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This anthology of poems for most part published in the 60s representing four present tendencies of poetry-Metapoetry: the Poetry of changes, Language Happenings (Concrete & Intermedia Poetry), Found Poetry & the 'Poetry of Survival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover design depicts a page of Tom Phillips' A Humument. This extensive poetry anthology has brief comments that accompany some of the poems, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover design depicts a page of Tom Phillips' A Humument. There are brief comments that accompany some of the poems in this extensive poetry anthology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition deals with poetry off the page onto the walls of the gallery, including sculptures, paintings, films and videos. Curated by Jay Sanders and Charles Bernstein, the works "offer a constellation of intellectually compelling, poetically dense, visually dazzling works that represent some of the most exciting efforts in current practice." Catalogue essays were contributed by Jay Sanders and Charles Bernstein. Johanna Drucker's text is titled, "Plastic Modalities: Emerging Sentience." Tom Phillips' text is from "Notes on A Humument." The Sackners lent eight original pages from "A Humument." John Cage describes his work "Not Wanting To Say Anything About Marcel," a work lent to the exhibition by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This volume is the first collection of Rothenberg's poetic writings and includes ideas and excerpts from his books and essays. Rothenberg indicates that Abulalfia (1240-c.1291) himself writes of the abstracting/spiritualizing process which he then employs & by which the world is apprehended as language/sound: "Know that the method of tseruf (the combination of letters) can be compared to music; for the ear hears sounds from various combinations,in accordance with the character of the melodu & the instrument. In touch with yogic currents fgrom the East, Abulafia's intention was mantric, but his practice of a systemic & concrete poetry also closely resembles the 20th century Lettrisme of Isidore Isou, the asymmetries & nuclei of Jackson Mac Low & the blues Kabbalah improvisions of Jack Hirschman, all of whom he may have influenced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Andy Warhol designed the cover that consists of a yellow and black silkscreen, gummed, perforated, 12 stamps sheet entitled "Bomb Hanoi." Also, this issue has a photograph of a facing pages paste-up by Jess. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cover was designed by George Maciunas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of 29 essays of writings by the Avant Garde in America. Kostelanetz mentions "Seatbelt, Seatbelt" by Amirkhanian and notes that it never has been commercially recorded. He includes essays on the work of Michael Joseph Phillips and Harry Polkinhorn. Kostelanetz raves about the esthetics of Peter Rose's film, "Pressures of the Text (1983), a work held by the Sackner Archive. He writes a complementary essay on Kenneth Burke and illustrates it with a concrete poetic "flowerisches." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Perloff traces the history of modern poetry mainly through such poets as Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Sanuel Beckett, John Ashbery, David Antin and John Cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dust jacket description: What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information"” a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, "originality" begins to take a back seat to what can be done with other people's words"”framing, citing, recycling, and otherwise mediating available words and sentences, and sometimes entire texts. Marjorie Perloff here explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of "unoriginal" writing. Paradoxically, she argues, such citational and often constraint-based poetry is more accessible and, in a sense, "personal" than was the hermetic poetry of the 1980s and 90s.Perloff traces this poetics of "unoriginal genius" from its paradigmatic work, Benjamin's encyclopedic Arcades Project, a book largely made up of citations. She discusses the processes of choice, framing, and reconfiguration in the work of Brazilian...