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de Campos describes his translation of the works of Marina Tsvietaieva a Russian poet (1892-1941). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Theme is bossa nova and contemporary music of Brazil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book has a very extensive bibliography on the Brazilian avant garde in the early 20th century. Unfortunately, there are scant examples provided of the poetry of this period. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was organized, designed and curated by Regina Vater. It included an excerpt written by Charles Perrrone taken from the exhibition "Brazilian Concrete & Visual Poetry from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive that was hels at the University of Florida. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Review of the periodical "Modulo." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing. In the beginning of this book, traces the poets of concrete poetry country by country as follows: Switzerland, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, japan, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Spain, Scotland, England, Canada, and United States. This is followed by a section dealing with manifestos by Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Max Bense, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Henri Chopin, Paul De Vree, Jonathan Williams, and Ian Haimilton Finlay. The next section consists of concrete poems from from poets worldwide. Obituary: Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic, By Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer, June 29, 2007 Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as "Forsythia," a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita after...

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Cluver analyzes Willy Correa de Oliveira's music score for Augusto DeCampos' poem "Memos." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In this thesis, Hilder provides new concepts and arguments about the genesis of concrete poetry backed up by a serious interpretation and collation of published material. He relies heavily on critical texts in three full length books written in English, Liselotte Gumpel's "Concrete Poetry" from East and West Germany (1976), David Seaman's Concrete Poetry in France (1981) and Caroline Bayard's The New Poetics in Canada and Quebec. All are held by the Sackner Archive.Hilder "argues that the critical gaps in concrete poetry criticism, both contemporaneous and subsequent to the concrete poetry movement, have fallen into (1) the national fallacy: the attempt to read an international movement within a national framework; (2) the ancient fallacy: the attempt to link concrete poetry with visual poetry and word imagery dating back to ancient cultures; (3) the theoretical fallacy: the attempt retrospectively to read onto concrete poetry the post-structuralist theories of language that...

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This is the second edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The final page contains the poem "Tvgrama" by Augusto de Campos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a translation by Augusto De Campos from English to Portuguese. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cluver brings out the connections of August DeCampos' colored textural, concrete poems to the colored musical compositions of Anton von Webern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Deals with an academic course in which the participating poets taught students; this catalogue prints representative concrete poems and supporting texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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DeCampos responds to a classification system proposed by Houedard by pointing out "visual organization of words, with an overemphasis on relations of proximity and resemblance between them, leads ineluctably to an equivalent overemphasis on sound, implying a dynamical use of paronomasia and alliteration that explains why Brazilian young musicians have been so much interested in many of our seeming eyepoems, and in the making of oral presentations for them." He states he wrote to Hugh Kennerabout Ezra Pound and received a sympathetic response. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The booklet consists of the complete poem Un Coup de Des in French; its translation into Portuguese appears in the book. This is the first edition; the second edition appeared in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.