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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1819-08-01 - 1891-09-28

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Nuspeak 8 / Morgan, Edwin; Carroll L; Joyce J; Ionesco E; Kerouac J; Melville H., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54377-55191
Scope and Contents The sentences of this poem are appropriated from the texts of famous authors who are credited on the back of the folder. William Allen: Folded publication with an enigmatic 'punctuation' design, of an exclamation mark, a question mark, a comma and a full stop, printed on the cover in black on white stock; contains four loose leaf sheets slipped inside, printed in a variety of colours on cream stock, with a poem on each page dedicated to one of these grammatical symbols: from each 'mark' the words - plagiarized from various canonical texts - spiral outwards, thereby creating a visual poem of dispersed and fragmentary text. The colophon has been printed on the back of the folding cover, which includes linear transcriptions of each of the poems; such as in "!": 'you're nothing but a pack of cards: Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland /goats and monkeys: Shakespeare, Othello / oh that those lips had language: William Cowper, 'On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk.' --...
Dates: 1973