ESSAYING ESSAYS

ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF EXPOSITION.

 

edited by Richard Kostelanetz.

 

Milano & New York, Out Of London Press Incorporated, september 1975. ISBN o-815o-o7o2-7.

 

6 x 8-3/4, 132 sheets tan newsprint folded to 528 pp in 16 signatures (1st of 4 sheets, the rest of 8 with 4 double-gatefold leaves tipped to right of centersheets in signatures 3, 4, 7 & 1o), sewn pearl ivory in 7 doublestitches & glued in grey heavy mayfair card wrappers, all except rear cover & 1o pp (1st leaf, iv, viii, xii, 1o, 46o, 478>48o) printed black offset with orange spine & addition to front cover.

 

cover unacknowledged.

135 contributors ID'd:

Vito Acconci, Adele Aldridge, Carl Andre, Bruce Andrews, W.H.Auden, Jane Augustine, Milton Babbitt, JohnBaldessari, Stephen Bann, Iain Baxter, Ingrid Baxter, Bill Bissett, Jean-François Bory, N.Bourbaki, Joe Brainard, George Brecht, Bob Brown, Donald Burgy, Kenneth Burke, William Burroughs, Armando Busick, John Cage, Steve Cannon, José Luis Castillejo, Marvin Cohen, John Robert Colombo, Clark Coolidge, Don Corrigan, Jean-Jacques Cory, Robin Crozier, Willem DeKooning, Wally Depew, Albert Drake, Marcel Duchamp, Carol Emshwiller, Raymond Federman, Peter Finch, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Quentin Fiore, Henry Flynt, Richard Foreman, Hugh Fox, R.Buckminster Fuller, Kenneth Gangemi, Alberto Giacometti, Michael Gibbs, Abraham Linoln Gillespie, C.P.Graham, Dan Graham, Brion Gysin, Edward T.Hall, Lawrence Halprin, Bela Hap, Ihab Hassan, Bernard Heidsieck, A.Eva Hesse, Juan Hidalgo, Dick Higgins, David Hlynsky, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Douglas Huebler, Ruth Jacoby, Françoise Janicot, Donald Judd, Herman Kahn, Lionel Kearns, Helen Keller, [-?-] Keppler, Bliem Kern, Alison Knowles, Gyula Kodolanyi, Jiri Kolar, Richard Kostelanetz, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, E.Lagomarsino, Timothy Leary, Claude-Nicalas Ledoux, Wyndham Lewis, Sol LeWitt, Christian Lindow, Lucy R.Lippard, El Lissitzky, Raymond Lull, Richard Lyons, George Maciunas, Babette Mangolte, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, J.Marks, Barry McCallion, Michael McClure, Howard McCord, Marshall McLuhan, Richard Meltzer, Edward Mendelson, Michael Metz, Eugenio Miccini, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Bernard J.Muller-Thym, Bruce Nauman, Al Neil, N.E.Thing Co, bpNichol, Claes Oldenburg, Charles Olson, Michael Joseph Phillips, Adrian Piper, Edgar Allan Poe, Jackson Pollock, Bern Porter, Donald Porter, Jonathan Price, Erwin Raisz, Robert Rauschenberg, Franco Ravedone, Ishmael Reed, Ad Reinhardt, David Rubinstein, Edward Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, Richard Serra, Jonathan Sisson, G.P.Skratz, Phil Smith, Sidney Goodsir Smith, Robert Smithson, Alan Sondheim, Philip Steadman, Gertrude Stein, Darko Suvin, George L.Trager, U"USCO", Carl Van Vechten, Bernar Venet, Ruth Vollmer, Anthony J.Wiener.

 

Nichol contributes:

i) probable systems 3 (research paper, pp.199>2oo; in 2 parts:

–1) unresolved 9/10/71 4:37 a.m.

–2) ERROR NOTED (prose; with quote from (i1) above))

ii) probable systems 8 (research paper; pp.2oo>2o1; in 2 parts:

–1) "given"

–2) COMMENTARY (prose))

iii) letter to a loved one (concrete poem, p.?]

 

also includes:

iv) bp NICHOL, by Richard Kostelanetz (prose contributor note, p.467)

Done