Bidspirit auction | POSTEXTUAL: Carta-Revista Internacional de Poesía

POSTEXTUAL: Carta-Revista Internacional de Poesía Alternativa. [México]. 1986. - POSTEXTUAL: Carta-Revista Internacional de Poesía Alternativa . N. 2 (Verano, 1986). [México]: s.n., 1986. 12 pp.: il.; 340 mm. Issue number 2 (Summer 1986) of Postextual , an international letter-magazine of alternative poetry published in Mexico, probably within the circle of César Horacio Espinosa – organizer of the International Biennials of Visual and Experimental Poetry in Mexico and a central figure in the Latin American network of experimental art. The format adopted – a fold-out newspaper sent by mail as ”printed matter” – is itself a gesture of mail art: the publication is simultaneously a vehicle and an artistic object. This issue is largely dedicated to the visual poetry of Eastern Europe: a section on Poland features works by Andrzej Dudek-Dürer, Pawel Petasz, Danuta Maczak, Mira and Robert Rupocinski, Ryszard Swierad, Piotr Rypson, Tomasz Schulz, and Krzysztof Zelechowski; the Hungarian section, introduced by a text by Petocz Andras on the history of visual poetry in Hungary since the magazine Magyar Műhely (founded in Paris in 1962 by Tamkó Sirató Károly), presents works by Aranyi László, Popp Tibor, Koppány Márton, Hegyeshalmi László, Petocz Andras, and others. The zaum writing of the Russian poet Waleri Scherstjanoi (USSR) and theoretical articles by César Espinosa on zaum and ”transmental” poetry complete the content. The issue also includes ”Multi-poética Or-cidental” by Paul Bruscky (Recife, 1949) and J. Medeiros – two of the most important mail art and xerox-art artists in Brazil. A highly important archival document for the history of international visual poetry of the 1980s. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate