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The exhibition was curated by Ruth and Marvin Sackner. The catalogue was issued on the occasion of the exhibition and performance of Cobbing and Fencott at the Richter Library, University of Miami, February 25, 1982. The exhibition and performance was sponsored by Josephine Johnson, University of Miami. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue was published in conjunction with an exhibition by Heidsieck at the Centre International de Poesie in Sept 1998. There are several reproductions of Heidsieck's works in this issue including a collage from the Canal Street series (no.42) that is held by the Sackner Archive. This collage is depicted on page 12. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Henri Chopin Avant-garde pioneer of sound poetry Frédéric Acquaviva Tuesday February 5, 2008 The Guardian: "Towards the end of the second world war, Henri Chopin, who has died aged 85, escaped from a forced labour camp in Olomouc, in what is now the Czech Republic, after it had been bombed. He then spent time with the advancing Red Army, until, recaptured by the Germans, he and inmates of concentration and extermination camps were sent west on a Nazi "death march." Thousands died on those journeys and it was then that he listened to the voices of his fellow marchers, sounds which would infuse his work for the rest of his life. In the 1950s Henri created sound poetry, capturing breaths and cries made by his voice and body. He was, said his friend William Burroughs, an "inner space explorer", but the Frenchman remained a solitary figure, outside any artistic grouping, almost the only exponent of his art, and almost certainly the only poet to record sounds and movements by swallowing...

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Scotch art, collages that Wolman made with Scotch tape beginning in 1964 are described beginning on page 84. The Sackner Archive holds one such work as well as a "dechet d'oeuvre" depicted on page 207. This book provides a orderly review, year by year from 1950 to 1981 of Wolman's works including artworks, polemics and political texts. Frederic Acquaviva, an expert on Wolman's work, indicated that far less than 100 copies of this piece were made. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.