Futura Poesia Sonora: Antologia storico critica della poesia sonora

Milan, Cramps Records, 1978. Critical-historical anthology of sound poetry, edited by Arrigo Lora Totino. Silver paper covered cardboard box, 32 x 32 x 2.5 cm, containing seven long-play vinyl disks 33/30, each in the original illustrated sleeves (Cramps records 5206-301 to 5206-307).

Includes a 60 page booklet, 30 x 30 cm, comprising a very complete anthology of sound poetry, with texts in Italian and English by Renato Barilli, richly illustrated with photographs and examples of musical scores and texts. The disks feature works from the beginning of the 20th century, by Marinetti, Balla, Kurt Schwitters, Antonin Artaud, and Raoul Hausmann, to works from the 1960s and 1970s by Brion Gysin, Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck, Isidore Isou, Adriano Spatola, Maurizio Nannucci et al. A full list can be send upon request. The box has some wear to the corners, the records and sleeves are in perfect condition.