John Byrum, Crag Hill (eds.): Core: A Symposium on Contemporary Visual Poetry (1993)
Filed under book | Tags: · concrete poetry, language, literary theory, literature, mail art, poetry, visual poetry
“CORE consists of materials sent in response to a questionnaire on visual poetry developed and distributed by Crag Hill and John Byrum. The questionnaire was distributed to approximately 200 people in several countries whose efforts have been largely concerned with visual poetry. Nearly all of the respondents consider at least some of their literary work as visual poetry or visual literature.
The responses constitute a core sample of the issues, methods, and practices of contemporary visual poetry, and of the respondents’ perceptions regarding its situation within contemporary culture. Respondents were encouraged to deal with the ‘spirit’ of the issues raised by the questionnaire as much as with the particular questions themselves.” (from the Introduction)
Contributions by Johanna Drucker, Charles Bernstein, Dick Higgins, Richard Kostelanetz, Steve McCaffery, Eduardo Kac, among many others.
Publisher Generator Press, Mentor/OH, and Score, Mill Valley/CA, 1993
ISBN 0945112165
156 pages
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Kurt Schwitters: “Eile ist des Witzes Weile”: eine Auswahl aus den Texten (1987) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · art, avant-garde, dada, literature, poetry
A wide-ranging collection of poems, prose, manifestos and autobiographical texts by Kurt Schwitters. Several texts in English.
Edited by Christina Weiss and Karl Riha
Publisher Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart, 1987
ISBN 3150083923
160 pages
PDF (21 MB, no OCR)
Comment (0)Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Critical Essays (1982)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, language, media theory, poetry, politics, theory
Among the twelve scintillating essays by a German poet, translator, critic and playwright presented here are “The Industrialization of the Mind”, “Poetry and Politics”, “Constituents of a Theory of the Media”, “Toward a Theory of Treason”, “Tourists of the Revolution”, “A Critique of Political Ecology” and “Two Notes on the End of the World”.
Edited by Reinhold Grimm, Bruce Armstrong
Translated by Michael Roloff, Stuart Hood, Judith Ryan, David Fernbach and Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Foreword by John Simon
Introduction by Reinhold Grimm
Publisher Continuum, New York, 1982
German Library series
ISBN 0826402585, 9780826402585
250 pages
Review (Heinz D. Osterle, The German Quarterly, 1986, in German)
Review (Kathy Acker, Artforum, 1983, very low resolution)
