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Stockholm: Kerberos, 1963. In wraps. [52] pp. 3 5/8 x 7 1/4 in. Very good; lightly toned. Item #7478
One of an edition of 500. An attractive work of concrete poetry by one of the central figures of the 1960s Swedish avant-garde. Poet and composer Åke Hodell (1919–2000) was a key figure among the experimental writers and visual artists in 1960s Sweden and one of the first Swedish practitioners of concrete poetry. He was trained as a fighter pilot, and after surviving a plane crash he spent an extensive period recovering in a hospital. He regained his health, but the ordeal led him to become a staunch anti-militarist, and his work took on a strongly political and anti-authoritarian tone. His writing often features the language of flight controls, sounds, radar screens, enignes, and secret codes related to aviation.
Kerberos, Hodell’s small, avant-garde press, ran from 1963 to 1972 and published 16 volumes.
Price: $400.00