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Two pages from "alphabet"Hansjörg Mayer
Editions Hansjörg Mayer
1962-3
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"Hansjörg Mayer’s alphabet is a sequence of twenty-six visual poems, each one focusing on a single letter of the alphabet. In this minimalist work, multiple instances of individual letterforms combine to create abstract graphic compositions – ideograms unencumbered by ideas – actualizing a purely formal rhythm of black strokes and white counters." - Guy Bennett
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Guy runs Mindmade Books, a small press publishing chapbooks of modern and contemporary poetry. With cooperation from Hansjorg Mayer, he republished "alphabet". Among the more than fifty titles that have appeared to date are works by internationally renowned poets, several “first collections,” and occasional reprints of little-known or long-out-of-print texts...
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