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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1920-07-30 - 2002-09-29

Nationality

British

Found in 999 Collections and/or Records:

Why Shiva Has Ten Arms (Number One) / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-17453-17818
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." Cobbing writes on the envelope that this copy number one was finished at 3AM on August 14, 1969. Colophon states "Why Shiva has ten arms / for he represents the dance of life / the omnipotence of being able to do innumerably / many things at once / .the joyous cosmology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Windwound / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-17497-17863
Scope and Contents

Designated chapbooks number seven. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Winter Poem No.2 , 1975

 Item — Folder 64: [Barcode: 31858072537982]
Identifier: CC-19992-20380
Scope and Contents

Performed for the first time at 8th international sound-poetry festival in London, May 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Winter Poem No.3 / Cobbing, Bob., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-17522-17888
Scope and Contents

One of the copies has a printed "Christmas Greetings" inside the back cover. Their cover image is identical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

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Sound poetry 528
Concrete poetry 249
Abstract markings 221
Xerox art 124
Documentation 91