Hold On To Your Hat
Interviews with Bern Porter edited by mIEKAL aND
http://xexoxial.org/is/hold_on_to_your_hat/by/bern_porter
2013. 8x10, 221 pages
ISBN-10: 1-936687-07-0 | ISBN-13: 978-11936687-07-7
This is the long-awaited collection of interviews & photos spanning 25
years in the life of Bern Porter wherein he reveals the secrets of
forming the Institute for Advanced Thinking, growing up in Maine,
observing the nature of plasma and the universe and how to design the
perfect shoe and bake the perfect onion, as well as sharing anecdotes
about famous personages from history that he may or may not have ever
met and explaining why found poetry is the literature of the future.
"I am the inventor of Found Art. This was a tremendous development for
me. I was born without anything and therefore had no money for an
artist's tools such as easels, paints, brushes, etc. So, at the age of
four, I invented Found Art. I would go to the Post Office wastebasket
and go through it, pulling out things that in some way would interest
me. I'd find printed words, word gems, and combinations of words that
were poems in themselves. With a found poem, I would go through the
wastebasket, take scissors and glue and put it together. Cut and
reassemble it. I am the inventor of the whole philosophy of Found
Art."
—Bern Porter
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Table of Contents
mIEKAL aND
Interview with Bern Porter
Steve Random
Photographs
mIEKAL aND, Elizabeth Was and Ben Meyers
Questions for Bern Re: The Institute of Advanced Thinking
Joel Lipman
Photographs
Dick Higgins
Interview with Bern Porter
Amy Hufnagel
Photographs
Mark Melnicove
Interview with Bern Porter
Read Brugger
Photographs
Phobrek Hei and Sasha K.
Interview with Bern Porter
Seth Tisue and Brad Russell
Interview by Mail with Bern Porter
Judith Hoffberg
Interview with Bern Porter
Bern Porter
Physics for Tomorrow
Bern Porter
Introduction to Xerolage 16
Bern Porter
Significant Content
Bern Porter
The Preposition Song
Amy Hufnagel
See(MAN)TIC / Bern Porter
Andrew Russ
Books by and about Bern Porter
Andrew Russ
Review of Bern Porter's I've Left
Hat-isms
Bibliography
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