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Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), inventor of his own personal branch of Dadaism called "Merz," is best known for his collages and for his monumental constructions called Merzbau. But Schwitters' stated goal was "to erase the boundaries between the arts" - he said his poems were "a kind of drawing" while his collages "demand to be read." This collection, culled from five volumes of Schwitters' writings published in Germany, introduces the total work of art that is Merz via Schwitters' words rather than images. Included is the complete text for the "Ur Sonata," which, as renowned poets/editors/translators Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris comment, "is to sound poetry what Joyce's Ulysses is to the twentieth-century novel."
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), inventor of his own personal branch of Dadaism called "Merz," is best known for his collages and for his monumental constructions called Merzbau. But Schwitters' stated goal was "to erase the boundaries between the arts" - he said his poems were "a kind of drawing" while his collages "demand to be read." This collection, culled from five volumes of Schwitters' writings published in Germany, introduces the total work of art that is Merz via Schwitters' words rather than images. Included is the complete text for the "Ur Sonata," which, as renowned poets/editors/translators Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris comment, "is to sound poetry what Joyce's Ulysses is to the twentieth-century novel."
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- Writing Through: Translations and Variations (Wesleyan Poetry) by Jerome Rothenberg in Back Matter
- Modernism, 1910-1945: Image to Apocalypse (Transitions) by Jane Goldman in Back Matter
- Kurt Schwitters Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery (Building Studies, 5) by Elizabeth Burns Gamard on page 78