Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.4 and is a reprinting of the lecture delivered by Cobbing at the Text as Figure exhibition in Wolfenbuttel 1987 with the following topics: 1) typewriter dirty clean, 2) typewriter, 3) calligraphy hand writing drawn letters, 4) press-on lettering, 5) press-on letters & other means, 6) mimeo misuse, 7) found materials, 8) more found materials, 9) photo-copying, 10) photo-copier, 11) computer, and 12) back to the beginning. The 69 examples in this book include mostly Cobbing's poems but a few examples of other poets as well. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.4 and is a reprinting of the lecture delivered by Cobbing at the Text als Figur exhibition in Wolfenbuttel 1987 with the following topics: 1) typewriter dirty clean, 2) typewriter, 3) calligraphy hand writing drawn letters, 4) press-on lettering, 5) press-on letters & other means, 6) mimeo misuse, 7) found materials, 8) more found materials, 9) photo-copying, 10) photo-copier, 11) computer, and 12) back to the beginning. The 69 examples in this book include mostly Cobbing's poems but a few examples of other poets as well. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cobbing describes the history of contemporary sound poetry and the techniques utilized by the poets. He concludes "The very diversity of sound poetry is in line with its emphasis on the freedom of the individual and the withering of external authority, on man as a communal and social animal, on communication as a life-giving activity, things which in this bureaucratic and techncratic age we need constantly to remember." This is Cobbing's manuscript essay for the ground-breaking exhibition, "klankteksten ? konkrete poezie visuele tesksten - sound texts ? concrete poetry visual texts - akustiche texte ? konkrete poesie visuelle texte." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Two copies have an isbn number on the front cover but one copy does not. The back cover of one copy with the isbn number has a different image than the other copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.