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Designated Writers Forum Pamphlet Three. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cobbing describes the history of contemporary sound poetry and the techniques utilized by the poets. He concludes "The very diversity of sound poetry is in line with its emphasis on the freedom of the individual and the withering of external authority, on man as a communal and social animal, on communication as a life-giving activity, things which in this bureaucratic and techncratic age we need constantly to remember. This is Cobbing's essay for the ground-breaking exhibition, "klankteksten ? konkrete poezie visuele tesksten - sound texts ? concrete poetry visual texts - akustiche texte ? konkrete poesie visuelle texte." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Reproductions of examples of concrete poetry; one copy printed on white and the other on yellow stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cobbing describes the history of contemporary sound poetry and the techniques utilized by the poets. He concludes "The very diversity of sound poetry is in line with its emphasis on the freedom of the individual and the withering of external authority, on man as a communal and social animal, on communication as a life-giving activity, things which in this bureaucratic and techncratic age we need constantly to remember." This is Cobbing's manuscript essay for the ground-breaking exhibition, "klankteksten ? konkrete poezie visuele tesksten - sound texts ? concrete poetry visual texts - akustiche texte ? konkrete poesie visuelle texte." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a poetry textbook for secondary schools with the following sections: Found Poems, Image Poems, Speaker Poems, Concrete Poems, and Magic Poems. It includes questions for the reader regarding these poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book, a festshrift to Jandl, is also designated Zirkular Sondernummer 6, July 1985. It is stored with the Jandl publications. The bibliography lists all of Jandl's publications and recordings along with a synopsis of reviews from critics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

Auction catalogue. Rolf Dittmar was a very famous collector of avant garde literature and poetry, artist books and magazines, and visual arts who lived in Wiesbaden Germany. He was a practicing attorney who enjoyed establishing collections on a specific theme, selling them and starting another collection thereafter. This auction catalogue is a copy of Hanns Sohm with his handwritten selections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.