SOME MORE SONNET(S)

collects 44 variants of a sonnet, that was originally written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and which was already published in 44 variations by Ulises Carrion in 1972. (which are out of print since then, almost)
While Ulises Carrion used a typewriter, Michalis Pichler used a computer, probably word or open office.

About this book:

Right with Pichler's first sonnet, the "TIMES NEW ROMAN SONNET", it becomes clear that 37 years went down the road between Carrión's publication und Pichler's series, and in the meantime new possibilities of layout, producing text and distributing literature emerged. In this sense Pichler carries out a technical modernization of Carrión's cycle, if he adds an "EMAILED SONNET"and"FAXED SONNET" to Carrión's letter-, telegraphed or dictated sonnets, or if he installs different layouts which would have been difficult to do on a typewriter, but are easy tasks with an computer, such as a "LEFTBOUND SONNET", a "RIGHTBOUND SONNET", a "CENTERED SONNET", a "TABBED SONNET", variations of a "RASTER SONNET"etc. While the raster sonnets recall the specific spatiality and visuality of the sonnet as "lengthwise and crosswise linked structure", but most of those graphically unleashed sonnet variants also demonstrate, that it is possible to organize a sonnett typographically quite unusual, without it necessarily losing its categorization as sonnet.

(...) However, Pichler does not appropriate only Rossetti and Carrión, as he announces in his "BIBLIOGRAPHY" but also specific other modern 'classics' from the history art, books and literature - often so without providing obvious, indicative labels.

- Annette Gilbert in "Geliehene Sonette. Appropriationen des Sonetts im Conceptual Writing (Dmitrij Prigov, Ulises Carrión, Michalis Pichler)"

29,7 x 21 cm, 90 pages, 2011, ed. 400
"greatest hits", Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86874-009-7

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