'From A to Z' - Johanna Drucker (1977)

Pages from the 1977 edition of 'From A to Z.'
"'Quick, tell me the differences among Olson, Williams, and Pound.' Placed at the bottom of the 'Introduction,' this line speaks volumes about the encounter between modern poetry and print publication that is documented in the bibliography-a-clé, From A to Z. Composed of letterpress type, forty-eight drawers of individual metal letters each used once to form a text that made sense, the book contains twenty-six (each lettered alphabetically) poems attributed to poets who had been part of the Bay Area in the mid-1970s (Leslie Scalapino, Ron Silliman, Clark Coolidge, Tom Raworth, Stephen Rodefer, Geoff Young, Betsy Davids, David Bromige, Tom Clark, etc.). ..."
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Johanna Drucker: Retrospective Celebrates 40 Years of Print Works
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