ACCONCI, Vito

He began as a poet and translator; and though Acconci subsequently had a distinguished career as a visual artist, mounting exhibitions and producing videotapes as well as presenting live performances and Installations, his poetry remains his most innovative work. One 350-line poem was distributed one line per page over 350 separate sheets of paper, which were then bound into 350 copies of Acconci's otherwise uniform magazine, 0 to 9. His definitive work is Book Four (1968), which he self-published...