Scope and Contents The subtitle of this book is "Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing." It is divided into four sections" Pre-faces; The Opening of the Field; The Book Is as Old as Fire & Water; and The Book to Come. Marjorie Perloff contributes an essay from "The Futurist Moment" in which she describes "La Prose du Transsiberien" by Cendrars and Delaunay. The book Includes two fold-out pages that reproduce this work as well as an English translation of the poem (the original of this book is held by the Sackner Archive).Gerald Janecek contributed an essay from "Kruchonykh and the Manuscript Books" describing Old Fashioned Love,' 'A Game in Hell and 'World Backwards.' Johanna Drucker wrote, "The Artist's Book as Idea and Form" in which she describes the artist's book as "the quintessential twentieth-century artform. Artists's books appear in every major movement in art and literature and have provided a unique means of realizing works within all of the many avant-garde,...

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This book deals with aspects of concrete poetry paying debt to Cobbing and other pioneers. Chris Jones' essay provides several definitions of concrete poetry, stating that "it is helpful to think of concrete poetry as being an umbrella term for those processes...who share a concern with text (words, letters, phonemes, signs) as their material." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The journal is the first periodical of ethnopoetics or tribal poetics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes a poem by e.e. cummings translated into Tlingit. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Published for the first international symposium of ethnopoetics at The Center for Twentieth Century Studies of The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, April 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an uncorrected proof copy of the book that consists of a collection of previous published essays and interviews with Bernstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This extensive poetry anthology has brief comments that accompany each poem. It includes an English translation of Cendrars and Delaunay's 'The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France,' a work held in the original by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This extensive poetry anthology has brief comments that accompany each poem. It includes an English translation of Cendrars and Delaunay's 'The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France,' a work held in the original by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover design depicts a page of Tom Phillips' A Humument. This extensive poetry anthology has brief comments that accompany some of the poems, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover design depicts a page of Tom Phillips' A Humument. There are brief comments that accompany some of the poems in this extensive poetry anthology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Kurt Schwitters has written, "I pasted words and sentences together into poems in such a way that their rhythmic composition created a kind of drawing. The other way around, I pasted together pictures and drawings containing sentences that demand to be read. I drove nails into pictures in such a way that besides the pictorial effect a plastic relief effect arose. I did this in order to erase the boundaries between the arts." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This volume is the first collection of Rothenberg's poetic writings and includes ideas and excerpts from his books and essays. Rothenberg indicates that Abulalfia (1240-c.1291) himself writes of the abstracting/spiritualizing process which he then employs & by which the world is apprehended as language/sound: "Know that the method of tseruf (the combination of letters) can be compared to music; for the ear hears sounds from various combinations,in accordance with the character of the melodu & the instrument. In touch with yogic currents fgrom the East, Abulafia's intention was mantric, but his practice of a systemic & concrete poetry also closely resembles the 20th century Lettrisme of Isidore Isou, the asymmetries & nuclei of Jackson Mac Low & the blues Kabbalah improvisions of Jack Hirschman, all of whom he may have influenced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jerome Rothenberg wrote the introduction and Mac Low supplied notes throughout the book that documented the varied works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jerome Rothenberg wrote the introduction and Mac Low supplied notes throughout the book that documented the varied works. The handwritten poem on the last two pages of the book, "Ruth and Marvin Sackner," spells out the namesby a diastatic-chance method by drawing words from this book by placement of the names. For example, the first line of the poem is righteous number out nothing is obtained as follows. Righteous (page 18), nUmber (page 21), ouT (page 20), notHing (page 8). The page numbers correspond toplaces of the required letters in the alphabet: the words in stanza 1, from "018"; 2 from "118," etc. Mac Low has also handwritten a list of errata near the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.