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French Concrete Poetry / Seaman, David William ; Albert-Birot P ; Apollinaire G ; Blaine J ; Mallarme S ; Garnier P ; Garnier I ; Isou I ; Lemaitre M ; Marinetti FT ; Mon F ; Niikuni S ; Solt ME ; Williams E ; Theocritus ; Porphyrii PO ; Maurus H ; Fraenkel E ; Cangiullo F ; Picabia F ; VanDerLinde F ; Herbert G ; Angot R ; Sterne L ; Queneau R ; Rimbaud A ; Soffici A ; Motherwell R ; Picabia F ; Tzara T ; Etiemble R., 1970

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Identifier: CC-02898-2942

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Scope and Contents

This is a copy of Seaman's Ph.D dissertation thesis that was later revised and published in the Series "Studies in fine arts. The avant-garde" by UMI Research Press in 1981, a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. On pages 150-156, Seaman analyzes Rimbaud's "Voyelles." Seaman devotes Chapter V, pages 179-251, to Mallarme with particular attention to Un Coup de Des. Seaman provides an English translation of Tzara's recipe for making a dadaist poem in Breton's manifestos of Surrealism. Here Is Tzara's recipe:To make a dadaist poemTake a newspaper.Take a pair of scissors.Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.Cut out the article.Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.Shake it gently.Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.Copy conscientiously.The poem will be like you.And here you are a writer, Infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.The main element of such poetic composition Is chance; still, the poet can arrange the scraps a bit as they come out. Chapter IX , 427-507, deals with Pierre Garnier and Spatialism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1970

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book + pages (photocopied from microfilm) (522 pages)) : illustrations ; 21.7 x 16.5 x 4 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

ref shelf concrete poetry french

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Palo Alto, California : Stanford University; Ph.D. Thesis. Nationality of creator: American. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: RED.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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