{"title":"Concrete Poetry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"capitolo-zero","title":"Capitolo Zero","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGiovanna Sandri\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA key figure—and one of the few women—in the Italian neo-avanguardia movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Giovanna Sandri (1923–2002) was renowned for the fearless experimentation of her visual poetry, which has been featured in numerous Italian collections and journals since the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally published in 1969 by Lerici Editore in Rome,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCapitolo Zero\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas Sandri’s first book-length work. Composed with dry-transfer lettering instead of a typewriter, it is an experiment in new reading operations. On every page, Sandri dissolves poetry into single letters and punctuation marks—the atomic particles of language—rearranging them in new combinations that preclude conventional meaning. Reading the book is a game for the eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJanani \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAmbikapathy has written a short review of the book for Poetry Foundation, which can be found \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/harriet-books\/reviews\/160548\/capitolo-zero\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183264809290,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/31SBLF0MnQL._SL1000.jpg?v=1697550250"},{"product_id":"the-matrix","title":"The Matrix","description":"\u003cp\u003eN. H. Pritchard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA bold, pioneering, \"free-souled\" and long-rare classic of concrete poetry, available for the first time in 50 years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginally published by Doubleday and Company in 1970, N.H. Pritchard's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was one of a tiny handful of books of concrete poetry published in America by a major publishing house. Sadly, the book was given little support and was not promoted, and it has long been out of print. However, it remains a cherished item for fans of poetry due to its unique composition, and difficult but rewarding poetics. Forcing the reader to straddle the line between reading and viewing, the book features visual poems that predate the experiments of the Language poets, including words that are exploded into their individual letters, and columns of text that ride the edge of the page. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePraised as a \"FREE souled\" work by Allen Ginsberg, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e feels as fresh and necessary today as when it was first published. This new facsimile edition, copublished by Primary Information and Ugly Duckling Presse, makes the book available to a new generation of readers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183378841930,"sku":"","price":22.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Matrix_Pritchard_Cover-Promo-662x1024.jpg?v=1697640145"},{"product_id":"dog-ear","title":"Dog Ear","description":"\u003cp\u003eErica Baum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe concept of\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDog Ear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis simple and straightforward: dog-eared pages of mass-market paperbacks are photographed to isolate the small diagonally bisected squares or rectangles of text. The photographs are formally quite neutral and sedate—cursorily reminiscent of Alber's \"Homage to the Square\" series of prints, paintings and tapestries—but the text also demands attention and it is what allows or coaxes the viewer to linger. In his introduction to the book, Kenneth Goldsmith asks: \"Do we see them or do we read them? If we choose to read them, how should we read? Across the fold? Through it? Around it? If we choose to look at Baum's pictures, how should we see them? As artistic photographs? Documentation? 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The publication of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSonnet(s)\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the first of his influential 'bookworks', signaled a departure from Carrión’s earlier writing practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA pioneer in conceptualizing the artists book, mail art, and what today might be called social practice, Carrión, who died in 1989, has only recently been recognized with a retrospective exhibit at Reina Sofia (Madrid) and Museo Jumex (Mexico City).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present republication of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSonnet(s)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis supplemented by new essays on Carrión’s bookworks by contemporary artists, writers, and scholars from Mexico, Europe, and the US: Felipe Becerra, Mónica de la Torre, Verónica Gerber Bicecci (tr. Christina MacSweeney), Annette Gilbert (tr. 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[...] Arguing that if in the “old art the writer writes texts [ … ] in the new art the writer makes books,” Carrión urged writers and artists to take advantage of the possibilities that new printing technologies such as the mimeograph had to offer, to bypass the market, and to form alternate distribution networks by fostering communities of likeminded practitioners.' – Monica de la Torre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183393849674,"sku":"","price":22.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Sonnets-Carrion-New-Promo-Cover-300dpi-728x1024.png?v=1698254439"},{"product_id":"wordtomydead","title":"wordtomydead","description":"\u003cp\u003eSadé Powell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ewordtomydead\u003c\/em\u003e is a practice in black feminist poethics. using a 1940’s mechanical typewriter, sadé mucks up orthography to investigate disorienting practices of refusal and wade through the fundamental feltness and unintelligibility of thingness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe concrete poetics deployed on\/with\/against the typewriter serve as scores for plenum sociality: your head stretches to the page, eyes squint, tongues stutter as you read the cascading letters falling off the margins you race to find understanding to rest on. you may find yourself spinning in circles, zigzagging across the page, deciphering what you can and being jolted by the static of what recedes from you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'roaring through this project is an embodied feeling of black study, an illegible, unspeakable, and unreadable social aesthetic practice.\"to want to riot so much more than matter wants to matter so riotously, so differently, so invaluably, that it runs over itself in tremble, buzz and moan. neither the book nor the very idea of the grammar book can hold it back. flow clots to spill at broken natural tempi. surfacing abounds the letter’s natural twists and turns. what we get is supernatural flower. no petition for recovery, then a gig; just verbal streetlife in the common wind repeating: \u003cem\u003ewordtomydead\u003c\/em\u003e, by sadé powell.' – Fred Moten\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183403417930,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/wordtomydead_cover-797x1024.png?v=1698254324"},{"product_id":"permutations","title":"Permutations","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrion Gysin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis volume collects, for the first time, all of Brion Gysin’s “permutated poems.” Written between 1958 and 1982, these poems are composed from a brief phrase or sentence whose words are exhaustively or almost exhaustively permuted over the course of each poem. Gysin wrote the texts manually at first, although later, in collaboration with programmer Ian Sommerville, he would generate permutation poems with the help of a computer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere were several versions of many of the permutation poems, which were also presented in multiple media; some were published in books, while others exist only as audio recordings. Many of them derive from a 1961 BBC radio commission, “The Permutated Poems of Brion Gysin,” in which readings of the texts were recorded, cut up, modulated, and overlapped. The present collection brings together all published and—where transcribable—unpublished versions of each poem, as well as a short expository text by Gysin. The poems are organized in chronological order by first publication or first recording, with further versions of each poem grouped together in chronological order immediately after the initial version. 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Nancy Perloff, the curator of an important Concrete Poetry exhibition at the Getty Research Institute, includes examples from the little-known Japanese concretists and the Wiener Gruppe—groups that, together with the Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos and the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, have engaged with the most subtle possibilities of language itself—while also incorporating key poems by Eugen Gomringer, Dieter Roth, Henri Chopin, and others and including contemporary contributions by Cia Rinne and Susan Howe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePerloff’s anthology presents individual poems, reproduced in their original languages, together with lively commentaries that explicate and contextualize the work, allowing readers to discover the intricacy of poems that some have dismissed as simple, even trivial, texts. 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Active in New York’s downtown art, film, and theater scenes in the 1960s and early ’70s, he taught writing for some time at the New School for Social Research, and published only one other book of poetry: the collection The Matrix: Poems 1960–1970 (Doubleday, 1970).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePritchard’s writing is visually and typographically unconventional. His methodical arrangements of letters and words disrupt normative optical flows and lexical cohesion, modulating the speeds of reading and looking by splitting, spacing, and splicing linguistic objects. His manipulation of text and codex resembles that of concrete poetry and conceptual writing, traditions from which literary history has mostly excluded him. Pritchard also worked with sound, and his dynamic readings—documented, among few other places, on the album New Jazz Poets (Folkways Records, 1967)—make themselves heard on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘EECCHHOOEESS’ exemplifies Pritchard’s formal and conceptual sensibilities. A book of ascents and descents, mirrors and doublings, opaque signs, and stuttering repetition, ‘EECCHHOOEESS’ provides an entryway into the work of a poet whose scant writings have only recently achieved wider recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47313911578954,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/2022_San-Serriffe_2382-710x1024.jpg?v=1700165225"},{"product_id":"the-mundus","title":"The Mundus","description":"\u003cp\u003eN.H. 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