Title: Venetsialainen Sarja: Nagauta 32-71.
Description: (Uusiklya, Finland: Aitini Talo), n.d. [circa 1987]. n.d. [circa 1987]. - Quarto [9-5/8 inches high by 7 inches wide], soft cover bound in pictorial white wraps with an image in black & gray on the front wrap, in original glassine. 175 & [1] pages, unopened. There is a short tear to the glassine. Near fine.
First edition.
Number 72 of 300 numbered copies. This is number 72.
Inscribed by the author to Dick Higgins of Something Else Press on the title page: "For Dick Higgins / SEE PAGE 38, 50 160, 129, 148, 176 - / YOU KNOW FINNISH / FULL OF OPTIMISM / May 15.87 / Arto".
Nagauta ["long song" in Japanese] is in its purest form, a lyrical form with texts that are poetic and allusive. It developed within Kabuki Theater in Edo and was originally several short songs strung together.
In the 1980s, the Finnish poet Arto Kytöhonka (1944-1992) was also one of the pioneers in the use of microcomputers among writers. He translated the interfaces of some programs into Finnish, developed a poetry generator, and wrote a word processing guide for ordinary computer users.
The text is in Finnish.
Scarce. Very good .
Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; FINNISH; ARTO KYTOHONKA; VENETSIALAINEN SARJA; NAGAUTA 32-71; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
- Book number: 29351
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