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Mandel, Tom : EncY. Tuumba 16

Tuumba Press, Berkeley, CA, 1978

Limited edition. No. 435 of 450 copies printed. Original publisher's gray wrapper with staple binding. 5 3/4" x 9." Seventeen unnumbered pages, complete. Pages and covers are pristine and intact. Staples are not rusted. Pamphlet not price-clipped. A Fine copy. Colophon in the back: "EncY was designed and printed at Tuumba Press by Lyn Lejinian. Of an edition of 450 this is No. 435." Colophon in the front: "This project is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D. C., a Federal Agency." On the title page: "Printed at Tuumba Press as Tuumba 16, July 1978." On the back cover: "$2.00; Subscription: $6 series; Individual copy: $2; Tuumba Press, 2639 Russell Street, Berkeley, California 94705." Tom Mandel (b. 1942) is a poet whose work is associated with the Language (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E) group of poets. Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941) is a poet, essayist, and publisher whose work is also part of the Language poetry movement. She is considered one of the group's founders. Hejinian also founded the Tuumba Press. Language poetry first came about during the 1960s and 1970s as an avant-garde, postmodernist movement. Language poems are considered unconventional and are often known for their emphasis on conveying the meaning of the poem, their disjunctive structure, and the immateriality of the speaker and specifier. Excerpt from the poem: "Control the convention then perpetrate the tratence then perpede furred to any poor hil hop for mac hifj outer quarters crys formference in Af co ad b Eu va i porc Varzo ca-pr-ici-ous cannot well be helped, and more peristent, none, most with the disturbance. Only one, a plural, ends letter 's' (no longer justifiable: kamerun). ... highly merely 'words (cor)rect(al)ly eva(l/c)uated and connected with the facts for which properly they stand.". Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Fine. Binding: Soft cover

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