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Title

Introduction à une nouvelle poésie et à une nouvelle musique.

Author

Isou, Isidore.

Publication

[Paris] : Gallimard, [1947]

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Details

Additional Authors

Ferrua, Pietro

Description

414 pages; 19 cm

Summary

• Isidore ​ Isou’s first book, which ​Gallimard at first rejected, immediately after Isou’s arrival in Paris, but which the ​ firm ​soon thereafter ​ accepted ​, as​ he ​became notorious for disrupting and denouncing events that honored other writers and artists.
• Contains Isou’s manifesto of Lettrist poetry; the latter portion is printed on coated paper and prints a number of visual and sound poems, including the text of “Cris p​our 5,000,000 de Juifs Egorges,” his renowned poem about the Holocaust.

Subjects

• French poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Literature, Experimental > France​
• Music > France > History and criticism
• Experimental poetry, French
• Lettrism > Sources

Genre/Form

• Experimental poetry, French
• Literature, Experimental – France​

Note

• In printed wrappers.
• Described as third edition on title page.
• Lettrism exerted a strong influence on Situationism, which in turn influenced the American counterculture and avant-garde.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll Isou I58 1947

LCCN

48012373

OCLC

339557

Author

Isou, Isidore.

Title

Introduction à une nouvelle poésie et à une nouvelle musique.

Imprint

[Paris] : Gallimard, [1947]

Local Note

Berg Collection copy, formerly belonging to the anarchist and scholar Pietro Ferrua, missing over half of the back strip, and extensively chipped, with several cello-tape repairs.

With scattered check marks and underlining throughout the text.

Access

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Added Author

Ferrua, Pietro Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Isou I58 1947