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This book consists of 29 essays of writings by the Avant Garde in America. Kostelanetz mentions "Seatbelt, Seatbelt" by Amirkhanian and notes that it never has been commercially recorded. He includes essays on the work of Michael Joseph Phillips and Harry Polkinhorn. Kostelanetz raves about the esthetics of Peter Rose's film, "Pressures of the Text (1983), a work held by the Sackner Archive. He writes a complementary essay on Kenneth Burke and illustrates it with a concrete poetic "flowerisches." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a reprint of an article on the contemporaneous state of concrete poetry in the UK. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Subtitled "Prophecies, Poems & Loqueras for the end of the Century," Gomez-Pena writes about the interaction and space between the Mexican and American cultures using performance art, poetry, essays and dramas as his media. He is involved with the issues of immigration, racial violence, AIDS, political freedom and human rights. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page of this Gospel lectionary, currently in the Pierpont Morgan Library, was copied by scribes in the form of a cross. It is one of three manuscripts made in Constantinople around the middle of the twelth century and the only one that contains narrative illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This anthology deals with a critical analysis of the Objectivists poets, a designation that began with Louis Zukovsky in the 1930's.Paperbackbookshop: "Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status. Despite such status, however, the formal, intellectual, ideological, and ethical concerns of the Objectivist nexus have increasingly influenced poetry and poetics in the United States.Thus, argue editors Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain, the time has come for an anthology that unites essential works on Objectivist practices and presents Objectivist writing as an enlargement of the possibilities of poetry rather than as a determinable and definable literary movement. The...

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This book is a collection of essays that Kostelanetz had previously published. An exposition of Dan Graham's schema is published on pages 143-145. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This anthology includes the works of a number of Scottish concrete poets who have not appeared in international anthologies in this field. The book also includes a section of commentaries on concrete poetry by Finlay, Gomringer, Riddell, Morgan, and Leonard. The final section of the book annotates selected poems. A compact disc in an insert in the rear dust jacket has interviews, poetry readings and sound poetry by various poets.Peter Manson's review: This exciting and compendious anthology collects an unprecedented variety of poems written by Scots from the Renaissance to the present day, though the great bulk of its contents was written in the last 40 years. Its remit is wide but definable: the poems all, in one way or another, place the emphasis on poetry as a pattern made from the various material aspects of language: language as sound, as letters carved or arranged on a page, as words or phrases to be varied or permuted. Historically, it ranges from Renaissance pattern-poems,...

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Lehmann cuts small capital letters of Spanish texts on paper and creates two and three dimensional unique works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Two pages of "A Humument" by Tom Phillips are reproduced in the section "Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated Tree: 4. In Hirschman's chapter, he presents a partial calligraphic rendition of his translation of Abulafia's poems -- 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.

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Cluver contributed an essay, "On Representation in Concrete and Semiotic Poetry." Eric Vos wrote about "Visual Literature and Semiotic Conventions." Eduardo Kac's wrote on "Holopoetry and Hyperpoetry." Charlotte Schoell-Glas contributed "The Medium is the Message: Ian Hamilton Finlay's Garden Little Sparta,"an essay that reviewed the political side of Finlay's work. David Scott described the postage stamps of Donald Evans in "Semiotics and Ideology in Mixed Messages: The Postage Stamp."Cluver focuses on the word, "Ekphrasis" defined by some as "the verbal representation of graphic representation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book presents colored reproductions of ancient visual games, optical illusions, rebuses, and puzzles along with explanations. Fanciful maps are depicted on pages 8, 10, 28, 29, 30, 32, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a montage of polemic and poetic fiction that calls into question the whole aim and structure of civilisation since the beginning of history, advocating a new, more creative and less frightened human mode of behaviour. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book records Aguiar's philosophy about concrete and performance poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author writes that this study was intended as an introduction to the work of Georges Perec and was designed to accompany a reading of his texts. Motte attempts to develop the outline of a post-modern literary career and to present a coherent exposition of Perec's poetic theory. He organized the study into the following chapters: formal constraint, autoreference, the game, description, the letter, dream and memory, and metaliterature. It includes 22 texts from 1965 to 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.