C’EST LE NUMERO 3 D’APPROCHES. 1968.

Paris: Approches, 1968

20.5 x 18cm, 206pp plus card covers. The third number of this hard to find concrete and visual poetry journal edited by J.F. Bory and Julien Blaine. Original contributions by a range of international poets including several from Japan – Shimuzu Toshihiko, Mieko Shiomi, Hitasono Katue and Takahashi Shohachiro. Others include Mary Ellen Solt, Tiziano and Spatola from Italy, Thomas A. Clark, Carlo Lischetti, Brian Lane, GIanna Bertini, Jochen Gerz, Accame, Bob Cobbing, John Furnival, Alain Arias-Mission, Richard Kostelanetz, Luigi Ferro and others. Some works are complex – one page with an attached mirror, others printed on transparent paper. One inserted 7 x 10cm, 1pp card as issued by Bory.

Overall an interesting and scare review of international experimental poetry in VG+ condition.