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Motte provides a critical analysis of Perec's lipogram novel, "La Disparition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes a review of Claude Melin's book, "Chansons de Geste." Valerie Marchand contributed an illustrated essay on the Chinese calligraphic work of Fabienne Verdier. Renaud Siegmann provided an illustrated revew of the Mail Art exhibition, "Le Coup du Mail 98," at Maison des Arts de Laon, France as well as an article on Fabienne Jouvin, a correspondence artist. Rubin Dupre-Marcellin contributed an illustrated article about artists who use writing in their paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A table of chronology of Portuguese concrete poetry included in this book indicates that it began in 1962 with publication of de Melo e Castro's book, "Ideogramas." The book reprints texts and correspondence from the early days of concrete poetry in Portugal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Joan Brossa's print "Poema Visuale" is depicted in this catalogue; the Sackner Archive holds this print. The stapled pages constitute a check list of the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The brochure is the exhibition catalogue. The article is a reprint from the journal Leonardo by Liliane Lijn entitled "Body and Soul: Interactions between the Material and the Immaterial in Sculpture." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Editorial Review: "Carl Andre (born 1935) was a poet before he was an artist, and between 1960 and 1965 he produced a substantial body of innovative visual poetry. Arranging language on paper as carefully and as sculpturally as he was later to arrange pieces of metal or bricks on the floor, Andre approached words as adjustable entities, to be moved around within the limits of the space of the sheet of paper. These works, made during the height of the international Concrete poetry movement, appeared alongside his sculptures in exhibitions and were excerpted in scholarly writings about the artist. With this volume, Andre's influential poetic oeuvre is now gathered comprehensively for the first time. The poems, which were often typed on 8 x 11 paper, are reproduced in quasi-facsimile, to convey Andre's sculptural intentions. Also included are essays by art historians Gavin Delahunty and Valerie Mavridorakis, and curator Lynn Kost."This book accompanied an exhibition, Carl Andre:...

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The cover of this book with a concrete poem composed of calligraphic text over text was designed by Rolf Gunter Dienst. In Hollo's introduction, he cites a letter from Allen Ginsberg (March 1961), "Do you know a funny 17 yr old german kid who runs a magazine, weird, Rhinozeros - ask him for a copy - Rolf Gunter Dienst..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: The fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour is a comprehensive gathering of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a range of cultures and voices, including Berber, Phoenician, Jewish, Roman, Vandal, Arab, Ottoman, and French. The selections are contextualized by a general introduction that situates the importance of this little-known culture area and individual commentaries for nearly each author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: The fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour is a comprehensive gathering of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a range of cultures and voices, including Berber, Phoenician, Jewish, Roman, Vandal, Arab, Ottoman, and French. The selections are contextualized by a general introduction that situates the importance of this little-known culture area and individual commentaries for nearly each author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This extensive poetry anthology has brief comments that accompany each poem. It includes an English translation of Cendrars and Delaunay's 'The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France,' a work held in the original by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.