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This is a choral performance work that consists of words by bp nichol and music by Howard Gerhard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Several poems are spread across the pages in the manner of Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des" or the calligrams of Apollinaire. Several of the concrete poems are characterized by fragmented words or absence of spacing between words. This copy differs from the trade edition and the personalized copy held formerly by James Baldwin. The inside covers are painted yellow and the foredges of the pages red. The dedication is written in a distinctive calligraphic style in blue and red inks on the yellow painted background of the inside front cover. There are ten circles outlined in black ink from 3.5-9.7 cm diameter scattered throughout the book of which eight are filled in with colored inks and one is cut out from the page. These embellishments are more elaborate than those in the the James Baldwin copy. Two of the pages with circles form an abstract composition with other lines drawn on the page. Three of the printed concrete poems in the book are overlaid with red paint. Pritchard was born in...

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Several poems are spread across the pages in the manner of Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des" or Apollinaire's calligrams. Several of the concrete poems are characterized by fragmented words or absence of spacing between words. Pritchard was born in 1939 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several poems are spread across the pages in the manner of Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des" or Apollinaire's calligrams. Several of the concrete poems are characterized by fragmented words or absence of spacing between words. Pritchard was born in 1939 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several poems are spread across the pages in the manner of Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des" or Apollinaire's calligrams. Several of the concrete poems are characterized by fragmented words or absence of spacing between words. Pritchard was born in 1939 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several poems are spread across the pages in the fashion of Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des" or the calligrams of Apollinaire. Many of the concrete poems are characterized by fragmented words or absence of spacing between words. The dedication is written in a distinctive calligraphic style in black and red inks. There are nine circles outlined in black ink from 3.5-9.5 cm diameter scattered throughout the book of which four are filled in with colored inks and one is cut out from the page. The book was in James Baldwin's library in St. Paul de Vence. Pritchard was born in 1939 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a first edition, first printing. Concrete poems appear on pages 498 & 499. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a first edition, fourth printing. Page 145 depicts a concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cards are assembled in a square like a jig-saw puzzle to form the Holiday greetings from the Wolfs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image consists of a single word, Pornography, drawn in paint in the center of the paper almost as one would might expect in an illuminated manuscript. Dripping down from this word is a layer of muted powdered graphite that serves as a metaphorical contrast of the beauty of the written word and the intent of its meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 43. The shape of the poem is a dragonfly viewed from above and this mentioned in the concluding phrase, "Stars shine bright on shatter light fate twitch wings finning out inner atmosphere character. Thee.The. That's go with the flow of the delicate Herakleition transparent inner stratasphere dragonfly light wings, folks." The dragonfly's body consists of rhyming nonsense words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The shape of this poem is a bow and arrow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Essay about home in Yorkshire of archivist and Finlay dealer, Greville Worthington. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bayard dedicated the book, which developed from her doctoral thesis, to Ruth and Marvin Sackner. In the acknowledgments she states, "I would like to express my gratitude ...especially to Marvin Sackner for generously granting me unlimited access to his marvellous collection of concrete and post-modern artefacts. Without such direct, visual, and hands-on contact with concrete and deconstructed items, I would have known them only abstractly."Bayard's book is heavily oriented to criticism and theory of concrete poetry with particular attention to the work of bp Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.