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Perhaps the best treatment accorded to the life and work of a concrete poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of the works to this exhibition were loaned from the Sackner Archive but artists such as John Furnival and Margaret Riggs also loaned their works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The duplicate copy of this record also has the mimeographed pages written by Houedard. The manuscript of the Houedard piece is held by the Sackner Archive and the three copies are stored in three locations . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition consisted of four sections: 1) Ray Johnson collages; 2) Michael Morris concrete/constructivist drawings; 3) international concrete poems and 4) film and tapes of sound poetry. Michael Rhodes traces the historic roots of concrete poetry from 1897 to 1964. Edwin Varney contributes an illustrated, critical essay defining concrete poetry that is expressed in concrete poetic terms. Ian Hamilton Finlay and Stephen Scobie collaborate with an essay on definitions of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is Vos' doctoral thesis. He mentions that the Sackner and Sohm Archives are excellent sources for reseach on the international concrete poetry movement. He critically reviews definitions of concrete and visual poetry proposed in the past. He relies heavily on the material written by Siegfried J. Schmidt and Nelson Goodman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Beaulieu comments: an afterword after words: notes towards a concrete poetic.Despite over a century of poetic innovation since Stephane Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des Jamais n'Abolira le Hasard" (1896) & almost 50 years since the publication of Eugen Gomringer's manifesto "Concrete Poetry" (1956), there is still no accepted critical vocabulary for concrete poetry. Concrete poetry is often contextualized historically & is categorized as a subgenre of radicalized praxis from its predominantly modernist period in the 1950s through to the present. By reiterating this historical precedent -- a stridently modernist activity -- criticism on concrete poetry more often than not reifies the idea that this form is still in its infancy, requiring a citation of poetic precedent in order to justify its existence. Brion Gysin remarked that "writing is fifty years behind painting," an assertionevident in the cultural & critical reception for concrete poetry. Readings based upon...

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

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

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This is an anthology with definitions and examples of topics that include Riddles, Enigmas, Charades, Acrostics, Word Squares, Crosswords, Scrabble, Anagrams, Rebuses, Chronograms, Palindromes, Panagrams, Lipograms, Letter Games, Alphabet Games, Playing with Poetry, Concrete Poetry, Tongue Twisters, Spoonerisms, Lapsus Linguae, Games of Lewis Carroll, Consequences, Twenty Questions, Hangman, Puns, and The Longest Word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was also designated a Delta Original by the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.