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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 Duchamp's objets trouvées. 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.

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Found Poems

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    A Paperback / softback by Bern Porter, Mark Melnicove, Joel A. Lipman

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      Publisher Nightboat Books
      Published 28 July 2011
      ISBN-13 9780982264591
      978-0982264591
      ISBN-10 0982264593

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 Duchamp's objets trouvées. 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.

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      “Here is the hidden literature of the 20th century. Hidden in plain sight.”—David Byrne

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