dsh analyzes the sound poems of Cobbing and Jandl as well as making comparisons to Zen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems in this book are mainly sound poems from made-up words. The afterward consists of an essay about Jandl's work by Helmut Heissenbuttel. There are slight differences in the layout of the poems and their order in this edition compared to its second publication in 1971. For example, the same poem on pages 194 and 195 of this edition (1966) is laid out on page 190 in the second edition (1971). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems in this book are mainly sound poems from made-up words. The afterward consists of an essay about Jandl's work by Helmut Heissenbuttel. There are slight differences in the layout of the poems and their order in this edition compared to its first publication in 1966. For example, the same poem on page 190 of this edition is laid out over facing pages 194 and 195 in the first edition (1966). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a reprinting of the book which was first published in 1965; it is No.15 in the Poets* series. In the introduction, Houedard traces the history of sound poetry through a listing of the chronology of "notable soundpoems" beginning with Lewis Carroll in 1855 and ending with Cobbing in 1965. He also mentions Egyptian hymns 300 B.C. of breath poems consisting of may notes sung to one syllable. Houedard's manuscript for this essay is held by the Sackner Archive. This book was written to accompany Writers Forum Record No.1 by Jandl and Cobbing. One of the poems by Jandl in this book, "time passes," also appears in the manuscript and book of "mai hart...," works also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.