Research Catalog

Title

Found poems / Bern Porter ; [foreword: David Byrne ; introduction: Joel A. Lipman; afterword: Mark Melnicove].

Author

Porter, Bern, 1911-2004

Publication

Callicoon, N.Y. : Nightboat Books c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lipman, Joel, 1942-
• Byrne, David, 1952-
• Melnicove, Mark
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

1 v. (unpaged) : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

On the eve of Bern Porter's Centennial, his classic text, Found Poems, comes roaring back into print in a handsome new edition featuring two essays contextualizing his remarkable life and work. As Dick Higgins said, "Porter's Found Poems have the same seminal position as Duchmap's objets trouvees." This book collects Porter's strongest "Founds," his combinations of mass-media images and text that he used to reflect American culture as in a funny-house mirror: twisted but true.

Alternative Title

Found Bern Porter poems

Subject

• Porter, Bern, 1911-2004
• Found poetry, American
• Found objects (Art)
• Visual poetry, American
• Concrete poetry, American

Genre/Form

Concrete poems.

Note

• Reprint; first published in 1972 (Millerton, N.Y. : Something Else Press).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780982264591
• 0982264593

OCLC

• 609537824
• SCSB-11842836

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library