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This is Upton's account of sound poetry compositions made at Fylkingen Stockholm and presented at the National Poetry Centre in August 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Chopin mentions the death of his wife, Jean in 1985 "when everything stopped." Also, he adds a visit to Miami in 1985 (gave a performance at the Sackners that is not cited in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This text of this book that was first published in Kontextsound in 1977 consists of an interview of Cobbing by Mottram. Cobbing discusses how he switched from composing conventional poems to sound poems circa 1963. He also makes mention of music as it relates to sound poems and his belief that avant garde musicians appropriated material from poets not vice-versa. Bob Cobbing died at age 82 years in 2002. Robert Shepard wrote the obituary in The Guardian October 7, 2002. "Bob Cobbing, who has died aged 82, was the major exponent of concrete, visual and sound poetry in Britain. Long after its international heyday in the 1960s, he continued to produce visual texts that were also scores for performance, many of them published as booklets by his Writers' Forum press, and launched at its associated workshop, which has been meeting in private houses and rooms above pubs since 1954. His work appears in many anthologies. Born in Enfield, Cobbing was brought up within that close religious...

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The text consists of notes for the record of the same title; the record is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Furnival describes the birth of his son to Henri Chopin and asks to use Chopin as a reference during his job search. The picture is of Harry as a newborn. There is a small concrete vowel poem at the bottom of drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card depicts a photographic portrait of Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bob Cobbing has made notations for the actual performance times on Swedish radio on this personal copy. He notes that Valoch's contribution was not received in time for the festival. This copy is stored with Cobbing material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This letter is addressed to John Sharkey in which Houedard mentions well known poets of the '60s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the maquette for pages set in bold, large typeface in Chopin's book "Le Dernier Roman Du Monde." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of original poems and personal observations by Chopin as well as contributions regarding his work by his friends. Chopin provides a description of his artistic and political life as a poet, publisher and typewriter artist. Nicholas Zurbrugg contributes an essay from 1994, "Henri Chopin: Astronaut of Inner Space." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book deals with Chopin's diary notes on the making of his sound poems. He mentions meeting the Sackners on his visit to Miami Beach in 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.