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The Sackner Archive lent "Canailles" by Maurice Lemaitre and "Geste Hypergraphique" by Roberto Altmann to this exhibition and photographs of these works are reproduced in the catalogue. Sheena Wagstaff curated this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a collection of Nichol's comic strips and cartoons from 1960 to 1980. Nelson Ball, the bookseller comments "There is a serious error in this book in the titling of the final sequence which should be "The Lives & Loves of Captain George" and not "John Cannyside" as titled. The sequence is actually based on an interview of George Henderson, the proprietor of Memory Lane [book store and publisher] in Toronto. [Note: Most of the crossed through names on page 294 are pseudonyms used by Henderson for the pornographic novels he wrote, published in the USA by Knight Volumes, Target Novels, Lantern Books, Candlelight Books and Neva Paperbacks from 1964 to 1968]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.3. Includes sections on definitions, historical statements & manifestos, as well as chronologies of concrete and sound poetry. The book was first compiled in 1971 to coincide with the Stedelijk Museum's exhibition "?Concrete Poetry" but funding could not be obtained for publication. Additions to the book were continued until its publication in 1978. This is the first edition. The chronolgy was written by Dom Sylvester Houedard, Jeremy Adler and Dick Higgins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is also designated Writers Forum Series Studies in Concrete Poetry Number 3. In addition to examples from international concrete poets, the anthology cites chronologies of visual poetry and sound poetry from 1700 BC to 1978. Includes sections on definitions, historical statements and manifestos, concrete aspects of poetry, sound poetry, semantic poetry, myths of concrete poetry. Examples of poems from about 350 authors are reproduced. This is the third printing of the first edition.This reprinting under guidance by William Cobbing, Bob Cobbing's grandso, has an added introduction -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is also designated Writers Forum Series Studies in Concrete Poetry Number 3. In addition to examples from international concrete poets, the anthology cites chronologies of visual poetry and sound poetry from 1700 BC to 1978. Includes sections on definitions, historical statements and manifestos, concrete aspects of poetry, sound poetry, semantic poetry, myths of concrete poetry. Examples of poems from about 350 authors are reproduced. This is the third printing of the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition included representative poems by contemporary Portugese poet/artists. Fernando Aguiar's drawing "Murmurios Acerca de um Soneto," Cesar Figueiredo's collages "Solar" and Alberto Pimenta's collages "Viagem Poetica" are reproduced in the catalogue. All the originals are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This Exhibition included representative poems by contemporary Portugese poet/artists. Fernando Aguiar's drawing "Murmurios Acerca de um Soneto," Cesar Figueiredo's collages "Solar" and Alberto Pimenta's collages "Viagem Poetica" are reproduced in the catalog. The originals are held by the Sackner Archive. The poster is an exhibition announcement. The pages have become detached from the glued binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing. In the beginning of this book, traces the poets of concrete poetry country by country as follows: Switzerland, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, japan, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Spain, Scotland, England, Canada, and United States. This is followed by a section dealing with manifestos by Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Max Bense, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Henri Chopin, Paul De Vree, Jonathan Williams, and Ian Haimilton Finlay. The next section consists of concrete poems from from poets worldwide. Obituary: Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic, By Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer, June 29, 2007 Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as "Forsythia," a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita after...

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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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Bann discusses the history and development of the concrete poetry movement in this first broadly based collection of concrete poetry published in book form. Sections are devoted to Latin, Germanic and English poets. Particular attention is paid to pioneers such as Gomringer, the Brazilian Noigandres group and British poets Finlay and Morgan. -- 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.

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Bayard, in her Ph.D. dissertation, traces the beginning, growth and development of concrete poetry in Canada and focuses on styles of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cluver analyzes Willy Correa de Oliveira's music score for Augusto DeCampos' poem "Memos." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The reading of this book in1972 prompted the Sackners to switch from collecting contemporary examples of Constructivism to the Russian Avant Garde in 1974. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This collection of essays on mail art is mostly written by practitioners in this field. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the catalogue for the XV Sao Paulo Bienal. The title was also termed 'Cratylus.' The cover design was taken from a painting by Tom Phillips. In this catalogue, Hiouedard made the following comments: Dom Sylvester Houedard was born on the island of Guernsey. He studied at Jesus College Oxford and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Abbey at Prinknash in Gloucestershire; he was ordained as priest in 1959. He was a pioneer of British concrete poetry and regularly contributed to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s until his death. He became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961, and founded the Gloucestershire Ode Construction Company in 1967. One copy is stored as a reference text, the other alphabetically on the shelf. "During 1945 I realised the typewriter's control of verticals and horizontals, balancing its mechanism for release from its own imposed grid, (and) offered possibilities that suggested (I was in India at the time) the grading of Islamic...

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This book is an anthology of visual and picture poems made by students from kindergarten to the 12th grade living in Seattle, Washington. The poems and teaching methods are analyzed by the author who was a poet-in-residence in the school system in Seattle. In the final chapter, he presents and comments on poems by established adult poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes a review of Dada periodicals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Young includes a section on sound and concrete poetry entitled, " Post-Dada, Pop-Poetry, and the Literary Undergound." He highlights works by Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Adrian Henri, Jeff Nuttall, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Christopher Middleton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.