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Contains essay by Vinholes on Brazilian and Japanese Concrete Poetry and a description of the contents of the Japanese periodical ASA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Deals with an academic course in which the participating poets taught students; this catalogue prints representative concrete poems and supporting texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazzon.com: This is the first full-scale English translation of one of Brazil's-and the world's-most influential avant-garde literary voices. A generous introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. As a poet and as a cofounder of the renowned group Noigandres, Haroldo de Campos has made a unique and substantial contribution to the theory and practice of experimental writing, particularly the form known as concrete poetry, and to the Latin American avant-garde as a whole. These contributions, acclaimed worldwide by figures such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Octavio Paz, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, can be observed unfolding here, first in poetry selections ranging from de Campos' early work before concretism through his most recent production; then in theoretical...

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Cluver analyzes Ivo Vroom's "Homage to Mondrian," with respect to the painting "Victory Boogie-Woogie," including the way that typewriter poetry reproduces the features of the painting. Cluver also compares Haroldo DeCampos' type Concrete Poem "branco branco..." to Mondrian's "Composition with Red and Black" of 1936. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In an introductory essay, Mary Ellen Solt traces concrete poetry historically and analyzes spcifically the work of Lax as related to Eugen Gomringer, Augusto De Campos and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Michael Basinski and Robert Bertholf provide an essay on "Zines," a generic term for a self-generated, cheaply produced (folded and stapled photocopied sheets), radically independent magazine. The exhibition included works of 167 international, concrete and visual poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A great deal of this PhD thesis is spent in arguments with David Seaman's views on concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.