Description (in English)
The early “Tape Mark” poems by Nanni Balestrini (1961) appropriate texts by Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching), Paul Goldwin (The Mystery of the Elevator), and Michihito Hachiya (Hiroshima Diary). (Source: C.T. Funkhouser 2007: 12) The Cybernetic Serendipity catalog reports that the operations involved withbthe successful production of Balestrini’s “Tape Mark” poems required the author to create 322 punched cards and 1,200 instructions into the computer (Balestrini, “Tape Mark I” 55). (Source: C.T. Funkhouser 2007: 278)
