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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.

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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.

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The names charles (verey?) and eve are presented in various permutations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL, (16 May 1931, Ruislip "“ 1 February 2000, Frampton-on-Severn), Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (1984"“1989) was a poet, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic. Levi was born in Ruislip, Middlesex. The family of his father (Herbert Simon Levi) came from Istanbul and that of his mother (Edith Mary Tigar) was English. His mother was a devout Roman Catholic and his Jewish father converted to that religion; their three children all entered religious orders. He was educated in private Catholic establishments starting at Prior Park near Bath, run by the Christian Brothers. When he was 14 Oscar Wilde had become his literary idol. Wilde had said that the Greek text of the Gospels was the most beautiful book in the world, so a school with more Greek was demanded and he changed schools to Beaumont College, a Jesuit school in Old Windsor, Berkshire. While at...

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Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.3. Includes sections on definitions, historical statements & manifestos, as well as chronologies of concrete and sound poetry. The book was first compiled in 1971 to coincide with the Stedelijk Museum's exhibition "?Concrete Poetry" but funding could not be obtained for publication. Additions to the book were continued until its publication in 1978. This is the first edition. The chronolgy was written by Dom Sylvester Houedard, Jeremy Adler and Dick Higgins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Notes handwritten in pen

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A long column on the right side of the page consists of varied shades of m's with three balnk spaces in the column. The title is typed in the bottom left corner of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This pamphlet (folded sheet) is included in Revue Ou No.22, 1964, a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem is typed in blue ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The typed crossed letters read the same when turned upside down. This is the only dsh typed reversal poem in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.