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This is a different version of the other copy of the poem in typed carbon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazzon.com: This is the first full-scale English translation of one of Brazil's-and the world's-most influential avant-garde literary voices. A generous introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. As a poet and as a cofounder of the renowned group Noigandres, Haroldo de Campos has made a unique and substantial contribution to the theory and practice of experimental writing, particularly the form known as concrete poetry, and to the Latin American avant-garde as a whole. These contributions, acclaimed worldwide by figures such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Octavio Paz, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, can be observed unfolding here, first in poetry selections ranging from de Campos' early work before concretism through his most recent production; then in theoretical...

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Also contains a word key which lists and translates the words each poet uses frequently in his work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard has typed two poems a week apart on the same page. He utilized a complex mathematical procedure to arrive at this performance poetry presentation, much like the workings of Oulipo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the same poem in red ink but pubished b&w in Williams' 'Anthology of Concrete Poetry' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.