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Born in 1957 and educated at the London College of Printing, the early influences on Brody were Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Punk Rock, Moly Nagy, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and Malevich. Brody has designed record covers, magazines book covers, logos most recently digitized images and alphabets. Brody was a founder of Fuse, a digital disc accompanied by posters of experimental typography. Jon Wozencroft provided the text and captions for these books which are reprinted from the 1988 & 1994 editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Photographic portraits of 101 contemporary American poets are matched with their personal, handwritten signed prose, poetic statements, and/or drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The titles of these lectures include "The last Stand of Literature," The Real Begins When the Spectacle Ends," "Federman on Federman: Lie Or Die," and "the Supreme Indecision of Postmodernism." The clarity of the essays and the analysis of how Federman sees himself in relation to the political and cultural world reinforces his importance and influence in 20th century literature and thought. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of an exhibition of the work of Brion Gysin at the New Museum in New York. The curator, Laura Hoptman writes that "in her minds eye Brion Gysin will finally emerge, fully formed, in this retrospective as the artist he really was...This wil be one version of him, And maybe someday all the musicians he knew and all the people he slept with or all the people he had influenced so deeply will end up giving us their own Brion Gysins." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Robert H. Jackson contributed an essay "William S. Burroughs: A Man with Qualities" and loaned much of the manuscripts to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a signed, unfolded, poster collaborative work by the artists that was published in Review OU No.38-39, 1971. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The asemic writing on the photocopied colored pages by Leftwich makes each book unique -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Elsas visited the Sackner Archive to study the Phillips works in the collection and several of the reproductions in this student thesis are taken from works in the Archive. The thesis is an exceptionally mature, perceptive critical accounting of Phillips' "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Brion Gysin (1916-1986) was a multifaceted artist whose fertile mind and wide range of original ideas were a source of inspiration for artists of the Beat Generation in Paris, as well as to innovative artists and performers such as David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Keith Haring, and Laurie Anderson in the next generation. Painter, writer, sound poet, tape composer, lyricist, and performance artist, Gysin is remembered particularly for his evocative paintings of the North African desert in the 1950s and his original calligraphic abstractions based on Japanese and Arabic scripts. The chance discovery by Gysin of the cut-up technique (later developed and refined by William S. Burroughs) and the concept of permutated poems gave rise to new and original forms of sound art wordplay, striking not only in print but also in recordings or live performance. Gysin's inventive ideas also extended to the Dreamachine and to collages of text and photographs. This is the first comprehensive publication on...

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The catalogue Iincluded an interview of Chopin by Zurbrugg and a series of brief reminsciences submitted by friends of Chopin including Marvin Sackner. Nicholas Zurbrugg's nationality is Swiss-Australian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue provides one of the most intellligent reviews of concrete and visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Allen De Loach. Photograph of Eric Mottram by Jennifer Cobbing. This book is one of the 1125 of a total print run of 3500 bound in cloth. Mottram minutely examines Burroughs' life and major works, stating in Chapter 1 that Burroughs is "...a radical satirist whose indignation and disgust reach through the crust of the power games of the world into the aggressive areas of the obscene....expos[ing] the -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This obituary of Burroughs was written by Tony Perry for the August 4, 1997 edition of the newspaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.