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This issue alost completely consists of conventional poetry. The visual art consists of colored photographs. Philip Lamatia contributed the sole shaped poem. Andy Warhol's poem 'From Cock' is a long homoerotic poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hirschman contributes a long critical essay on Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des" and its relationship to Pierre Boulez's "Third Piano Sonata." Hirschman points out that the study of "Un Coup de Des" inspired him to write "Interchange" about Los Angeles in which the pages can be interchanged. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Lists three typed and signed letters by Ian Hamilton Finlay that are dated 1981 priced at $375. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Catalog lists writers from Gadd to Gysin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Marcus Boon, who edited this book writes, Giorno's late-1960s poems see him expanding the use of found materials, including pornographic and countercultural texts, as well as the use of repetition. Indeed, poems like "Capsule," "Give It to Me, Baby," and "Johnny Guitar" are among the most rock 'n' roll poems ever written, every bit as psychedelic and confrontational as The Stooges or Jefferson Airplane, and probably just as much the product of a wide-ranging armory of pharmaceuticals, which, as Giorno has repeatedly insisted, have the potential to open and expand the mind and bring bliss. Balling Buddha, a multicolor confection printed on pages in the six colors of the rainbow, rather than traditional black on white, introduced Giorno's signature split lines running down the center of each page-as a way of both reproducing the multitracking used in his sound poems and perturbing the linear flow of text on the page. Giorno observes that the split line "breaks the lineal flow....

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Lines of several poems are illustrated by Wallace Berman, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, and Jean-Jacques Lebel. The covers were designed by Paul Vaughn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.