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Also designated Hit Broadside #8. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card was addressed to Karl Kempton, the publisher of Kaldron. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Second presentation of the First International Festival of Live Poetry (first exhibition catalogue is also held by the Sackner Archive). This exhibition included selected originals and photographs from the first exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Second presentation of the First International Festival Of Live Poetry (first presentation also held by Sackner Archive) held one year after the initial exhibition. This exhibition included selected originals and photographs of the first exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, the typed poems are intricate and mostly symmetrically balanced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, the typed poems are intricate and mostly symmetrically balanced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bob Grumman wrote the introduction in which he comments on the form of Kempton's poems whereby a word is split into two or more words by intervening spaces. He mentions that G. Huth designated this form as a severlation. These poems are printed one to a page, e.g., artifact = art if act, justice = just ice, herring = her ring, netherlands = net her lands, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Newspaper magazine article documents the work of Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of the visual poems in this issue were exhibited at VISUALOG at the Julian A. Mcphee gallery, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, March 1979. Kempton also provided an insightful essay on the place of Kenneth Patchen in the origins of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes several reproductions of Hebrew and Latin pattern poems as well as Yantras and Mantras. A portion of Xenakis' imaginary newspaper, a work that is held by the Sackner Archive, is reproduced on the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents KALDRON NRS 8, 9, 10 AND 15 Grover City: Kaldron, 1979 - 1980 45 x 29cm, tabloid. Nrs 8 - 10 on newspaper stock and nr 15 on semi-coated stock. Nrs 8 - 10 are 16pp self cover while nr 15 is 20pp (self-cover). Four separate numbers of this concrete poetry magazine founded by Karl Kempton as "a tabloid for lyric and visual poetry, presented as collaborations or parallels". By 1979, around the issue nr 8 offered here, the magazine shifted to publishing only visual poetry and it was the only magazine at the time in the U.S. exclusively dedicated solely to visual poetry. The magazine had an open editorial policy with guest curators choosing the content of individual pages and reprinting items submitted with contact details alongside the artworks (which hinted at a role as an unintended mail art journal). Kaldron (named after the Fire symbol from the i-Ching) became financially a drain on the publisher and from the early 1990s the zine turned to the internet to continue publication while...

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Support from Ruth & Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.