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This book includes 20 poems from "154 Forties," a series that Mac Low has been writing and revising since 1990. The cover was designed by Anne Tardos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Craig Morton Teicher Amazon.com: Charles Bernstein is not just a theorist of poetry but of language itself. The ideas guiding his creative work might be summarized, albeit reductively, like this: Words are meaningless in themselves, and find significance only when we agree upon a definition. Bernstein's poetry tends to draw attention to the slipperiness of words, and to reload them with new, and sometimes better, meanings. All the Whiskey in Heaven, his first book from a major publisher and required reading for poetry enthusiasts, selects from the dozens of works the author has written over the past 35 years. Don't look here for intensely felt personal recollections or anything referencing particular biography. Instead, you'll find verbal collages in many different forms. One of the foundational figures of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E movement, Bernstein likes to borrow from various sources"”political discourse, personal correspondence, mental-health literature and advertising"”and see what...

Scope and Contents Ivan Arguelles provided an introductory essay and Jim Leftwich an interview of Jake Berry dealing with the interpretation of this second in a series of epic poems. Both the manuscript of this poem and its first part are held by the Sackner Archive.Jack Foley on Alsop Review web site provided the following review: From virtually all perspective, early Greek philosopher to twentieth-century specialist, there is agreement that artistic creativity and inspiration involve, indeed require, a dipping into rational or irrational sources while maintaining ongoing contact with reality and "life at the surface." The degree to which individuals can, or desire to, "summon up the depths" is among the more fascinating individual differences. Many highly creative and accomplished writers, composers, and artists function essentially within the rational world, without losing access to their psychic "underground." Others, the subject of this book, are likewise privy to their unconscious streams of...

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Edited with notes and variants by Anthony Barnett this book is publsihed in association with Allardyce, Barnett Publishers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this issue is James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake." Libro d'artista in cui si riscontrano influenze teoriche e linguistiche di James Joyce, di cui Diacono aveva appena tradotto in italiano alcune pagine di Finnegans Wake (1961) Con quest'opera Diacono si manifesta come uno dei più fedeli e coerenti discepoli italiani di Joyce. According to a section entitled "segni," two pages of concrete poetry were composed 1959-60 and are depicted here intwo images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is structured with traditional poetry comprising the front half of the book and language poetry begining from the back of the book, comprising the second half of the book. Susan Bee designed the book and contributed a painting for the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poetry deals with a self-catharsis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.