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Artist book (limited edition)

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1476 Collections and/or Records:

Beware of Poets Bearing Dreams! / Dellafiora, David., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49523-70569
Scope and Contents

The pages depict grainy photographic reproductions of frontal portraits of different men rearranged from horizontal cuttings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Black hat at the end of the bar / Khu-En-Oho\aka d.a. levy ; The Dragon Lady Mara\aka Mara ; Davis J., 2004

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Identifier: CC-59874-10002930
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by the publisher and printer, Jason Davis. This title was first printed by 400 Rabbit Press, Cleveland 1966 in 120 copies. The layout of the poem on the right sid e of the page is reminiscent of ee cummings' style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Black hat at the end of the bar / Khu-En-Oho\aka d.a. levy ; The Dragon Lady Mara\aka Mara ; Davis J., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42950-44994
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by the publisher and printer, Jason Davis. This title was first printed by 400 Rabbit Press, Cleveland 1966 in 120 copies. The layout of the poem on the right side of the page is reminiscent of ee cummings' style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Black Holes / Neaderland, Louise Odes., 1997

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Identifier: CC-59554-10002631
Scope and Contents

The construction of this book is such that each page contains a pop-up version of a black hole with black and white background and typography. At the top of each page is the continuing phrase "The searach for the invisible requires sustained obsession." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Blends / Strangulensis, Ficus., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28432-29696
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a handwritten column of words or wordlike forms which shows progressive alteration from a primary word to a new one or an image. Examples include among others 1) young - void, 2) falls - mist, 3) ripe - shoe, 4) seed - image of a tree. This has been termed "transmorfation" by Ficus Strangulensis and has also been utilized by other poets, notably Crag Hill, jw curry, and Geof Huth. The transmorfations are composed in a computer and laser printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Blick-Book / Klassen, Norbert., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57609-10000882
Scope and Contents

The two copies of this book differ in the content of the Bliick pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Bodh[i] Circu[it]s / Alg[a]e{bra] D[ra[in]] / White, Derek., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42725-44744
Scope and Contents Basinski reviewed this book on the WEB: "Bodh[i] Circu[it]s / Alg[a]e[bra] D[ra[in]] continues work that Derek White has done in his previous books: 23 Text Tiles and Mining in the Black Hills both 2003 from Calamari Press. This is expansive visual poetry and as that something needed. Guilty, visual poets are sometimes of repeating themselves via style and form and medium but you won't find any of that in Derek White. He is the most expansive visual poet I've read in some time. Each page in fact is a new field of work, a new form, form of forms, and he has not abandoned the word but has each time found it fresh and new again and is able to ornament it in balance with visuals, various forms, lines images, color, type, print, hands, photocopy, and conglomeration, a constellation cooperation of mediums germinates and generates into a splendidly babbling work. And with babble I mean only a compliment because babble is the multi-sound/dimensions one hears, as sweet delight, when...
Dates: 2004

Bodies: More than 19,476 Combinations / Grieger, Susan., 1976

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Identifier: CC-51246-72334
Scope and Contents

This book consists of photographs of a naked man and woman cut horizontally into four sections so that it is possible to combine the bodies (from back and front) in "more that 19,476 combinations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Bonhommes Faits avec des Elastiques / Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 1995

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Identifier: CC-05404-5507
Scope and Contents

The collaged element on the title page is a rubber band that has been used to create images on a photocopying machine that are depicted on the pages of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Book 5: Flip Book / Depew, Wally ; Depew L., 1968

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Identifier: CC-51149-72236
Scope and Contents

Linda Depew did the linoleum block print on the cover. The pages mostly depict a 2 x 2 square or triangular grid with the stencilled letters L, O, V, and E as well as in some instances a blank square placed in various combinations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Book #10 / Marcus, Aaron., 1971

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Identifier: CC-41870-43865
Scope and Contents

Marcus greatly enlarged the letters of the words in this book to bleed across the pages to make the text illegible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Book 11: Square K / Depew, Wally., 1969

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Identifier: CC-16088-16431
Scope and Contents

Each page has a stencilled capital K within or slightly outside of a square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969