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This issue includes particularly good examples of typewritten concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This issue Includes concrete poetic broadsides by Ivy Sky Rutzky, "Blade Rein," and several by Haig & Regina Shekerjian that were acquired as seperate items by the Sackner Archive. Ann Noel [Williams] contributed a positive/negative reversal of the characteristics of letters poem, recto-verso, in a style after another example held by the Sackner Archive which begins, "After you have selected..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dana Atchley's "Notebook 1," an Assembling, was published in March 1970 about the same time as Assembling No.1. Ed Ruscha contributed a piece entitled, "Chocolate" that consists of the word "Chocolate" printed on one page and a hand applied chocolate smear on the following sheet. This is the first periodical to utilize the term, "Assembling." Contemporary Assembling magazines arouse from the topology of correspondence art. As common reference points for its geographically dispersed participants, they functioned as alternative spaces for exhibiting work, places where invitations for projects could be broadcast and coupled with the growing practice of listing contributor's addresses, initiators of community building. Equally important, they provided correspondence art with an image of itself, a momentary snapshot that illuminated the scope and breadth of its activities. Self-published in small print runs, utilizing available print technologies, these periodicals were distributed...