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Huth provides a review of all the presentations at the 2nd Avant Garde Writing Symposium held at the Ohio State Libraries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes a review by Tracy Aollinger Turner of "An American Avant Garde: Second Wave" curated and conceived by John M. Bennett in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Ohio State University. Ruth and Marvin Sackner attended the exhibition and Marvin delivered the keynote address at the poetry symposium. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes a lengthy interview with the Fluxus artist, Jeff Perkins. The latter collaborated with Guy de Cointet in performances in Los Angeles. Marvin Sackner is mentioned as giving a lecture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia for the 10th anniversary of the master of fine arts in book arts and printmaking program. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Marvin Sackner wrote the essay for this catalogue, entitled "Introduction to WordSeen Exhibition." To begin, I must declare a conflict of interest in writing this introduction. Such a statement is required when a physician presents a paper to a scientific audience while having ownership in a company or being paid for conducting studies on medical devices or drugs related to his lecture. Since I am a physician and my wife Ruth and I own works by most of the artist/poets in this exhibition, I wish to be in front with this declaration. Nevertheless, I believe that I can be objective in my views since the works in this exhibition must stand visual relevance by attendees to this exhibition regardless of what I say just like medical studies must stand the test of reproducibility by other investigators. I hope you get the point about my opinions on conflict of interest. In this introduction to the exhibition, I shall comment on the differences between concrete and visual poetry as well as...