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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