“Porter has said that he wanted to summarize everything he knew in I’ve Left. And it’s in this spirit that [the] work should be taken. Epochal it is, and it should serve as a preface to Porter’s uncommonly terse and and blank-filled works, whose meaning is provided primarily by the reader, but whose humour, style and general aesthetic quality are implicit in Porter’s constructions. As an example of these, we have included a small bouquet of the Found Poems (1928- ), deliberately undated, at the end of the present edition.
Modern Culture consists of many voices in lots of rooms. One of the larger of these, to which we hope the present volume provides the key, is that of Bern Porter.”
A manifesto and a testament of science and art (SciArt), with an introduction by Dick Higgins, who writes:
“[Porter’s] life is a flux of constantly fresh experience and achievement. I've Left is a chunk, a more or less static spin-off from this, As such it's less characteristic of the Porter style and experience than most of the other works. But it's a good place to begin.”
Cloth-bound hardcover in dust jacket, 21 x 14,5 cm, 50 pages, New York Barton Cologne 1971
ISBN: 087110-076-2
