Maurice Lemaître, Poésie Nouvelle

Paris, Poésie Nouvelle, 1961-1962. Supplements for the Lettrist magazine (1957-62) directed by Lemaître, subtitled 'La dictature lettriste: bulletin du mouvement lettriste et hypergraphique et du soulèvement de la jeunesse'. All mimeographed sheets stapled in upper left corner. Contributions by Isou, Lemaitre, Wolman and many others, text in French.

Included are: (1) Second Supplement No.17 Oct-Dec 1961, 14 pp. on yellow paper (toned). (2) Supplement No.18 Jan-March 1962, 10 pp. printed on blue paper (toned). (3) First Supplement to No.19 April-June 1962, 16 pp. on yellow paper (toned). Last sheet loose and brittle, worn around edges. *Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Isidore Isou, named for the French word for letter, since their early work centered around parsing the visual and spoken symbols of language. The members of the group produced sound poetry, film, painting, and political treatises. (total 3)