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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Air: Ziggurats. No.29 / Henry Greenhow., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-29829-31209
Scope and Contents

Pages consist of typings that form geometric shapes mainly based upon punctuation marks, percent symbols, the letter 'z' and numbers. There are no typewriter poems with verbal meanings is included in this collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Air: Ziggurats. No.29 / Henry Greenhow., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-29830-31210
Scope and Contents

Pages consist of typings that form geometric shapes mainly based upon punctuation marks, percent symbols, the letter 'z' and numbers. There are no typewriter poems with verbal meanings is included in this collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Airpoet/Airpoet / Richard Kelly Tipping., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-01677-1713
Scope and Contents

Tipping created this reproduction of the street sign by substituting the 'r' in port with an 'e.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Aktuelles Buchprogramm / Pohlmann, Mathias., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-28947-30278
Scope and Contents

The catalogue lists and describes all of Pohlmann's publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

al-pha-bet-hai-ku / Helmes, Scott; cummings ee., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-50693-71767
Scope and Contents

The Haiku for three voices that follow red, bronze and black painted lines is as follows: alphabet letters / acting in complete accord / sound blows through the eye. A second poem is titled "re-reading cummings." These works were a birthday present to Marvin Sackner from Scott Helmes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Alain Lance / Tarlatt, Ulrike., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-01388-1421
Scope and Contents

This print appeared in one of the issues of Uni/vers(;). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Alan Sondheim 1958 - ; 5: Sound / Daniels, David; Sondheim A., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42380-44390
Scope and Contents

This poem depicts a highly stylized figure with a crown above a black space where the face should be. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Alaska Passage / Birney, Earle., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-21116-21525
Scope and Contents

This booklet was a component of Birney's "pnomes jukollages and other stunzas" (Gronk Series 4 No.3), a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Aleatory Letters / Taylor, Kent ; levy, d.a.., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-01261-1292
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book depict scattered letters and unintelligible words in different type faces. levy was the owner of Renegade Press. According to Kent Taylor in a personal communication (1997) to the Sackners, the cover image and print was done by him rather than levy. Further, this image differs between the two copies of this book held by the Sackner Archive.*WEB 1998: Richard Aaron, Am Here Books: This is an Exhibition Catalogue.*WEB 1999: Kent Taylor, I'm baffled by Richard Aaron's comment about Aleatory Letters being an 'exhibition catalogue'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Aleatory Letters / Taylor, Kent ; levy, d.a.., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-01262-1293
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book depict scattered letters and unintelligible words in different type faces. levy was the owner of Renegade Press. According to Kent Taylor in a personal communication (1997) to the Sackners, the cover image and print was done by him rather than levy. Further, the image differs between the two copies of this book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

alfabeti , 1975

 Item — Folder 73: [Barcode: 31858072538089]
Identifier: CC-37744-39621
Scope and Contents

There is an unsigned version of this print with smaller borders listed as an issue of Mercado Del Sale, September 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

all / De Vries, Herman., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29824-31203
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of the word "all" written repetitively in several colors lined up in a 16 x 15 grid. A varient of this drawing with a vertical orientation is depicted in de vries book, "eschinau sutra" (2002). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997