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Scope and Contents Dr. Bohn writes that this "study seeks to analyze Guillaume Apollinaire's literary and artistic reception by members of the European and American avant-gardes during the early twentieth century...tracing the impact of Apollinaire's ideas as they radiated outward in increasingly larger circles from Paris...limiting the period to 1920 in Europe and 1930 in Latin America...and restricting the study to the avant garde of the major European and American nations."Bohn reviews the close relation and influence of Apollinaire to Mario de Zayas, his "calligrammes" or concrete poems as they would be denoted today, in the periodical, 291. Further, he points out that Apollinaire was first recognized in America because of 291. This book is heavily slanted to the influence of Apollinaire on Spanish and Latin American poets. Indeed, Bohn lucidly reviews the works of some obscure (to Americans) Latin American visual poets like the Mexican, Juan Tablada. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Ian Hamilton Finlay & The Wild Hawthorn Press 1958-1991 at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. This book was edited and designed by Graeme Murray. Edwin Morgan contributed a critical text about Finlay's early works including P.O.T.H., Canal Stripe 4, Ocean Stripe 3, Autumn Poem, and Ocean Stripe 5.The complete text is "Evening will sail They will sew the blue sail." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jeffrey Helterman edited this guide to the style, symbolism, and plot of Pynchon's masterful novel. a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a first edition of the book. The action takes place during the Battle of Britain during WWII. The writing is deeply symbolic and difficult to comprehend without aguidance. Helterman has written a guid book to the novel that is also held by the Sackner Archive. Pynchon deals with paranoia, tarot characters, experimental pyschology, Freudian theory, calculus, comic strip mythology, and eroticism, etc. in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is a pataphysical, political analysis of the typewriter keyboard as related to the sonnets of Shakespeare. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this issue deals with new feminist Canadian authors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of erotic stories from a magazine with the same title written during Victorian England. An introductory essay was written by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This edition includes an introduction to "The Tenant" by Thoms Ligotti, the Kafka-ish novel itself, four short stories and reproductions of nine surealistic drawing.J from NY Amazon.com: Roland Topor's "The Tenant" is nothing if not original; the author impresses his nightmarish worldview without leaving us a moment to draw breath, and as we read deeper and deeper into the tragic tale of M. Trelkovsky we can't help but share his vision, at least for the duration of the novel. I've long been a fan of the 1976 Roman Polanski film and often wondered why it was so obscure. After reading Topor's novel, I had to appreciate how beautifully Polanski translated this very complex and disturbing work to the screen. Comparing it with the movie you realize Polanski left out only what he absolutely had to, and that wasn't much. At the outset it seems that Trelkovsky is an average joe who lives in a world of material necessity, habitual discourtesy from others, and bullies. Actually I think this...