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Designated Wallet Number Two. Includes the following pamphlets: 1) Bob Cobbing: Windwound, 2) Jennifer Pike: Slack stack, 3) Herbert Burke: Cinquains, 4) Jeramy Adler:The Little Fruit Gum Memory Book, 5) Jean Trevor: Wind whirled, 6) Stan Trevor: HE, 7) Betty Radin: Journeys, 8) Fernando Setti: News, 9) ee vonna-mitchell: Seam, and 10) Bill Griffiths: Sun-Card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Fifteen variations each by Pike and Cobbing on the theme of Cylinder Head are included. The first and last were dedicated and performed at Subvoicive on December 9, 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents British Library: "Bob Cobbing (1920"“2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete, and performance poet; a central member of the British Poetry Revival; and an influence on generations of artists, sound experimenters, educators, poets, and printmakers. Perhaps his most famous work is 26 Sound Poems, several poems of which are included here, alongside collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, François Dufrene, and others, as well as previously unreleased archival recordings from the BBC and the British Library's Sound Archive, in which the listener can hear Cobbing's unique exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities inherent in the English alphabet. In a career marked by the emergence of the 1960s counterculture and the thrilling potential for sound-based performance poetics, the work of Bob Cobbing stands alone as an instrument at play for the human voice; a testament to the core interdisciplinarity between writings for print and sound; and the strangely verbal...

Scope and Contents British Library: "Bob Cobbing (1920"“2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete, and performance poet; a central member of the British Poetry Revival; and an influence on generations of artists, sound experimenters, educators, poets, and printmakers. Perhaps his most famous work is 26 Sound Poems, several poems of which are included here, alongside collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, François Dufrene, and others, as well as previously unreleased archival recordings from the BBC and the British Library's Sound Archive, in which the listener can hear Cobbing's unique exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities inherent in the English alphabet. In a career marked by the emergence of the 1960s counterculture and the thrilling potential for sound-based performance poetics, the work of Bob Cobbing stands alone as an instrument at play for the human voice; a testament to the core interdisciplinarity between writings for print and sound; and the strangely verbal...

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In his introductory essay, Eric Mottram writes, "This, the 500th Writers Forum publication, represents one of the most outstanding and original achievements in poetics publication in Britain this century." The author is also known as Jennifer Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.