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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6454 Collections and/or Records:

RIP / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

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Identifier: CC-57171-10000498
Scope and Contents

The page contains the word RIP typed at the top and bottom of the page. The poem indicates that thist is in tribute to Kennedy's death in Dallas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Risco / Augusto De Campos; Moyses Baumstein., 1986

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Identifier: CC-16038-16380
Scope and Contents

When properly lit and placed, the colorful letters of the front hologram that reads POESIA combines with the black letters of the second hologram to read RISCO. The holograms were constructed by Moyses Baumstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Risco / Augusto De Campos; Moyses Baumstein., 1986

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Identifier: CC-16038-16380
Scope and Contents

When properly lit and placed, the colorful letters of the front hologram that reads POESIA combines with the black letters of the second hologram to read RISCO. The holograms were constructed by Moyses Baumstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

riv selv / Steen, Vagn., 1965

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Identifier: CC-40652-42626
Scope and Contents

This book is an anthology of Steen's works dating to at least 1963. It reproduces his print, "Red Dor;" the actual print is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Riviste - Revues - Magazines / Maffei, Giorgio., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62660-48787
Scope and Contents

Catalogue lists mainly visual poetry magazines of the 1960's - 1980's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Robert Lax and Concrete Poetry / Lax, Robert ; Solt ME ; Gomringer E ; DeCampos H ; Furnival J ; Finlay IH ; Cobbing B ; Nichol bp ; bissett b., 1991

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Identifier: CC-07312-7456
Scope and Contents

In an introductory essay, Mary Ellen Solt traces concrete poetry historically and analyzes spcifically the work of Lax as related to Eugen Gomringer, Augusto De Campos and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Michael Basinski and Robert Bertholf provide an essay on "Zines," a generic term for a self-generated, cheaply produced (folded and stapled photocopied sheets), radically independent magazine. The exhibition included works of 167 international, concrete and visual poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

ROETHKE (300863) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-08744-8918
Scope and Contents

This poem is a homage to the death of Theodore Roethke (May25, 1908 - August 1, 1963) and was written by dsh one week after his death. Wikipedia: Roethke was an American poet who published several volumes of influential and critically acclaimed verse. He is widely regarded as among the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation. Roethke's work is characterized by its introspection, rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking, and he won the annual National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1959 for Words for the Wind[2] and posthumously in 1965 for The Far Field.In the November 1968 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, former U.S. Poet Laurete and author James Dickey wrote Roethke was: "...in my opinion the greatest poet this country has yet produced." In keeping with Houedard's poem, Roethke's poems often related to nature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Rolled Poem, 2002

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-43693-45779
Scope and Contents

This edition consisted of 50 tubes covered with recycled sticker material from different networkers in the 1980s and 1990s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Rondo Library Miscellany / Bart, Harriet, editor ; Warnke U ; Kostelanetz R ; Luis C ; Ernst KS ; Lohr H ; Murphy S ; Helmes S ; Huth G ; Gallo P ; Grumman B ; Hasekura T ; Bennett JM ; Keith B., 2006

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Identifier: CC-45961-48667
Scope and Contents

This work was commissioned as a work of public art. The poems comprising this work were etched into a 20 foot long glass wall. Stored flat on top of a box in the B section of books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Rondo Library Miscellany / Bart, Harriet, editor ; Warnke U ; Kostelanetz R ; Luis C ; Ernst KS ; Lohr H ; Murphy S ; Helmes S ; Huth G ; Gallo P ; Grumman B ; Hasekura T ; Bennett JM ; Keith B., 2006

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Identifier: CC-53649-291359
Scope and Contents

This work was commissioned as a work of public art. The poems comprising this work were etched into a 20 foot long glass wall. Stored flat on top of a box in the B section of books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Room/Raum / Mussman, Linda ; Tarcisi Schelbert, translator ; Hedwig Rappolt, translator., 1981

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Identifier: CC-06037-6151
Scope and Contents

This book consists of handwritten instructions for a performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Rose Window / Kempton, Karl., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33752-35416
Scope and Contents

In this book, Kempton composed circular, computer made poems that are formed from letters. They are presented one on each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

[Rosenberg Area Code 212] / Kotowitz, Victor., 1972

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Identifier: CC-48116-69139
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a page of the white pages of the New York telephone directory with a text over text concrete poem consisting of the name "Robinson." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972