• The Book of Do's / Bern Porter
The Book of Do's / Bern Porter The Book of Do's / Bern Porter The Book of Do's / Bern Porter The Book of Do's / Bern Porter The Book of Do's / Bern Porter

The Book of Do's / Bern Porter

Perfect bindings

FA.B117.2252
Fine Art Collection
27 cm x 21 cm
1982
Bern Porter
The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Dog Ear Press
artists' books
Perfect-bound white soft covers with photographic dust jacket. One of the better-known books of "found poetry" by Bern Porter, consisting of collaged elements from advertisements and other found linguistic printed matter.

"Some of the found poetry of Bern Porter is like this – you can open a book and see things there that look like poems, but they're laundry lists, or they're cut-up bits of ads, or pages of mail-order catalogues. Whatever. But in some way they become poems too, particularly, say, the way a really good found-poet like Bern Porter utilizes them." --Jerome Rothenberg, dust jacket flap.