Volume consists of two parts: the republication of original text (Amsterdam: In-Out Productions, 1972) reset and printed on cream stock, followed by twenty-first century essays, commentaries, and elaborations printed on blue stock. "Published by In-Out Productions, Reguliersgracht 103, Amsterdam. 1972. Republished by Ugly Duckling Presse, 232 Third Street, Brooklyn. 2020."--Title page. "Design and typesetting by Don't Look Now! with assistance from C. Bain. The type is Old Style 7 Std. Books printed offset and bound at McNaughton & Gunn. Covers printed letterpress at Ugly Duckling Presse.--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-130).
Contents:
Sonnet(s) : Borrowed -- Capital -- Underlined -- Parenthetic -- Quoted -- Questioned -- Exclamatory -- Suspense -- Cautious -- Footnote* -- Untitled -- Colloquial -- Religious -- Echoed -- Dated -- Orthodox -- Dramatic -- Timed -- Letter -- Packed -- Coupon -- Split -- Syllogism -- Musical -- Stuttered -- Germanic -- Hispanicized -- Egotistic -- Modernized -- Disguised -- Prose -- Alphabetical -- Mirrored -- Vertical -- Explicit -- Annotated -- Exhaustive -- Telegraphic -- Dictated -- Shortened -- Vowel -- Incomplete -- Interrupted -- Famous / Ulises Carrión ; Essays, commentaries, and elaborations : Rose of the Sonnets / Verónica Gerber Bicecci (translated by Christina MacSweeney). Shadow boxing / Mónica de la Torre -- "Amsterdam has not discovered the mimeograph yet:" book production technologies and the forging of communities / Felipe Becerra -- Resurrection sonnet / India Johnson -- Borrowed sonnets / Annette Gilbert (translated by Shane Anderson) -- The new art of reading books / Michalis Pichler -- Rose of the Sonnets / Verónica Gerber Bicecci (translated by Christina MacSweeney).
Summary:
"Ulises Carrión left Mexico City for Europe in 1970 and eventually settled in Amsterdam, where, in 1975, he wrote his manifesto, "The New Art of Making Books" and founded the legendary bookshop-gallery, Other Books and So, a hub for mail art activity and one of the first venues dedicated to artists' publications. In 1972, Carrión took a single poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and churned it through 44 typographic and procedural permutations. The publication of Sonnet(s), one of the first of his influential "bookworks," signaled a departure from Carrión's earlier writing practice. A 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). The present republication of Sonnet(s) is 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. Shane Anderson), India Johnson, Michalis Pichler, Heriberto Yépez."--Publisher's website, viewed July 6, 2021.
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