Scope and Contents This book is described by Charles Bernstein as"The Borscht belt meets concept art in this delirious digest of obsessive gaiety, this useless collection of perishable information, this wily catalog of everyday life, this alphabetic bestiary of the ribs, joints, sinews, and bones of language's alluring lore. {This] could be the longest, and maybe the last, list poem of the 20th century. On the way, Goldsmith has reinvented prosody - conting by 1's 2's 3's, and up - as he inventories the raring rush of rippling, or is it ripping?, words: inchoate yet coalescing, a fractal romp on just this side of virtual reality." All the phrases end in sounds end in the sound R and are organized alphabetically by syllable-count beginning with A, aar, air and ending with a "7,228 syllable tour de force of astonishing proportions. But in the spirit of George Perec...Goldsmith uses these rules to expose the reader/listener/viewer to the marvels and vagaries of language in the late twentieth century....

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The book is bound into a folder in four sections so that the pages may be turned in random order thereby constantly changing the story. This format is the same as the booklets with spiral spines on all borders published by Kickshaws. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book was designed by the author and illustrated by William Strang. Set in and around Glasgow and the Mediterranean in the early 1880's, it describes the love lives of two Scottish doctors and a 25 year old woman who was created by one of them from human remains. The illustrations depict anatomic dissected parts of the body and portraits of individuals mentioned in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes two works of Achleitner, "o- i-studie"(1960) & "schwer schwerz" (1960), the manuscripts of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is semi-biographical novel of Johnson's mother. It was last novel written by Johnson who committed suicide shortly after its release. Michael Bakewell wrote an introductory essay that provides an explanation of the story. The shaped, concrete poems portray a breast as a metaphor for the cause of Johnson's mother's death from breast cancer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes a clipping of a review that appeared in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is edited with an introduction and translated by John Sturrock. The initial story is about "domestic and urban space and how, these days, we are made to occupy it. This is pure topography: plain to the point of obviousness at times, yet forever veering off into jolly idiosyncrasies of the kind that make Perec so entertainig to read." For example in "Species of Spaces," Perec describes the page, the bed, the bedroom, the apartment, the apartment buildlng, the street, the neighborhood, the town, the countryside, Europe, the world and space.Alessandro M Angelini (New York, NY) - Reviewing this book for Amazon.com writes "As the author of the world's longest palindrome and other literary feats, Perec's phenomenal linguistic skills and imagination remain incomparable. His works, however, on not merely experiments within the constraints of language; I am not as impressed with his ability to write a 300-page novel without a single letter "e" as much as his endearing sense of...

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Nations wrote the text of this novel and Amos illustrated it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was illustrated by Bob Gale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The four novels are titled: "Out," "Such," "Between," and "Thru." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The dust jacket depicts a naked self portrait of Gray and a muse that appears to be Morag McAlpine, his wife. The Sackners met them in Glasgow in 2004. Kirkus Reviews stated: "A most curious collection of semiautobiographical stories, from the veteran Scots author (the Whitbread-winner Poor Things, 1993; etc.) and graphic artist. The tales feature different protagonists and narrators, but the dominant one is a long-married (sometimes divorced) male approaching old age, taking stock of his (disappointing) life, and drawing resentful contrasts between vigorous youth and enfeebled age. There are terse, flimsy vignettes like "Pillow Talk," which portrays a husband trying to goad his wife into leaving him; a memory of "failures of common decency" that blighted a schoolboy's childhood ("Sinkings"); and a description of a peace march ("15 February 2003") that's only an excuse for lambasting Bush-and-Blair's Iraq policies. Several stories address the volume's themes more directly, and...

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In this book, Perloff traces the history of modern poetry mainly through such poets as Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Sanuel Beckett, John Ashbery, David Antin and John Cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a collage novel with words. It contrasts to Max Ernst's collage novels that are written without words. The copious number of illustrations for the novel consist of copperplate engravings collages mostly taken from issues of the Illustrated London News 1860-1900. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.