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This is a reprint of the same work by housepress in 2003 that is held by the Sackner Archive, It was the last collaborative poetry that the two authors made, writing and rewriting using additive and destructive processes as well as photocopying techniques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is also designated Writers Forum Series Studies in Concrete Poetry Number 3. In addition to examples from international concrete poets, the anthology cites chronologies of visual poetry and sound poetry from 1700 BC to 1978. Includes sections on definitions, historical statements and manifestos, concrete aspects of poetry, sound poetry, semantic poetry, myths of concrete poetry. Examples of poems from about 350 authors are reproduced. This is the third printing of the first edition.This reprinting under guidance by William Cobbing, Bob Cobbing's grandso, has an added introduction -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is No.2 in a series edited by Will Parfitt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Designated minibooks number six. This is the first edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...

Scope and Contents Designated minibooks number six. This is the third edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...

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Designated minibooks number nine. One copy is a varient in that the size of the booklet is smaller than the other two copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author is also known as Jennifer Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.