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Perhaps the best treatment accorded to the life and work of a concrete poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This printing of a Doctural thesis deals mainly with Swedish concrete poets, most notably Fahlstrom. Olsson visited the Sackner Archive in the early 2000s to scan material for this thesis. He is also one of the Co-Editors-In-Chief of Oei magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was the inspiration for the founding of the Sackner Archive and includes poems byh 70 poets.. Emmett Williams was born in 1925 and died in February 2007. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Two works for which the Sackner Archive holds the originals are resproduced in this book. e.g., Figueiredo's Solar III and Aguiar's Murmurios Acerca de um Soneto 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Archive of New Writing, as named by Carrega and supported by Della Grazia, opened October, 1989 and issued this catalogue. The Sackners are cited in Carrega's article "Why? Because?" (page 14); "I came to know Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, Marvin and Ruth Sackner, the most important world collectors of the verbo-visual experience." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The analysis of the poem is based upon the version printed in Solt's "Concrete Poetry: A World View," rather than its initial publication in Noigandres 5. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue was written and the exhibition curated by Marvin Sackner. The viewing took place over a five day period at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association in Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a major exhibition of concrete and visual poetry organized by Michael Glasmeier. Almost every classification of visual/verbal imagery was represented in this catalogue. This catalogue depicts 71 dom sylvester houedard, eight Ladislav Novak typewriter poems. This catalogue depicts images of works included in several Hansjorg Mayer portfolios of concrete poetry. It also depicts images from runs of periodicals such as Affiche, Futura, POTH, Rot, Revue Ou, Rhinozeros, etc. Most of the works in this exhibition are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is one of the most extensive collection of word-image material with emphasis on concrete poems ever commercially published. The text is brief, e.g., a preface by Jean-Francois Bory and a postface by Isabelle Maunet-Salliet. Each image is printed one to a page. Although the emphasis is on French poets, there are images from poets all over the world. Significant omissions that are bound to occur in such a large undertaking include among others d.a. levy, Dick Higgins, Dom Silvester Houedard, Steve McCaffery, bill bissett, Edgardo-Antonio Vigo, Leon Ferrari, Mira Schendel, Ana Hatherly, Herman de Vries, Ernesto M. de Melo e Castro, Ben, Herman Damen, Enzo Miglietta, Carlfriedrich Claus, Alan Riddell, and Rachid Koriachi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.3. Includes sections on definitions, historical statements & manifestos, as well as chronologies of concrete and sound poetry. The book was first compiled in 1971 to coincide with the Stedelijk Museum's exhibition "?Concrete Poetry" but funding could not be obtained for publication. Additions to the book were continued until its publication in 1978. This is the first edition. The chronolgy was written by Dom Sylvester Houedard, Jeremy Adler and Dick Higgins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is also designated Writers Forum Series Studies in Concrete Poetry Number 3. In addition to examples from international concrete poets, the anthology cites chronologies of visual poetry and sound poetry from 1700 BC to 1978. Includes sections on definitions, historical statements and manifestos, concrete aspects of poetry, sound poetry, semantic poetry, myths of concrete poetry. Examples of poems from about 350 authors are reproduced. This is the third printing of the first edition.This reprinting under guidance by William Cobbing, Bob Cobbing's grandso, has an added introduction -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is also designated Writers Forum Series Studies in Concrete Poetry Number 3. In addition to examples from international concrete poets, the anthology cites chronologies of visual poetry and sound poetry from 1700 BC to 1978. Includes sections on definitions, historical statements and manifestos, concrete aspects of poetry, sound poetry, semantic poetry, myths of concrete poetry. Examples of poems from about 350 authors are reproduced. This is the third printing of the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition included representative poems by contemporary Portugese poet/artists. Fernando Aguiar's drawing "Murmurios Acerca de um Soneto," Cesar Figueiredo's collages "Solar" and Alberto Pimenta's collages "Viagem Poetica" are reproduced in the catalogue. All the originals are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This Exhibition included representative poems by contemporary Portugese poet/artists. Fernando Aguiar's drawing "Murmurios Acerca de um Soneto," Cesar Figueiredo's collages "Solar" and Alberto Pimenta's collages "Viagem Poetica" are reproduced in the catalog. The originals are held by the Sackner Archive. The poster is an exhibition announcement. The pages have become detached from the glued binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing. In the beginning of this book, traces the poets of concrete poetry country by country as follows: Switzerland, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, japan, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Spain, Scotland, England, Canada, and United States. This is followed by a section dealing with manifestos by Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Max Bense, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Henri Chopin, Paul De Vree, Jonathan Williams, and Ian Haimilton Finlay. The next section consists of concrete poems from from poets worldwide. Obituary: Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic, By Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer, June 29, 2007 Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as "Forsythia," a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita after...

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The exhibition consisted of four sections: 1) Ray Johnson collages; 2) Michael Morris concrete/constructivist drawings; 3) international concrete poems and 4) film and tapes of sound poetry. Michael Rhodes traces the historic roots of concrete poetry from 1897 to 1964. Edwin Varney contributes an illustrated, critical essay defining concrete poetry that is expressed in concrete poetic terms. Ian Hamilton Finlay and Stephen Scobie collaborate with an essay on definitions of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bann discusses the history and development of the concrete poetry movement in this first broadly based collection of concrete poetry published in book form. Sections are devoted to Latin, Germanic and English poets. Particular attention is paid to pioneers such as Gomringer, the Brazilian Noigandres group and British poets Finlay and Morgan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.