Dufrene, Francois.

Texticules Ou Fodrakjlanot Sella (Declarations de Futilite Publique).

(Issy-les-Moulineaux, France): Cahiers Loques (1983). (1983). - Small quarto [10-3/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], soft covers bound in pictorial black-and-white wraps. There is some spotting to the rear wrap & very light spotting to the margins of the front wrap. [12] pages. 1 full-page facsimile & a black-and-white illustration. Very good. First edition. A publisher's note explains that "Texticules" is an unedited text intended for publication by Cahiers Loques. The manuscript, which was sometimes hard to decipher, was transcribed by Ginette Dufrene. Scarce. Very good .

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Book number: 10219

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: VISUAL POETRY; FRENCH; FRANCOIS DUFRENE; TEXTICULES OU FODRAKJLANOT SELLA; CAHIERS LOQUES; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; MODERN; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY.

Duric, Dubravka.

Priroda Meseca, Priroda Zene: Devet Metapoema.

(Novi Sad, Serbia: Matica Srpska), (1989). (1989). - Octavo, softcover bound in folding pictorial wrappers. The wraps are slightly rubbed. 47 pages plus colophon, including concrete & visual poems. Very good. Limited edition of 500 copies. No. 159 in the series Biblioteka Prva Knjiga. The text is in Serbian. Dubravka Duric was born in 1961 in Dubrovnik, Croatia and lives in Belgrade, Serbia. She is a poet, an essayist, a performer and a translator of American poetry. The present volume was her first book. Among her other poetry collections are "Traps" [1995] and "Cosmopolitan Alphabet" [1995]. She is an editor of ProFemina and lectures at the Center for Women's Studies in Belgrade. She is the editor, with Misko Suvokovic, of "Impossible Histories Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991 [MIT Press, 2004]. Scarce. Very good .

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Book number: 35785

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: LITERATURE; SERBIAN LITERATURE; POETRY; VISUAL POETRY; CONCRETE POETRY; WOMEN'S STUDIES; SERBIAN AUUTHOR; DUBRAVKA DURIC; PRIRODA MESECA, PRIRODA ZENE: DEVET METAPOEMA; ESSAYIST; PROFEMINA; CENTER FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES; LIMITED EDITION.

Glasmeier, Michael. (b. 1951).

Texte Ober Texte.

Siegen: Experimentelle Texte, 1987. 1987. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. 30 & [1] pages. Fine. Experimentelle Texte nr.10. Series edited by K. Riha und S. J. Schmidt The text is in German. Fine .

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Book number: 94625

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: VISUAL POETRY; CONCRETE POETRY; MICHAEL GLASMEIER; TEXTE OBER TEXTE; EXPERIMENTELLE TEXTE NR. 10; K. RIHA; S. J. SCHMIDT; GERMAN SERIES.

Grzesczak, Marian

Naczynie Powazne

(Warszawa [Poland]): Czytelnik, 1967. 1967. (Warszawa [Poland]): Czytelnik, 1967. 1967. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wrappers in a dust wrapper. The edges of the wraps are slightly darkened with some light offsetting from the dust jacket. There is some very minor soiling to the dust jacket & the edges of its panels are slightly darkened. 65 & [3] pages. Very good.

First edition.

There are several examples of visual poetry in this collection. The text is in Polish. Very good .

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Book number: 29204

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: VISUAL POETRY; POLISH POETRY; POLISH AUTHOR; MARIAN Grzesczak; NACZYNIE POWAZNE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Higgins, Dick.

Of Celebration of Morning: A Polysemiotic Fiction. [Signed by Dick Higgins].

New York, St. Paul, and West Glover, VT: Printed editions, 1980. 1980. New York, St. Paul, and West Glover, VT: Printed editions, 1980. 1980. Very good. - Folio, 16-7/8 inches high by 11-3/8 inches wide, Hardcover, bound in natural cream buckram titled in gilt on the spine and titled in green with a portrait in gilt on the front cover and also illustrated with a tree branch in green on the back cover. The book is housed in the original acetate dust wrapper. [96] unnumbered pages, with illustrations of photographs & sketches, mostly nude portraits of a young man identified as "Justin", illustrating panels of poetry and text laid out across the pages. There are some light ripples to the green endpapers and faint minor foxing to the cloth and to the fore edge of the book. Near fine. The first trade edition, one of "900 casebound but unsigned copies". This copy was nonetheless boldly signed in person by Dick Higgins on the title page. Very good .

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Book number: 98296

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: LITERATURE; VISUAL POETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; ART; SKETCHES; OF CELEBRATION OF MORNING: A POLYSEMIOTIC FICTION; MALE NUDE; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; GAY STUDIES; POEMS; SIGNED; FIRST TRADE EDITION; 1ST EDITION; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; 20TH CENTURY; TWEN

Hollander, John

Types of Shape

New Haven, CT and London, U.K.: Yale University Press, (1991). (1991). New Haven, CT and London, U.K.: Yale University Press, (1991). (1991). Very good. - Small quarto [approximately 9-1/4 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed wrappers with a small cat-shaped poem on each wrap. There is some very minor soiling to the wraps. xxiv & [1] pages and 35 "shaped poems" with titles & brief comments on the facing pages. Near fine.

New, expanded edition, with an introduction and notes by the poet. Very good .

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Book number: 27705

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: VISUAL POETRY; PATTERN POEMS; SHAPED POEMS; POET; JOHN HOLLANDER; TYPES OF SHAPE; NEW EXPANDED EDITION.

Howell, Anthony

Hot Damn: A Poetic Rage

[1973]. [1973]. [1973]. [1973]. Very good. - sc Quarto, mechanically reproduced typescript bound between 2 black stiff paper cover sheets with a metal clasp. There is some rubbing to the front cover sheet along the spine & the top third of the rear cover sheet is slightly faded. ii & 80 hand-numbered leaves. Very good.

Private edition of a work of sound poetry by British poet and performance artist Anthony Howell. Most probably created around 1973 when Howell participated in the International Writers' Workshop at Iowa City, Iowa.

Rare. Very good .

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Book number: 26618

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: VISUAL POETRY; SOUND POETRY; CONCRETE POETRY; LITERATURE; POET; PERFORMANCE ARTIST; BRITISH; ANTHONY HOWELL; POETIC RAGE; PRIVATE EDITION; UNPUBLISHED SCRIPT; MODERN; RARE; PRIVATE EDITION.

Howell, Anthony (b. 1945)

Oslo: A Tantric Ode

circa [1973]. [1973]. circa [1973]. [1973]. Good. - sc Quarto, mechanically reproduced 8-1/2 inch by 11-1/2 inch typescript consisting of title, dedication page & 40 hand-numbered leaves. 2 holes are punched in the left margin of the typescript & it is bound with a plastic clasp into a 13-3/4 inch by 9 inch folder with a clear plastic front cover sheet, a gray stiff paper rear cover sheet & a black plastic backing. The title page is darkened & lightly creased. The bottom corners of the dedication page & the top corners of the remaining leaves are lightly creased, with some staining to the verso of the last leaf. The front cover sheet of the folder is darkened with purple discoloration & the rear cover sheet is soiled, chipped & lightly creased. Good.

Rare pre-publication copy. The poem was most probably created around 1973 when Howell was a participant in the International Writers' Workshop at Iowa City, Iowa. It was published in London by Calder & Boyars in 1975. Good .

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Book number: 26617

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: SOUND POETRY; CONCRETE POETRY; VISUAL POETRY; LITERATURE; POETRY; POEM; POET; PERFORMANCE ARTIST; BRITISH; ANTHONY HOWELL; OSLO: A TANTRIC ODE; PRE-PUBLICATION COPY.

Jansen, Johannes.

Fundzeug: Chamaleon. Text-Bild-Kombinationen 1987-90.

Siegen: Karl Riha und S. J. Schmidt, 1991. 1991. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wrappers. 33 & [1] pages plus 1-page series catalog. Profuse visual poems in black & white. Near fine.

First edition.

Number 25 in the series "Experimentelle texte". The text is in German.

Johannes Jansen [b. 1966] trained as an engraver, began a course in advertising art which he never completed, and now works as a freelance writer. In the 1980s he became part of the avant-garde literary movement in East Berlin and his books, which were often a combination of words and graphics, gained attention in the literary world. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Anna-Seghers Prize and the Kaernten County Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Awards. Fine .

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Book number: 35834

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: VISUAL POETRY; EXPERIMENTELLE TEXTE NR. 25; FUNDZEUG: CHAMALEON. TEXT-BILD-KOMBINATIONEN 1987-90; VISUAL POEMS; GERMAN AUTHOR; JOHANNES JANSEN; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Kempton, Karl; Essary, Loris

Ko (in Score 4. Edited by Crag Hill, Bill Dimichele and Laurie Schneider)

(Oakland, CA: Score), n.d. [1980s]. n.d. [1980s]. (Oakland, CA: Score), n.d. [1980s]. n.d. [1980s]. Fine. - Quarto, soft cover bound in pictorial gray wraps. Title & [31] pages, including 29 pages of black-and-white visual poetry. Near fine. Fine .

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Book number: 5187

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: VISUAL POETRY; CONCRETE POETRY; KARL KEMPTON; LORIS ESSARY; PERIODICAL; SCORE.

Kennedy, Jr. Roderick.

Eleven. [Signed by the Poet. ]

San Francisco: Toltec Press, (1969). (1969). - 8vo, B&W decorative wraps. The wraps are soiled with foxing to the top edges. [78] pp. The contents are bright and near fine. Very good.

Signed by the author on the title page. Good .

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Book number: 93

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: CONCRETE POETRY; MODERN LITERATURE; CONCEPTUAL; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH-CENTURY; SIGNED; RODERICK KENNEDY, JR.; ELEVEN; SMALL PRESS.

Kilic, Ilse; Widhalm, Fritz.

In Den Laufern Ist Das Abenteuer.

Siegen: Experimentelle Texte, 1992. 1992. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed mauve wraps. The bottom corner of the rear wrap is slightly creased. 29 pages plus publisher's catalog. Near fine. Experimentelle Texte nr. 29. Edited by K. Riha and S. J. Schmidt, The minimal text is in German. Laid in are a 1992 press release from Verlag Peter Lang in Frankfurt announcing the publication of a bibliography of Friederike Mayrocker; and two pamphlets: a 1992 catalog from Gertraud Scholz Verlag and another from Uwe Warnke Verlag. Very good .

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Book number: 94649

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: VISUAL POETRY; CONCRETE POETRY; IN DEN LAUFERN IST DAS ABENTEUER; ILSE KILIC; FRITZ WIDHALM; EXPERIMENTELLE TEXTE NR. 29; K. RIHA; S. J. SCHMIDT; GERMAN SERIES.

(Kostelanetz, Richard; Duberstein, Helen; Lev, Donald).

Phoebus: A Magazine of Verse and Art. Vol. 2, No. 1.

Hampton, VA: Phoebus Magazine, 1984. 1984. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial red & white wraps. There is light spotting to the wraps. 36 pages. Black-and-white illustrations & visual poems. Very good.

Among the contents are visual and concrete poetry. Very good .

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Book number: 11612

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; POETS; VISUAL POETRY; CONCRETE POETRY; PERIODICAL; PHOEBUS MAGAZINE; ILLUSTRATIONS; ARTWORK; DONALD LEV; HELEN DUBERSTEIN; RICHARD KOSTELANETZ.

Lengelle, Martial.

Odes.

Paris: Editions A. Silvaire, (1983). (1983). - Small quarto bound in printed tan wrappers. The spine is torn & chipped. [ii] & [42] leaves, including 32 leaves of visual texts. Fine internally. Very good.

Collection "Poesie Spatiale".

Inscribed to Dick Higgins by the author. Laid in are a handwritten card with Lengelle's name and address on it, and a carbon copy of an ANS from Dick Higgins thanking Lengelle for sending him the book. Good .

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Book number: 321

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; VISUAL POETRY; LITERATURE; POEM.

(Bukowski, Charles; Porter, Bern; et al). Malone, Marvin; editor

One's Wings on View. (the Wormwood Review, Volume 11, Number 1, Issue Forty One)

Stockton, CA: The Wormwood Review Press, 1971. 1971. Stockton, CA: The Wormwood Review Press, 1971. 1971. Fine. - 8vo, pictorial ochre wraps (lightly soiled). 39 pp. & colophon, including a 16 pp. insert of visual poetical texts by Bern Porter, printed in black on golden-yellow stock. Fine.

Of a total edition of 700 numbered copies, this is one of only 30 copies additionally numbered and signed by Bern Porter. Includes Bern Porter's "Chap Five".

Laid in is a note from Porter to Dick Higgins: "Dick, Here's what Wormie did. I sent 6- 10 xerox on a page. They selected what they wanted. Then returned all xerox pages. I sent loose laid what they wanted. They laid out."

NB: This issue of The Wormwood Review also contains the poem "Looking for Jack Micheline" by Charles Bukowski. Fine .

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Book number: 1145

Catalogue: Visual Poetry

Keywords: VISUAL POETRY; MODERN LITERATURE; CONCEPTUAL; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH-CENTURY; BERN PORTER; LIMITED EDITION; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; DICK HIGGINS; SMALL PRESS; MARVIN MALONE; CHAP FIVE; CHARLES BUKOWSKI; PERIOSIDAL; POEMS; VERSE; LOOKING FOR JACK MICHELINE; PE