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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6454 Collections and/or Records:

Sea Poppy Mosaic [Photocopy] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-58300-10001532
Scope and Contents

The image depicts a random arrangement of ship's identification numbers placed within a circular shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Sea water / Upton, Lawrence ; Cheek C., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-45162-47344
Scope and Contents

This book was printed by Chris Cheek -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Seascape Two, 1976

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-13080-13375
Scope and Contents

The seascape is composed of a mass of letters spelling seascape located in the lower left with the shape of an ocean wave. The upper right has the word yellow signifying the sun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Seasons Greetings / Carol Stetser., 2008

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Identifier: CC-50061-71121
Scope and Contents

The disc reads NOEL and can be used as a Christmas tree ornament. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Seasons Greetings / Carol Stetser., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-50061-71121
Scope and Contents

The disc reads NOEL and can be used as a Christmas tree ornament. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

[Second Draft for Richard Truhlar's Ten Sephardic Translations] / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19726-20113
Scope and Contents

This consists of preliminary sketches for the work that was published in can't afford no Kodak Instamatik Instamatik Vol.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

See Art Here / Olbrich, Jurgen O.; Depew W., 2014

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Identifier: CC-58957-10002150
Scope and Contents

While visiting the Sackners JUrgen Olbrich created these three collaged pages using photcopied texts of Wally Depew from works in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

See the Old Lady Decently, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-32669-34255
Scope and Contents

This is semi-biographical novel of Johnson's mother. It was last novel written by Johnson who committed suicide shortly after its release. Michael Bakewell wrote an introductory essay that provides an explanation of the story. The shaped, concrete poems portray a breast as a metaphor for the cause of Johnson's mother's death from breast cancer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

See / Walker, Todd., 1978

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Identifier: CC-32338-33905
Scope and Contents

This book consists of colored, photographs of female nudes that have been altered in the development process along with documentary text. The front cover and pages adjacent to the cover print a concrete poem, "See." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Seeing Things / Froman, Robert., 1977

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Identifier: CC-11764-11983
Scope and Contents

Froman defines seeing poems (concrete poems) as the outline of a light bulb which "...happens when when words take a shape that helps them to turn on a light in someone's mind." A few poems relating to breathing are included in the book such as "Superstink." This concrete poem depicts a bus at a stop, a start-up, followed by an engine backfire with a big cloud of pollutants released into the atmosphere causing a cacophony of cough, gasp, choke, sneeze, snuffle etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977