Scope and Contents This antholgy of Weiner's works was edited by Patrick F. Durgen who also wrote the introduction. Hannah Weiner's Early and Clairvoyant Journals by Patrick Durgin is also on http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/m504/index.html. "Typing to you a thoug[h]t is seen cartridge script machine." Hannah Weiner, letter to Bernadette Mayer, April 19, 1975. It is an extremely rare thing in any field to invent a new form. Invention, as such, momentarily collapses the frontier between theory and practice. This is why it not only invariably widens the scope of that field's potential acheivements, but it appears to us, in hindsight, as an event, a phenomenon, a content through which to bring the overall form of that field into historical relief. Although largely unknown and practically unread, Hannah Weiner accomplished such an invention. She called it "large-sheet poetry" - I call it "avant-garde journalism." With the publication of Weiner's major works of the 1970s, we come a long way toward filling...

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Johanna Drucker reviews a book, "The Fast," by Hannah Weiner and Jackson MacLow contributes a remembrance of John Cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.