Hardcover. New York University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled, unclipped white dust jacket with blue lettering, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on the spine. A collection of visually kinetic poetry. American poet Norman H. Pritchard's second and final book. Pritchard's writing is visually and typographically unconventional. His methodical arrangements of letters and words disrupt optical flows and lexical cohesion, modulating the speeds of reading and looking by splitting, spacing and splicing linguistic objects. His manipulation of text and codex resembles that of concrete poetry and conceptual writing, traditions from which literary history has mostly excluded him. Norman H. Pritchard (1939-96) was affiliated with the Umbra group, a predecessor to the Black Arts Movement. No markings. Very slight warp to covers.
