Archive for Defying Linear Deification: Contemporary Toronto Visual Poetry and its Afterward 1 / curry, jw; Birney E; Nichol bp; UU D; Aylward D; Broudy H; Dutton P; McCaffery S; Truhlar R; Dean M; Amann E; Swede G; Shikatani G; Goluska G., 1987
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Scope and Contents
curry traces the development of concrete and visual poetry in Toronto for an essay in Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly Vol.9 No.3-4, 1987, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. He lists Earle Birney's book entitled pnomes jukollages and other stunzas 1969, as the first concrete poetry by a main stream Canadian poet. He comments that bp Nichol's 1st book, Cycles etc., 7 Flowers Press, were chant structures that relied heavily on visual sonic similarities... between words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
See moreDates
- Creation: 1987
Creator
- jwcurry, 1959- (Person)
- Birney, Earle, 1904-1995 (Person)
- bpNichol, 1944-1988 (Person)
- David UU, 1948-1994 (Person)
- Aylward, David, 1942- (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 manuscript (st draft) + 5 pages (typed, ink, handwriting) in envelope (paper, graphite, handwriting)) ; 22 x 28 cm, in envelope 31 x 23 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
box shelf
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: Toronto, Canada : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: jwcurry (t.c.- envelope). Nationality of creator: Canadian. General: 1 number copy. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
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