu. Unfortunately, there are no examples provided on the poetry of this period. -- 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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This book consists of critical essays about Haroldo de Campos. It includes a postscript section on his death (1929-2003). Marjorie Perloff contributed an essay "Concrete Prose in the Nineties: Haroldo de Campos Galaxias and After" and interviewed both Haroldo and Augusto de Campos in "Brazilian Concrete Poetry: How It Looks Today." Willard Bohn wrote about "Concrete Poetry at the Crossroads," an intelligent critique of specific concrete poems by de Campos and contemporaries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.