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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

some pages of A HUMENT....a humument. No. 8 / Phillips, Tom ; Furnival J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60243-10003249
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In pencil on the front of the folder Phillips has written "We were going to make a portfolio with John Furnival but abandoned the idea...this was the crude start...note the alterntative name at this stage!" Printed on the folder is "some pages of a Human Document A HUMENT....a humument".This print is a proof of Plakat 8. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Some Shows fo Escape, Some for Introspection / Johnson, Ken; Kriwet F; Warhol A., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48316-69341
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The review from Marianne Boesky's gallery features a description and an illustration of Kriwet's piece "Walk Talk." The Sackner Archive holds a red and black version of the one shown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Sonde, Die. No.1 / Karl Heinz Roth, editor ; Binter A ; Miro J ; Mathieu D., 1963

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Identifier: CC-02105-2143
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The concrete poem and experimental fiction pieces were written by A. Binter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Sonde, Die. No.2 / Horst Kistler, Karl Heinz Roth, editors ; Bremer C ; Schauffelen KB ; Mayrocker F ; Bezzel C ; Wolf R ; Mon F ; Dohl R ; Kriwet F ; Ball H ; Hausmann R ; Schwitters K ; Heissenbuttel H ; Bense M ; Falk G ; Lobe J ; Becher B., 1964

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Identifier: CC-02110-2148
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Reinhold Dohl contributed an essay on the history of Sound Poetry. This cover and page are the first appearance of Becher's photographs of industrial buildings in ptint and di not include his wife. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Sonety / Wernisch, Ivan; Rudolph, Pavel; Hula, Jiri; Vokolek, Vaclav; Rimbaud A; Baudelaire C., 1968

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Identifier: CC-50430-71498
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The photograph by Vokolek depicts the outside of a stone building in Viet Nam. Uncertain whether this is part of the portfolio or an add-in. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Songs All over the Place / Cobbing, Bob, editor., 1986

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Identifier: CC-17535-17901
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These poems were written by students at Epping Forest High School, Loughton, Essex, when Bob Cobbing was the visiting poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Songs of the Earth, 1970

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Identifier: CC-32036-33567
Scope and Contents

Johnson writes in the introduction, "These poems are listenings, as poems must listen and sing simultaneously. They are a progression of hearings of Mahler's 'Song of the Earth' on records, in concert, and in my head."The only difference between this disavowed edition and the regular edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive is the inclusion of one rather than three blank pages at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Songs of the Earth, 1970

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Identifier: CC-32037-33568
Scope and Contents

Johnson writes in the introduction, "These poems are listenings, as poems must listen and sing simultaneously. They are a progression of hearings of Mahler's 'Song of the Earth' on records, in concert, and in my head."The only difference between this regular edition and the disavowed edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive is the inclusion of three pages rather than one blank page at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Songsignals / Cobbing, Bob., 1971

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Identifier: CC-17539-17905
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Edited by Peter Finch. This is issue No.1 of Second Aeon Folder series; the second and final number, J.P. Wards's "From Alphabet to Logos," is also held by the Sackner Archive. In the introduction, Cobbing describes how he altered the found poems in this work to their final form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Sonic Water / Houedard, Dom Sylvester, editor; cummings ee; Morgan E; Gomringer E; Jandl E; Finlay IH., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55333-58854
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The distribution to others of this work is unknown. The original typed poem, "Sonic Water" is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Sonnet No.13 / De Araujo, Avelino., 1994

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Identifier: CC-60510-10003424
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Taken from Archiveof O!!Zone 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Sonnets in Concrete: Volume One / Brilliantes, Jos C.., 1968

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Identifier: CC-23354-23796
Scope and Contents

Brilliantes used typewriter characters to create distinctive shapes from the characters alone, viz. cats, dogs, lions, tigers, giraffes, bedbugs, girls with hula hoops, farmers, toothbrushes, scissors, pans etc. His images are quite unique in typewriter art and poetry and there are no other examples like his in the Sackner Archive. This book is stored in the same portfolio box as Bridgwater's "Typograms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968