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According to an email communication from Achleitner, "The "o-i-studie" is a minimalized script of a film in which the sign 0 is transformed into either the number "0" (zero) or the letter "o" depending on the surrounding signs or visual materials. The 0 may even remain a neutral ornamental sign. In the course of my "o-i-Studie" it is shown how the neutral sign is transformed into the letter 0." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dencker has compiled a tour de force of writings, references and examples of visible language from prehistory to the present. It is accompanied by extensive footnotes of documentation asnd references. Although the text is written in German, the images still guide the reader as to the cultural impact of his well-chosen examples. He has described the writings of the most important world-wide individuals in this field while featuring German speaking writers. Omissions of influential American poets/artists include d.a. levy, John Giorno, Barbara Kruger and Paul Laffoly. The index in this book lists the birth and death dates for several individuals. Several works held by the Sackner Archive are reproduced in the book. These include among others Charles Cameron's poem for rose-marie cahc (1965) depicted in Experiencias No.2 (1975); Eino Ruutsalo's story board for the film, "ABC," (1967) [different original story board for same film held by Sackner Archive]; Konrad Balder Schauffelin's...

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Both copies are missing pages 80-82 and 88-92 that do not appear to have been torn ou tof the catalogue.The missing poems are those by Jandl, Joshi, Katuje, Kolar and Kriwet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The historic introduction of Jacques Donguy deals with the experiences of concrete poetry since 1953 beginning with Gomringer and the de Campos brothers up to contemporary times. The anthology follows an international bibliography, constructing the first panorama of this art of textual, sound and visual experimentation. The origin of the Sackner Archive is described as follows: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry of Miami in the United States began in 1975, following their discovery of the work of Tom Phillips. They became interested at first in the Russian Avant Garde, then in 1979, they discovered the Anthology of Concrete Poetry of Emmett Williams. Departing from there, Marvin Sackner has not stopped acquiring books and works of poets included in this anthology. This archive has given a place for exhibitions and may be compared to the Jean Brown Archives, purchased in 1986 by the Getty, and to the Hans Sohm Archives, now in the Stuttgart Museum....

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This manuscript includes a letter from Achleitner to Gomringer concerning publication. Gomringer's typed note states that the manuscript was intended for inclusion in "Konkrete Poesie - Poesie Concreta" but was never published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Eter Panji runs the Visual World Poetry press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first of Heimrad Backer's books to appear in English, transcript is an experimental Austrian writer's literary confrontation with the Holocaust. transcript is a disturbing document. Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad Backer presents quotations from the Holocaust's planners, perpetrators, and victims. The book offers a startling collection of documents that confront us with details from the bureaucratic world of the Nazis and the intimate worlds they destroyed. Backer's sources range from victims' letters and medical charts to train schedules and the telephone records of Auschwitz. His transcriptions and reworkings of these sources serve as a reminder that everything about the Shoah was spoken about in great detail, from the most banal to the most monstrous. transcript shows us that the Holocaust was not "unspeakable," but was an eminently describable and described act spoken about by thousands of people concerned with the precision and even the...

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This book includes a bibliography of 2099 sources which at the end of the list, Kessler concludes with "to be continued." However, the latter never happened!This book is also designated Band 30 od Deutsche Studien -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Although this international exhibition was designated as visual poetry, all the examples depicted in the catalogue are concrete poems. Frederick Heckmanns and Peter Weiermair provided introductory essays to the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.