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This issue depicts superb examples of visual and concrete poems drawn from around the world. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Diagramatic texts are based on scrabble board games starting with the name Buster Keaton. Eleven performances derive from the list of words on each board and film clips of Keaton. Nine layouts of the Scrabble game are depicted that have a concrete poetic appearance owing to different choices of type face and weight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dick Higgins comments are printed on the verso of the plywood cover. They read "Calling, a Happening by Allan Kaprow performed in and out of New York in the summer of 1965, is one of the landmarks of the form, and its scenario typifies the poetic rictual syle he has developed. This present graphic representation, however, began as an improvision when Kaprow, playing with a set of rubber stamp letters, stamped out each word of the scenario on a separate index card. I continued the game by assembling the cards on the copyboard of a graphic arts camera and shooting themby adding an element of color play. The resulting object os not, however, a final one in any sense. While the original acenario may be read by starting from bottom to top, right hand column to left hand, on the silver, blue, red, yellow, and, finally, brown sheets, there are other stories which the reader is invited to tell, other games for him to play." Kaprow died at age 78 years in San Diego on April 5, 2006 --...

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Johanna Drucker contributes an introductory essay on historic aspects of visual poetry which is carried forth to multimedia information systems of today. She also was responsible for the cover design. Karl Young contributes an afterword in which he focuses on mail art. He particularly addresses his own, ongoing Shadow Project that refers to the faint traces people left on nearby surfaces after they were vaporized by the atomic bombs in Japan. Young indicates that d.a. levy stands out as the major figure in the last three decades who left an indelible inprint on underground publications and visual poetry. He also adds that Tom Phillips is the most complete book artist. The Sackner Archive partially funded this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes a card by Dick Higgins (reprint?) dated 1978 entitled "Seven Stars for English Professors." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Second presentation of the First International Festival of Live Poetry (first exhibition catalogue is also held by the Sackner Archive). This exhibition included selected originals and photographs from the first exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Second presentation of the First International Festival Of Live Poetry (first presentation also held by Sackner Archive) held one year after the initial exhibition. This exhibition included selected originals and photographs of the first exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Higgins reviews Ruth Laxson's book "Measure-Cut-Stitch," held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The covers and pages of this catalogue were designed by Lawrence Weiner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.