Found Poems by Porter, Bern - 1972

UsedVeryGood. Noticeably scuffed/discolored w/ minor inscribing. Text is mostly clean & readable.

Nightboat Books, 2011-06-14. Paperback. Good.

Nightboat Books, 2011. First edition, first printing. Fine and bright illustrated stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Beautiful production with the poet's every use of graphic poetry and design as well as attending to his science background. Gift quality

Nightboat Books, 2011-06-14. Paperback. Used:Good.

Millerton, NY: Something Else Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, ca. 320pp, printed wrappers. A classic and chunky collection of Found Poem collages by avant-garde poet and publisher Bern Porter, printed one to a page in benevolent profusion. Unmarked copy from the collection of Dick Higgins period associate Opal Louis Nations, a little foxing to opening interior spread and a little reading wear and sunning.

Something Else Press, 1972. First edition. This is the Something Else Press edition from 1972, first edition. Porter the ideologist, and we have Porter the atomic scientist plus social planning expert and Porter the artist. All come together as Porter the poet. These found poems may be found anywhere. The author coming at us full force on the front cover out of the Maine wilderness. Like new tall pictorial stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Clean profusely illustrated text. With an added benefit of coming from a classic groundbreaking small press (Something Else). Gift quality

Something Else Press, 1972. First edition. Porter the ideologist, and we have Porter the atomic scientist plus social planning expert and Porter the artist. All come together as Porter the poet. These found poems may be found anywhere The author coming us at full force on the front cover out of the Maine wilderness. Like new tall pictorial stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Clean profusely illustrated text. With an added benefit of coming from a classic groundbreaking small press (Something Else). Gift quality

[Millerton, NY]: Something Else Press, [1972]., 1972. 4to. pp. [384]. wrs. First Paperback Edition..

Something Else Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good.

NY: Something Else Press, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Quarto (11" x 8.75"); unpaginated; full red cloth, red topstain, in dust jacket. Signed, dated, and inscribed by Porter on the half-title to Gerard [Dombrowski], founder of Abyss Publications, who issued a number of Porter's (and also Something Else Press founder Dick Higgins') works. Laid in are a cardstock announcement about the book, as well as a business card-sized "compliments of the editors" card, with hand-corrected mailing address for Something Else Press. Arguably Porter's best known work, Found Poems consists of images and text culled from mass-media--recipes, diagrams, advertisements, graphics--and rearranged in a suggestive manner that resists easy interpretation. A very good copy. Softening and light sunning at spine ends; slight spine-twist. Unclipped jacket is lightly sun-faded along the spine panel, with short closed tears at the tips and curling and slight… Read More