Author: Floating Concrete Octopus (Was, Liz; And, Miekal; Helsem, Michael).
Title: Wakest Aims? Kind Law & Zeal!
Description: Iowa City, IA: Photostatic, (1989). (1989). - Small quarto [8-1/2 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide], soft covers bound in printed white wraps with a turquoise glassine keyhole in the front wrap revealing part of a visual poem & with a black-and-white illustration on the rear wrap. The wraps are very lightly soiled & spotted & somewhat darkened along the spine. Unnumbered pages of visual poetry, the first piece in the book consisting of 10 leaves, each cut to a different width to reveal part of the following leaf. Some bottom page corners are lightly creased. Very good.

An introductory note by "Amendant Hardiker. March 1989" explains that "Wakest Aims?" is "a composite assembling of styles of visual information..a collaboration between Liz Was and Miekal And (Madison, WI) and Michael Helsem (Dallas, TX)..They have deliberately contrasted the hand-drawn with the computer-generated, the cave painting with the graffiti. Language has been twisted to form palindromes and anagrams. Photos have materialized out of nowhere to be assigned neologisms. Glyphs have been etched into paper & slogans have been coined. Such is the nature of Wakest activity... Very good .

Keywords: VISUAL POETRY; FLOATING CONCRETE OCTOPUS; LIZ WAS; MIEKAL AND; MICHAEL HELSEM; WAKEST AIMS? KIND LAW AND ZEAL!; COLLABORATION; COMPOSITE; COMPUTER-GENERATED; HAND-DRAWN; LANGUAGE; VISUAL INFORMATION; CONCRETE POETRY; CONCEPTUAL ART.

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