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Namepoem "Ruth" #501 / Cutler-Shaw, Joyce., 1983

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Identifier: CC-20084-20478

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The drawing consists of the calligraphic repetition and joining of the name, "Ruth." The bottom portion of the drawing was water damaged necessitating its removal such that its dimensions were reduced from 34.5 x 24.5 cm to 34.5 x 21.5 cm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

napalm sunday / he puns wied eu / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55766-9999310

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'Weid' is a Scottish and Irish varient of 'weed' and eu in French means 'got' in Engish. This poem is an anti-Vietnam war poem that deals with burning the fields of that country into weeds with Napalm 'got' by U.S. military forces. Houedard may also be referring to 'field day,' that originally referred to a set of military exercises, a term utilized in 'A Scheme for Equipping and Maintaining Sixteen Men of War' (1747), e.g., These periodical intervals of eating and drinking...are to the Citizens as it were Field Days, for improving ...their Valour [internet]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Nectarines and Oranges / Humphrey, Margo., 1981

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Identifier: CC-09272-9454

Dates: 1981

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

negro / organ / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-55882-58990

Scope and Contents This poem reverses when turned 180 degrees. Wikipedia: Baron Samedi (Baron Saturday, also Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi, or Bawon Sanmdi) is one of the Loa of Haitian Voodoo. Samedi is a Loa of the dead, along with Baron's numerous other incarnations Baron Cimetière, Baron La Croix, and Baron Kriminel. He is the head of the Guédé family of Loa, or an aspect of them, or possibly their spiritual father. 'Samedi' means 'Saturday' in French. His wife is the Loa Maman Brigitte. He is usually depicted with a top hat, black tuxedo (dinner jacket), dark glasses, and cotton plugs in the nostrils, as if to resemble a corpse dressed and prepared for burial in the Haitian style. He has a white, frequently skull-like face (or actually has a skull for a face) and speaks in a nasal voice. He is a sexual Loa, frequently represented by phallic symbols and is noted for disruption, obscenity, debauchery, and having a particular fondness for tobacco and rum. Additionally, he is the Loa of sex and...

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

neo left / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-57156-10000485

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Nervous System , 2000

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Identifier: CC-37385-39238

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This book originally was supposed to be the periodical Neptune No.2 (Neptune No.1 is held by the Sackner Archive). The front cover is stencil cut with the word NERVOUS and the back cover is stencil cut with the word SYSTEM. The handwritten, obsessive text is concerned with the emotions. Kurt Allerslev describes Nervous System in correspondence with Marvin Sackner that "the end result is a beautifully charged multiply printed edition of ten. Nervous System smells of ink and sweat sweet sour electricity. Lush dense compositions explore the interconnectedness of nerve form and letterform." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Neueingange Seit / Frick, Hugo ; Danon B ; Hadrill R ; Spoerri D ; Fahrner B., 1988

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Identifier: CC-11639-11856

Dates: 1988

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Neuerscheinungen - Herbst 1997 / Andryczuk, Hartmut ; Garnier P ; Andryczuk H ; Dencker KP ; Warnke U ; Garnier I ; Fabry A ; Putz C ; Bulatov D ; Deisler G., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29473-30838

Dates: 1997

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

NEURO PATH / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-57139-10000475

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This page contains 11 concrete, mirror image and reversal poems each enclosed in ink squares.The handwritten name "Nicholas Logsdale," the owner and founder of Lisson Gallery in London is on the l.r.side. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats