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Works cited and further reading

Apollinaire, Guillaume. Calligrammes: poèmes de la paix et de la guerre 1913-1916 . Preface by Michel Butor. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1995 (initially 1918), published posthumously.

Boyle, Kay, et. al. "The Revolution of the Word." transition: an international quarterly for creative experiment . Ed. Eugene Jolas. No. 16-17, Spring-Summer (June 1929): 13. One-page proclamation signed by Kay Boyle, Whit Burnett, Hart Crane, Caresse Crosby, Harry Crosby, Martha Foley, Stuart Gilbert, A. L. Gillespie, Leigh Hoffman, Eugene Jolas, Elliot Paul, Douglas Rigby, Theo Rutra, Robert Sage, Harold J. Salemson, and Laurence Vail.

Boyle, Kay. "In Memoriam, Bob Brown." The Village Voice (August 26, 1959): 4. This issue of the Voice is commonly available on microfilm spools (Wooster, Ohio: Bell&Howell).

Brown, Robert Carlton. “Eyes on the Half Shell," Blindman , No. 2 (May 1917): 3. Also see Brown's "Resolution Made at Bronx Park" on the same page.

Brown, Bob (he no longer published under Robert Carlton Brown). "Experiment," one page of hand-written poetic commentary on the revolution of the word with visual poetry. transition: an international quarterly for creative experiment . Ed. Eugene Jolas. No. 18, Fall issue (November 1929): 208.

---. 1430-1930 . Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929; a later facsimile edition published with new title as Brown, Bob. 1450-1950 . New York: Jargon Books, 1959.

---. The Readies . Bad Ems: Roving Eye Press, 1930.

---. "The Readies," in a section titled "Revolution of the Word." transition: an international quarterly for creative experiment . Ed. Eugene Jolas. No. 19-20, Spring-Summer (June 1930): 167-173. In the Contributors section of that issue, on page 396: "Bob Brown has now settled in Paris after a long stay in Brasil,"

---. Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine . Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, 1931.

---. Words . Paris : Nancy Cunard's Hours Press, 1931.

---. Gems: A Censored Anthology. Cagnes-sur-Mer, France: Roving Eye Press, 1931.

---. “Letters of Gertrude Stein.” Berkeley: a journal of modern culture , No. 8 (1951): 1-2, 8.

Crane, Stephen. The Black Riders and other lines . Boston: Copeland&Day, 1895.

de Campos, Augusto [One of the founders of the International Concrete Poetry Movement]. "Bob Brown: Optical Poems," the introduction to the Brazilian edition of Brown's 1450-1950. First published in Suplemento Literário de “O Estado de São Paulo” / Literary Supplement of the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo. 9 January 1965. Later included, with several poems of Bob Brown's from the Jargon Books Edition, in the book A MARGEM DA MARGEM (AT THE MARGIN OF THE MARGIN). São Paulo, Brazil: Companhia das Letras , 1989: 126-141.

Duchamp, Marcel. Tu m' (1918). Oil on canvas, with bottle brush, three safety pins, and one bolt, 27 1/2 x 119 5/16 in. (69.8 x 303 cm).

Dworkin, Craig. “Seeing Words Machinewise: Technology And Visual Prosody.” Sagetrieb: Poetry and Poetics After Modernism , Vol. 8, No. 1 (1999): 59-86.

Dworkin, Craig. Reading the Illegible . Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2003.

Farrell, James T. Studs Lonigan; a trilogy . New York: Vanguard Press, 1935.

Ford, Hugh. Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939 , Foreword by Janet Flanner. Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Press, 1980.

Jolas, Eugene. "The Machine and ‘Mystic America.’" transition: an international quarterly for creative experiment , Ed. Eugene Jolas. no 19-20, Spring-summer (June 1930): 379-383. A quarterly (irregular) from the Summer of 1928 to June 1930, this was the last issue before they suspended publication.

Kostelanetz, Richard. The New Poetries and Some Old . Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois Press, 1991.

McGann, Jerome J. Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.

North, Michael. “Words in Motion: The Movies, the Readies, and the ‘Revolution of the Word.’” Modernism/ modernity , Vol. 9, No. 2 (2002): 205-223.

North, Michael. Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word . New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Others: A Magazine of the New Verse. Ed. Alfred Kreymborg from 
July 1915 (1:1) – July 1919 (5:6) in editions of 250-300.

Pound, Ezra, James Joyce, and Forrest Read. Pound/Joyce; the Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce: With Pound's Essays on Joyce . A New Directions book. New York: New Directions, 1967.

Rasula, Jed, and Steve McCaffery. Imagining Language: An Anthology . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

Rothenberg, Jerome, and Pierre Joris. Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern&Postmodern Poetry . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Rothenberg, Jerome. Revolution of the Word; A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry, 1914-1945 . New York: Seabury Press, 1974.

Saper, Craig. The Reading Machine. http://www.readies.org, an online simulation of the machine designed for The Readies for Bob Brown's Machine , with contributions by the original authors. Readies.org, 2009. May 22, 2009.

Saper, C. "BOEYEK TREYEN ING" (designed by E. Tonnard), in Image Process Literature . Edited by Chris Burnett and Elisabeth Tonnard. Rochester, NY: Ampersand, forthcoming 2010.

Stein, Gertrude. Absolutely Bob Brown, or Bobbed Brown (unpublished). Printed by Claude Fredericks at The Banyan Press in Pawlet, Vermont, 1955. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Tzara, Tristan. Faites vos jeux, Les Feuilles libres , No. XXXI (March-April 1923): n.p., as quoted in Mary Ann Caws, The Poetry of Dada and Surrealism: Aragon, Breton, Tzara, Eluard, and Desnos . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1970.

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