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Private Press

Dada Kampfen um Leben und Tod: A Prose Poem

Jas H. Duke

1996


The Wayzgoose Press was founded by Jadwiga Jarvis and Mike Hudson in 1985. To date, the press has produced some 20 books, 30 broadsides and associated prospectuses and ephemera.

Dada Kampfen um Leben und Tod: A Prose Poem (Dada Fight for Life and Death) is one of a series of ambitious hand-set and hand-printed books featuring the work of contemporary Australian poets, in this case an experimental sound poem by Jas H. Duke (c1939-92).

While clearly influenced by the modernist books produced by the Russian constructivists in the 1920s, Jarvis and Hudson have been careful to avoid mere pastiche. Dada is one of the finest private press books ever produced in Australia.

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