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Designated Card Series No.28. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Designated minibooks number six. This is the fifth edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...

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Girlie poems are works or poems dedicated to 'girls' whose names, at the very least, have fascinated Cobbing. The poems are constructed as permutations, palindromes, and visual scores by overprinting. As noted by Griffiths, the simpler the score, the greater the performance potential because it allows Cobbing wider improvisation. The book reprints a large number of these poems. One copy of this book has an orange color and another a blue color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of the poems in this book have been published previously. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated fours number sixteen. The book may be read from either cover; it does not contain text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The images are enlarged finger prints arranged in a grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated fours number fifteen and is the first edition. Cover names are printed as lawrence cobton & bob upbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the 2nd edition of a book first published in 1971. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated fours twenty-five. Images relate to Niagara Falls and was composed as a performance piece for konkrete canticle/ -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The sound poems are read from abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated fours number fifteen. Cover names are printed as lawrence cobton & bob upbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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soma signifies 'society of mental awareness. It was instrumental in overturning the harsh penal penalty for possession of hashish in England in the 1970s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to Cobbing, this work refers to "random snippets from works in progress." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several of the poems were composed with the "cut-up" technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.