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According to Dieter Schwarz, this work consists of biography, checklist of exhibitions and publications, artist's statement, illustrations, and an essay by the artist. It is dedicated to the "editors of "Contemporary Artists" (London: Macmillan 1983) who published a crippled version of this material." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips mentions that in 1975 he met the Sackners who founded the Archive holding most of his works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the second edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The first section of 62 pages consists of critical texts and b&w photographs documenting the exhibitions, periodicals of poesia visiva and Miccini's involvement in chronologic orderyear by year beginning from 1959 and ending in 2004. The photographs in the first section depict Miccini and the European visual poets of the day. The subsequent section depicts 256 reproductions of Miccini's concrete (the first two in 1962) and visual poems through 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Book contains a letter from Adolgiso to Paul Vangelisti requesting an English translation and an American publisher. Text consists of letters written by author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is biography, autobiography, literary criticism, history, reference, bibliography, fiction, non-fiction, anthology and case history. It is described as a "delicious, delightful labyrinth of alphabetically-arranged, mock-encyclopedia entries...which include generous selections of Federman's fiction, poetry, criticism, correspondence, and journal entries, dozens of photographs and documents, critical commentary, as well as a wide variety of other 'recycled' texts." The book contains a good deal of information on post-modernist fiction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes a complete catalogue of Carrion's works. The book contains an account of Carrion's life based upon interviews, photographs, newspaper clippings, letters and notes prepared by friends and family members. The Sackners first met Carrion in 1980 at his Other Books and So bookshop, Amsterdam and purchased a great deal of material then and during the years that the shop remained opened. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Stored in Robert Lax box.New York Times book review: To describe Robert Lax as a minimalist poet does scant justice to the reedlike shape of his "vertical" poems. A typical page in his most comprehensive book, "Poems (1962-1997)," might contain 20 words arranged in columnar form, a single syllable or punctuation mark to each line. One poem consists of "ro"‰/"‰ber"‰/"‰to" "” the name Lax was often called in his adopted country, Greece "” repeated three times, followed by "cries"‰/"‰the"‰/"‰roos"‰/"‰ter" with the final pair of syllables again thrice repeated.This can be curiously beguiling, over a brief period, but Lax's poetry has little of the visual playfulness or verbal ingenuity of like-minded members of that broad church known as concrete poetry, like Ian Hamilton Finlay, the Scottish poet and artist with whom Lax corresponded. In "Pure Act," Michael N. McGregor tells us more than once that Lax was mainly interested in writing for himself.McGregor, a professor at Portland...

Scope and Contents This collection was offered for sale by d.a.levy's nephew Jim Levey through Jeff Maser who compiled an exceptional annotated bibliography. Kent State University was the recipient of this collection.Maser contributed the introduction: Provenance: Material in this collection comes from three sources-1. items from d.a. levy's apartment, collected by his brother, James after d.a.'s death; 2. the collection of James Levey and his wife Charlene; and, 3. the collection of d.a.'s parents, Joseph J. and Carolyn Levey. These three collections were later united by levy's niece, Sandy (via inheritance) who then left it to her brother, Jim Levey, on behalf of whom the collection is being offered here.Condition: The condition of all items in the collection is uniformly very near fine or better, with almost every item being in fine condition, with no foxing, or stains, or insecting, or other problems associated with paper being stored for long periods of time in an often wet and cold climate....