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This card expresses "Warm holiday wishes from the Academy" using a quote from Ron Padgett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book was edited by Ted Berrigan and the cover and two drawings were done by Joe Brainard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Illustrated by Jim Dine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book defines 74 basic forms of poetry, summarizes their histories, and quotes excellent examples. The essay on concrete poetry states that "concrete poems use space. They use sound. Instead of simply letting the words stand for something else, the words in the poem dramatize their meaning by the way they look. They draw attention to their physical appearance, ink on the page. The poem becomes a collage of words, letters, and other symbols that may or may not have something to do with the meaning we usually assign to them. [Concrete poets] see poetry as a visual of graphic art. They see it as something that can be abstract and that must be looked at in order to be understood. In trying to enhance the meaning of the poem, as well as to free the poem from what these poets see as its linguistic or verbal limitations, they have made typeface, symbol, shape, and the spatial relationships between letters, words and lines fundamental elements." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...

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Exhibition consisted of publications from press owned by Ken and Ann Mikolowski. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.