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The text and images are printed as dark grays or blacks on black such that their reading is made difficult. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes several reprinted dictionary definitions of the words, "Concrete, Essay, Poem, and Poets." The back cover depicts a portrait of Wally Depew in Ben Day dots. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Artworks consist of photographs with appended texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the last of Kenneth Goldsmith's trilogy (The Weather, Traffic and Sports). It consists of Goldmith's parsing of the complete radio transcription of the longest nine inning major league baseball game on record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Goldsmith transcribes one year's worth of daily, sixty-second weather reports broadcast on a New York City AM radio station. The engravings have been described by Siena as visual algorithms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Book was printed from black & white photographs (rigidly planned) of poems that had already been made with wood block type. Further comments on this book can be found in Campbell's exhibition catalogue at the Yale Center for British Art (held by the Sackner Archive). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Grupo Texto Poetico is led by Bartolome Ferrando. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Publisher's Weekly reported the following. Conceptual artist, University of Pennsylvania instructor and WFMU radio host, Goldsmith has earned a great deal of attention for previous projects, among them Fidget (a real-time record of every motion he made in one day) and No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96 (a gorgeous 600-page cull of words ending in "r"). This elegant new volume continues his adventures in "extreme transcription": it consists entirely of radio weather forecasts, written down every day in the course of a year (2002--2003) and set as a book with no (or minimal) changes. Even the forecasters' hesitations and stutters show up in Goldsmith's text: "And what we have here tonight is, uh, brisk conditions under partly to mostly cloudy skies, uh, relatively mild, uh, temperatures, uh, staying above freezing all across the region tonight"; "well, we're continuing to watch snow sloat... spread slowly northward, uh, through New Jersey, uh, snowing around Trenton and, eh, Princeton...."...

Scope and Contents In this book, Ball indicates the following. "The smallest unit in this poem-sequence is a three-letter combination or "word" employing a central vowel and two different consonants. There are five words per line incorporating each of the five vowels. All the words in a section begin with the same consonant. There are 21 sections. All the words in a given line end with the same consonant. Each section has 20 lines because the consonant that begins each word in a section is not repeated at the ends of words within that section.The words in this poem are meant to be read aloud, line by line. Pronunciation is left to the reader. Readers will find various words and lines induce surprise or laughter because of the sounds involved and because of meanings and suggested meanings.While one reads, one may become uncertain about which words are in dictionaries or in use and which are not. Some words and non-words will sound like real words that have other spellings. Many non-words look and...

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The envelope is addressed to John Furnival. The messages are printed rather than calligraphed as in Ben's later works. The cards may have been published in 1963, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.