Manuel de Seabra provides a brief classification list for this book: performance poetry, concrete poetry, sound poetry, mechanical poetry, and visual poetry. A section of this book deals with Coca Cola visual poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is one of the most extensive collection of word-image material with emphasis on concrete poems ever commercially published. The text is brief, e.g., a preface by Jean-Francois Bory and a postface by Isabelle Maunet-Salliet. Each image is printed one to a page. Although the emphasis is on French poets, there are images from poets all over the world. Significant omissions that are bound to occur in such a large undertaking include among others d.a. levy, Dick Higgins, Dom Silvester Houedard, Steve McCaffery, bill bissett, Edgardo-Antonio Vigo, Leon Ferrari, Mira Schendel, Ana Hatherly, Herman de Vries, Ernesto M. de Melo e Castro, Ben, Herman Damen, Enzo Miglietta, Carlfriedrich Claus, Alan Riddell, and Rachid Koriachi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an in-depth critical review of six French concrete and visual poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue documents an important, extensive extensive exhibition of artists books. The cover depicts a page from "A Humument" by Tom Phillips. The original of this page is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

First printing. Bory's introduction traces the history of the concrete poetry movement and its aesthetic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Second printing. Bory's introduction traces the history of the concrete poetry movement and its aesthetic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cluver contributed an essay, "On Representation in Concrete and Semiotic Poetry." Eric Vos wrote about "Visual Literature and Semiotic Conventions." Eduardo Kac's wrote on "Holopoetry and Hyperpoetry." Charlotte Schoell-Glas contributed "The Medium is the Message: Ian Hamilton Finlay's Garden Little Sparta,"an essay that reviewed the political side of Finlay's work. David Scott described the postage stamps of Donald Evans in "Semiotics and Ideology in Mixed Messages: The Postage Stamp."Cluver focuses on the word, "Ekphrasis" defined by some as "the verbal representation of graphic representation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes illustrations of "A Journey," silkscreen prints by Emmett Williams; the originals are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.