Barbarber (also referred to as BBB) was, as it described itself, a magazine for texts. History
Barbarber was founded in 1958 by J. Bernlef, K. Schippers and G. Brands and existed until 1972. There were 87 editions in total. Most songs have an elongate size: A-folded A-Four.
The magazine focused on publishing all possible texts: poems and stories, as well as drawings and photographs. The texts are often commonplace but have a strong poetic charge.
The 'Sixties' who created this magazine are opposed to the verbal and the Fifth-century imagery sculptures, which were hardly ever accepted as poetic innovators. They pleaded for realism, for a magnifying glass on everyday reality. Barbarber represents the international flow of neorealism. One of the text forms in Barbarber was the readymade, a "found" text, such as a grocery list or a note found somewhere. Because of the poet's attention, such text gets a poetic charge. Buddingh ', Bernlef and Schippers are well-known practitioners of this art form.
As a homage to Barbarber, the Apeldoorn poet Willem Bierman founded the Prado magazine in 1985, which relates to content. This magazine still exists. Typical BBB text
If you are good at it looking at you see all that is colored
The dog drinks from his mirror image the whole pile empty.
"Well, that seems a shove, what lies on the floor, "I thought, 'a dusty, gray-green shave' but when I looked better I saw that it was not a shave, but an elastic band, enclosed in the shape of the shelf Literature
Hans Renders, Barbarians 1958-1971, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden 1986 [138 p.]
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