Scope and Contents

Description of book from the inside dust jacket: "Liselotte Gumpel brings to her interpretation of these two strains of poetry a solid grounding in language and cultural history as well as fresh and unbiased perceptions about the poems themselves. She offers historical background, draws connections with literary concretism's antecedents in visual arts and music, and usefully applies the semiotics of Max Bense and C.S.Peirce in her descriptions of the "dicentic genres" of the East and the "rhematic connexes" of the West. Under the rubrics of teleological humanism and creative zest she explores the shaping traditions of the two movements. A chapter on significant anthologies from East and West Germany concludes her survey." The dust jacket depicts a mandala by Kriwet that Gumpel characterizes as a "Round Disc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This is an analysis of the themes, stylistic devices, and working methods of cummings' poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Exhibition was curated by Francis O. Mattson. The manuscripts, books and images are from the Berg Collection of the NYPL. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This essay is an excellent critique and analysis of selected poems that Grumman ties together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The book deals with the history and critical analysis of free verse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Subtitled "American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939." Includes a detailed description of Bob Brown and his book, "Readies" in the chapter, The Roving Eye. The Sackner Archive holds Readies - a gift of Eric Estorick. This edition is a reprinting of the book that was first published in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Kac comments on "Adrift," a holographic poem commissioned for the Sackner Archive. It is composed of 7 words that dissolve into space along the Z axis as the viewer reads them back and forth. The letters that make up the words are floating freely along the Z axis except for the word "breathe," which is somewhere integrated into the overall light field. This word blows life to the other words as its letters actually move away from their original position to dissolve again into the light field. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This is stored in cummings' box -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Traces the history of the Brazilian concrete poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This anthology deals with a critical analysis of the Objectivists poets, a designation that began with Louis Zukovsky in the 1930's.Paperbackbookshop: "Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status. Despite such status, however, the formal, intellectual, ideological, and ethical concerns of the Objectivist nexus have increasingly influenced poetry and poetics in the United States.Thus, argue editors Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain, the time has come for an anthology that unites essential works on Objectivist practices and presents Objectivist writing as an enlargement of the possibilities of poetry rather than as a determinable and definable literary movement. The...

Scope and Contents

Coblentz expresses highly negative feelings about contemorary poets writing experimental and concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.