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KOSTELANETZ, Richard (ed.).

Text-Sound Texts.

NY: William Morrow & Co., 1980. First edition. Cloth-backed boards. 442pp.

The first anthology of sound poetry to be published in the US, devoted exclusively to American and Canadian works, including poems, scores, scripts, and performance instructions as well as manifestos and critical essays, plus an introduction by the book’s editor that provides a historical and international survey.

Includes work by Brion Gysin; Charles Amirkhanian; John Cage; Jackson Mac Low; Armand Schwerner; Jack Kerouac; Dick Higgins; Philip Glass; John Giorno; Lawrence Weiner; Mary Ellen Solt; Philip Corner; Claes Oldenburg; Bill Bissett; Allen Ginsberg; Emmett Williams; Gertrude Stein; Eugene Jolas; and many more.

Corners lightly bumped, o/w Near Fine in price-clipped dw.

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