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Karl Riha edited the series that included this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Pie o provides a wonderful biography of Jas Duke and selects additional poems to those reprinted from Duke's "poems of life and death." The accompanying compact disc is Jas Duke reading poems from the latter. thalia (internet); Jas H. Duke was born in Ballarat, Australia in 1939. Son of two schoolteachers, Irish-Scottish ancestors. His family moved to Melbourne in the 1950s. He worked as a draftsman/ a laboratory assistant/ a technical writer and dreamed of becoming a chess champion (didnt quite make it). As a substitute he read every book that he could find. In the 60's he became an Anarchist. Wrote short stories, and was desperately looking for a way to break-out! Went to England via the U S of A, where he circulated in the politico-psychedelic underground. In England he sought the commraderie of Freedom Press; met Ted Kavanagh, Cohn Bendit, Yoko Ono, and Raoul Hausmann. Jas became a political activist, and an actor who appeared in many underground movies by filmmaker Jeff Keen....

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Webster states that the four main poets discussed in this book, that was originally a doctural thesis, were not influenced by Mallarme's Un Coup de Des. In the case of Marinetti, he points out the structural typographic differences and similarities between Un Coup de Des and Parole In Liberta. Webster uses the term, visual poetry, as synonymous with concrete poetry. An appendix depicts several poems descibed in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue depicts copious illustratIons of his works througout his lifetime. It is mentioned that Kriwet wrote his first book, "Rotor," in 1961 as a continuous text without capital letters, stops and commas at age 19 years. This book is analyed on pages 53-55 by Christoph Benjamin Schulz. A 1981 solo exhibition was the last one for 23 years until 2004 when rgw BQ gallery in Cologne showed old and recent works. And until 2011 when the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf held this retrospective. Pages 57-103 depict examples of Kriwet's typewritten poetry beginning at age 14 years with convention poetry and progresssing to concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.