Poetry Center Librarian Wendy Burk speaks at a podium.
On a projector screen behind her, an image of a mirror with dots and scribbles on it. Two circles with text on one side -- the circles have arrows pointing at each between them. Text in circle on left, OMG I just got... Text in circle on right, a text from Dieter Roth. Text below image, Text Messages -- Roth, Dieter, drawing from Gesammelte Werke, v. 9, Stuttgart, H. Morgan, 1973 -- Courtesy of University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections.
Am image of an open book held by two hands on a table. Text, A Space and Time Machine, Gins, Madeline, Word Rain. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969. L R Benes Rare Book Room, University of Arizona Poetry Center.
A page in a book cut into ribbons comprised of each line. Text, Time Warp. Rest of citation largely illegible, but it is Courtesy of University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collection.
A white rectangle with various symbols and shapes scrawled on it, as well as small text. In the upper right corner, silhouetted figures in a rowboat. Text, Materiality is Probability, followed by a citation.
A close-up picture of a book open to the first page of a section or chapter. A stamp near the bottom of the page reads, COPY 14697. Text, Collophon (&on&on), Hamady, Walter, Gabberjabb No 5, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, Perishable Press, year not legible. L R Benes Rare Book Room, University of Arizona Poetry Center.
Images of two large crystals marked with fragmented text. The one on the left appears to say "Beat," as the one on the right reads "Poemobiles" upside down. Text, Rever (To See Again). Citation largely not legible.
A pamphlet with text next to a stylized painting of a figure standing before a desk with a book. Text, On the Off the Page. Citation largely not legible.
A close-up image of words and drawings on a page. Text, Form and Content? Citation largely not legible.
The words "Form and content" are crossed out.
"Form and content" leaves the screen to the left and is replaced with the word "Typopoiesis."
The image and citation disappear to leave the lone word "Typopoiesis" at the bottom.
Stylized text boxes slide on to the screen one by one to form an elaborate arrangement resembling a book cover. Once it is assembled, the text reads, Day, Flicker, Moon Night, Love, Was here, For the Hundredth time, For the Hundredth. There is an illegible strip of paper with words on it and, beneath everything, a ribbon of clouds.