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Critical facsimile edition making crucial modernist texts available for the first time since 1931 Restores a rare but highly influential modernist anthology to print in a new critical facsimile editionProvides extensive scholarly commentary, analyses, and newly discovered biographical information, setting the anthology in its broader cultural contextOffers the first collection of avant-garde writing designed to be read on a 'reading machine' invented by the American expatriate poet Bob BrownIncludes both Craig Saper's new Introduction and a separate chapter on the Contributors and their readies. Saper is the leading scholar of Bob Brown's work as well as an important scholar of experimental writing, media, publishing, and art This new edition of Bob Brown's groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown's Roving Eye Press originally published it. Only a few copies exist in archives today. The contributors include major modernist writers such as Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, F. T. Marinetti, Eugène Jolas and Ezra Pound, key social realists like Kay Boyle and James T. Farrell and daring queer novelists and artists including Charles Henri Ford and Sidney Hunt. Providing extensive scholarly commentary, analyses and newly discovered biographical information, this book sets the anthology in its broader cultural context. This is an essential resource for those interested in print and book history, the politics and culture of the expatriate avant-garde and the reading machine's impact on reading, writing and literacy.

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"#Readies or not!: Now ---- is -- the -- time -- for Bob Brown's -- ingenious, inventive -- telegraphic -- inspiring -- and //=// IRREPRESSIBLE -- Readies. ++ e-poetry avant la ++ inkless speedreading ++ condensare with a vengeance ++ Wall Street ticker tape melting into >>p^o eessential * FOUNDATIONAL * k i n e t i c * eclectic * electrifying!!! -- anachronistic -- anthology of radical (([paratactic])) modernist American poetry.-- ""Charles Bernstein, 2019 Bollingen Prize winner"""

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Robert Carlton Brown (1886-1959) was an American author, journalist, publisher, and collector. Born in Chicago. Brown wrote pulp fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, avant-garde publications, and experimented with a book of visual poetry. Craig Saper is Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He is the author of The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown (Fordham University Press, 2016), Intimate Bureaucracies: A Manifesto (New York, 2012), Networked Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) and Artificial Mythologies: A Guide to Cultural Invention (University of Minnesota Press, 1997). Eric White is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, he has taught at the University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Edinburgh, and has held fellowships at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Oxford. Eric is PI and co-founder of the Avant-Gardes and Speculative Technology Project, which re-imagines modernists' inventions using Augmented Reality.

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