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- 1973 :: my poetry is the world
- my poetry is the world
i write it every day
i rewrite it every day
i see it every day
i read it every day
i eat it every day
i sleep it every day - the world is my chance
it changes me every day
my chance is my poetry
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- The spoken text is recorded by Rainer Pließ for Master Peace Records, Sulzheim - November 2004 and added to herman de vries : les livres et les publications ; catalogue raisonné / textes de herman de vries, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Didier Mathieu (Centre des livres d'artistes : Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche 2005).
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herman de vriess, 'my poetry is the world', written 1972 and published in exhibition catalogue Kijkijk 73. Expositie van Nederlandse visuele poezie (Galerie De Vaart : Hilversum 1973) with indication: statement. Reprinted in herman de vries : vijf manifesten over taal - en een gedicht = fünf manifeste über sprache - und ein gedicht ... (artists press : bern 1975), in to be (Stuttgart 1995) 85 and in many other publications and catalogues. Also executed in stone in pavement in front of Havendijk no. 40, Gorinchem (1974), without the lines 4 and 7. 2nd. print as a poster in Lao and English, Vientiane (1975). The text was translated in many languages and published in my poetry is the world / edited by Lydia Megert, Paris (Eschenau 2002).