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This book illustrates a collection of 255 music manuscripts whose selection by Cage was determined by circumstances. The text was the result of I-Ching chance operations which determined how many words were to be written by or about the 269 composers. Not only the number of words and the author, but the typography too - letter size, intensity and typeface - were all determined by chance operations. Alison Knowles served as co-editor and also designed the book. The book is missing the dust jacket. it is complementary to another book held by the Sackner Archive of experimental music scores, "Spartito Preso" (1980) that emphasizes Italian composers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book was edited by Piotr Rypson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the most visually exiting issue of the periodical. It was available in a hard cover and stiff cover edition. The Sackner Archive copy holds the stiff cover version. There is a section that deals with remembrances of Kenneth Patchen by other poets and writers as well as an interview of Patchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Article is adapted from author's presentation at the Artists' Books Conference, Boston 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Poetics Today is published by Duke University Press. In vol.10, no.2 Higgins discusses the roots of pattern poetry and its contemporary influence. The Sackner Archive catalogue is listed as a reference. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Although his inscription alludes to a second edition, this was not meant to be. In this first edition, first printing, Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he descibes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows...

Scope and Contents Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he describes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows below.ABECEDARIAN VERSE: poetry in which the first word of a line, the subject of the line or all the words of the line are...

Scope and Contents Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he describes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows below.ABECEDARIAN VERSE: poetry in which the first word of a line, the subject of the line or all the words of the line are...

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This manuscript was in the archive of Dick Higgins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackners were invited to a televised conference for German TV in which the definitions of visual and concrete poetry were discussed in German that lasted hours with no definitive conclusions. The concluding respondent in the conference, Wolfgang Schmidt, gave a wink to the Sackners and replied to the question "What is Visual Poetry" with I...DON'T....KNOW! The event included an exhibition and poetic performances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This a collection of previously published essays on sound poetry that have been translated into Portuguese. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of chapters written on the field of Sound Poetry; these include essays and interviews. There are only two typewriter art pieces in this book, both by Henri Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The profusely illustrated book consists of biographical essays and examples of work by the graphic designers selected by the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.