Cluver contributed an essay, "On Representation in Concrete and Semiotic Poetry." Eric Vos wrote about "Visual Literature and Semiotic Conventions." Eduardo Kac's wrote on "Holopoetry and Hyperpoetry." Charlotte Schoell-Glas contributed "The Medium is the Message: Ian Hamilton Finlay's Garden Little Sparta,"an essay that reviewed the political side of Finlay's work. David Scott described the postage stamps of Donald Evans in "Semiotics and Ideology in Mixed Messages: The Postage Stamp."Cluver focuses on the word, "Ekphrasis" defined by some as "the verbal representation of graphic representation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book presents colored reproductions of ancient visual games, optical illusions, rebuses, and puzzles along with explanations. Fanciful maps are depicted on pages 8, 10, 28, 29, 30, 32, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a montage of polemic and poetic fiction that calls into question the whole aim and structure of civilisation since the beginning of history, advocating a new, more creative and less frightened human mode of behaviour. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book records Aguiar's philosophy about concrete and performance poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author writes that this study was intended as an introduction to the work of Georges Perec and was designed to accompany a reading of his texts. Motte attempts to develop the outline of a post-modern literary career and to present a coherent exposition of Perec's poetic theory. He organized the study into the following chapters: formal constraint, autoreference, the game, description, the letter, dream and memory, and metaliterature. It includes 22 texts from 1965 to 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

Coblentz expresses highly negative feelings about contemorary poets writing experimental and concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Internet: THE POLITICS OF POETIC FORM: POETRY AND PUBLIC POLICY is a series of essays from a discussion that occurred at the New School for Social Research in New York. The discussion mines the relationship between poetic composition and political expression. Poetry's relationship to public policy typically has a questionable margin of relation. Not only does this volume posit that poetry is a dynamic medium for the consideration of political ideas, it focuses on the ideological weight specific formal innovations bring to poetry. Some of the writers include Jerome Rothenberg, Ron Silliman, Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey and Charles Bernstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Beppe Cavatorta contributed an essay on Spatola's poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ths publication of the book coincided with an exhibition of Finlay's printed works at the Marfa Book Company in Marfa, Texas. It was entitled "Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Selelection of Printed Works." All the works displayed in this exhibition are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Brian lane's unique contribution to small-press publishing was begun in the mid nineteen-sixties at Gallery Number10 in Blackheath, southeast London.This was one of the first artists' spaces in Britain, and along side its programme of exhibitions and events, there emerged a growing lit of publications with poets and artists. The apogee of this activity was, however, the late nineteen-seventies, when under the imprint Editions Brian Lane he issued many of his distilled performance in print... This book incluses an extensive bibiography of all of Brian Lane's published works now held in the Tate Gallery Archive, with forty-eight pages of illustrations in color and black and white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

From his personal collection, Celant mounted an exhibition of record covers as artworks that also featured sound poetry. He includes a definitive discography from 1927-1977 and a listing of record producers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was published as a companion work for the exhibition in the Rare Book Room of the Van Pelt Library. It proposes "A new culture of memory and archiving in the true spirit of the beehive." Anthony Grafton's essay "The Commonplace Bee; A Celebration" describes through historical commonplace books "how early modern playwrights and poets, scholars and scientists, ladies and schoolboys went about the vital task of mastering and using books - at a time when books were the most powerful source of knowledge about life, the universe and everything." The DVD "In which the thinking man finds himself" was produced by Aaron Levy and explores an archive in disarray in historic Founder's Hall at Girard College in Philadelphia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition was curated by Christopher Wagstaff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.