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Cluver analyzes Ivo Vroom's "Homage to Mondrian," with respect to the painting "Victory Boogie-Woogie," including the way that typewriter poetry reproduces the features of the painting. Cluver also compares Haroldo DeCampos' type Concrete Poem "branco branco..." to Mondrian's "Composition with Red and Black" of 1936. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Book blurb: Pataphysics may be best known as the occupation of a murder victim in the Beatles' song, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". We learn that "Joan was quizzical studied pataphysical science in the home Late night all alone with a test tube oh, oh-oh-oh." Alfred Jarry, who probably founded the Dada movement as well as the Theater of the Absurd, invented the science of imaginary solutions around the close of the nineteenth century. Pataphysica collects the thoughts of contemporary pataphysicists, pataphysicians, and scholars. They awaken the discipline for our century while writing on subjects as diverse as the Theater of Pure Form, baseball, minute measurement, laughter, language, and the infinite sphere.This book references Davis Daniels' work at the Sackner web site. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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William Jeffett contributed a lenghy, enlightening essay entitled "Avant-Garde and Moderization" to this catalogue. Marvin Sackner was a co-speaker with Jeffett at the symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition," Tour de France/Florida" at the Frost Museum in January 2012 and Jeffetts donated this catalogue to the Sackner Archive. Of note is a photograph of Joan Rabascall's sculpture "Monument to Televison (1992) on page 80 of the essay. The Sackners agreed to lend this sculpture to the exhiibition but their professional art movers deemed it too fragile to travel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover and illustrations in the text were done by Tom Phillips. The book is an anthology of previously published poems, e.g., White Sun Black Sun, Between, Sightings & Further Sightings, Poland/1931, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This text describes the association of Thomson amd Stein in creating their opera "Four Saints in Three Acts," the first Modernist revolutionary work. The opera's success depended on a small group of Harvard graduates who shaped America's first museums of modern art and defined modern taste in the 1920's and 1930's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of the book is the opera by Stein and Thomson, "Four Saints in Three Acts." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Schwartzburg provides a very intelligent analysis of Tom Phillips' "A Humument" in Chapter 3. She mentions the following. Stanford's single copy of 'A Human Document' "has lain motionless on the shelves for so long that it has no circulation history prior to three times it was checked out since 1997, when the latest edition of 'A Humument" was taught in a graduate seminar. Phillips' very recovery of Mallock's text demonstrates its loss, for it is only being read now as an extension of 'A Humument.. It is entirely dependent on 'A Humument' - not prior to it." Three major sections of Schwartburg's book deal with works held by the Sackner Archive, Tom Phillips' "A Humument," Susan Barron's unique book, "Twisting Silence," and Ian Hamilton Finlay's "Two Poems." A great deal of research for this thesis was done by Schwartzberg in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this anthology, Rothenberg draws implicit attention to several individuals who composed concrete poems that andedated those of Gomringer and the Noigandres group such as Bob Brown, ee cummings, Marsden Hartley, and Kenneth Patchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this anthology, Rothenberg draws implicit attention to several individuals who composed concrete poems that andedated those of Gomringer and the Noigandres group such as Bob Brown, ee cummings, Marsden Hartley, and Kenneth Patchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing by Caruso depicts four tilted leaves arranged vertically over music staffs with numbers. The leaves are filled with calligraphic text. The poem by Diacono was printed letterpress. The cover was painted by Piero Varroni. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Gertrude Stein was one of America's most influencial writers and thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered by many to be a creator of modernism. This groundbreaking publication and accompanying exhibition present for the first time an in-depth portrait of Stein that knits together her many identities - literary celebrity, lifelong partner of Alice B. Toklas, arts networker whose famous friendships included some of the most prominent artists and writers of her time, Jewish American expatriate, and muse to artists of several generations. This project, 'Seeing Gerturde Stein: Five Stories,' details Stein's life and work as an artist and collector and places them in the larger context of her visual world for the first time. We are also introduced to Stein as a distinctive style-maker and as an expatriate American writer whose life intersected with that of internationally recognized artists and visual culture, from 1903, when she first arrived in Paris, until 1946, when she...

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This book consists of essays of critical texts. In an essay about the work of bill bissett, Beaulieu extols bissett's "what fuckan theory" as an early conceptual text but excoriates him for the repetive nature of his work and performances as the years progressed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an unpublished essay dealing with Copithorne's personal involvement in visual poetry -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: Stephen Scobie, poet, critic, professor, publisher (b at Carnoustie, Scot 31 Dec 1943). Typical of his 20 volumes of poetry are The Birken Tree (1973), The Rooms We Are (1974), A Grand Memory for Forgetting (1981) and Expecting Rain (1984), Remains (1990) and Slowly into Autumn (1995). In these, open verse forms with extensive historical and literary references commemorate, sometimes nostalgically, people and places. McAlmon's Chinese Opera (1980), dramatic monologues in the voice of Robert McAlmon, won Scobie a Governor General's Award. He published a second dramatic monologue in the voice of an historical figure, The Ballad of Isabel Gunn, in 1987. Dunino explores Scobie's Scots childhood through an intertextual invocation of Rilke's Duino Elegies; Scobie is here playing off George Bowering's earlier rewriting of Rilke in his Kerrisdale Elegies. He collaborates with Douglas Barbour in the sound-poetry duo "re:sounding," and co-authored with him "homolinguistic...

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Watson provides a history of the literary and artistic American Avant Garde of the early 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work includes an original drawing over a silkscreen text by Tom Phillips. Martine Saillard is the owner of Edition Traversiere. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.