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Two copies have white covers and one a blue cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated pamphlets number nine. A performance copy of this work with added notes is also held by the Sackner Archive. it has the title, "Ana 1 - 5." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated pamphlets number nine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Although Cobbing is not generally thought of as producing language poetry, the clusters of seemingly meaningless words and unrelated phrases could place this book into such a category. It is of interest that Cobbing had later collaborations with Bruce Andrews, a recognized language poet. The work might also have originated from the cut-up technique but handwritten notes (Notes for (from) Chamber Music), held by the Sackner Archive suggest the former expalanation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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All the large calligraphic markings are formed from the letter "e." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Cobbing describes the first time he used words in a non-semantic way (1959). Now does no belive that there are any distinction beween music and art and poetry and dance. He indicates that he does not notate his sound poems because "every shape one sees on a page, conjures up a sound - any sound one hears conjures up a pattern, a mark on the page. Ross asks Cobbing about his sound scores [abstract markings] and how he reads these marks. He cites Norman McLaren who drew a sound track on film. McLaren stated that "a thin line will give you a high sound, a thicker line will give you a lower sound. If you make a little tiny point it'll give you a high 'ping,' if you make it a rounder blob, a biggr blob, it'll give you a 'boom'..." Cobbing indicates than when he makes marks on paper, he writes in sound. Cobbing tells about a painting he made that was exhibited in a library entitled "Integration alone is not enough" (1962/1963) in which Margaret Thatcher, then a local representative saw...

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At the Betsey Trotwood. Launch of "a split" by Ralph Hawkins and Bob Cobbing

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At the Churchills Mount Pleasant. Launch of "songs that sparrows knew" by Doreen King and "proper launch" of "depressions strokes" by Wayne Clements

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At the the Betsey Trotwood. 50th year! Launch of "Phantom Returns" by Adrian Clarke and "Tone Text Talk" by Bob Cobbing

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One copy has a blue, the other a yellow background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.