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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6414 Collections and/or Records:

The Colors Of Rhetoric: Problems In The Relation Between Modern Literature And Painting / Steiner, Wendy ; Arp H ; Apollinaire G ; Balla G ; Breton A ; Carroll L ; Chopin H ; Duchamp M ; Fahlstrom O ; Finlay IH ; Gid R ; Gomringer E ; Gris J ; Joyce J ; Kriwet F ; Lewis WP ; Marinetti FT ; DeCampos A ; Picabia F ; Picasso P ; Pignatari D ; Pound E ; Simmias of Rhodes ; Tzara T ; cummings ee ; Kolar J ; Claus CF ; Kamimura H ; Ruhm G., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-53763-628342
Scope and Contents

Steiner integrates Anglo-American art history with East Europe semiotics and art theory to clarify the theoretical issues that attend the study of inter-artistic relationships and 'illuminate a broad range of specific works, genres and movements. She discusses the work of Pieter Breughal, Henri Rousseau, Edward Gorey, M C Escher, Rene Magritte, Jackson Pollock, William Carlos Willliams, Gertrude Stein, Lewis Carroll and e e cummings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

The Computer's First Christmas Card / Morgan, Edwin., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-28194-29360
Scope and Contents

This card prints combination words in a vertical listing as a spoof on the powers of a computer, e.g., |jollymerry|hollyberry|jollyberry|... as |MERRYCHR|YSANTHEMUM|. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Computer's First Translation / Morgan, Edwin, editor; Cobbing B; Furnival J; Parfitt W; Finch P; Morgan E., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-32393-33964
Scope and Contents

The card depict unreadable poems that might have been produced, according to Morgan's imagination, by bugs in computers' first programs on making translations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Concrete Night / Ferlinghetti, Lawrence., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-12844-13131
Scope and Contents

Text reads DEATH surrounded by night, light, delight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Concrete Tell / curry, jw., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-30410-10002835
Scope and Contents

The five poems in this book are formed by fragmented letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Cow Jumped over the Moon: The Writing and Reading of Poetry, 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-21115-21524
Scope and Contents

Most of this book is presented as an interview of Birney. The is one concrete poem example in this book dealing with autobiography and critical analysis of poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

The Cure / Brunsdon, Jyoti., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-23387-23829
Scope and Contents This book was designed by Mike Hudson and type set by Jadwiga Jarvis. In Jarvis' essay on letterpress printing and documentation of the books published by Wayzgoose, she writes the following. It was presented to the press as a typed manuscript but careful rereadings revealed that the story was a sonata form. The basic elements which are a exposition, development and recapitulation. In the exposition, the emphasis is on contrast (even conflict) and the development and recapitulationare areas of tonal flux , usually a modulating or changing key. Brunsdon used the sonata form to indicate one woman's passage from sanity to madness. Jarvis and Hudson "set the text in a mixture of sans serif fonts (contrast & conflict) and printed the book in three shades of olive green (modulation & key changes). The lightest of the lines dealing with the protagonist's innermost thoughts, a medium shade for the composed,impersonal front she presented to the world, and an almost-but-not-quite...
Dates: 1992

The East Village: A Poetic Inventory / Kostelanetz, Richard., 1975

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Identifier: CC-50370-71438
Scope and Contents

This unpublished work is a verbal map of the East Village, New York City. It is written in the same style as Kostelanetz's "Portraits From Memory," a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Egyptian Stroboscope (2nd Printing) / levy, d.a. ; Wagner, D.r.., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-52341-73464
Scope and Contents

Most of the copies of the first printing were confiscated by the Cleveland Police in the notorious raid of Jim Lowell's book store in 1966. This second printing is "lightly revised." It differs from the first edition by most pages consist of white rather than colored paper stock with less overall pages but stilll a rarity. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Eiffel Tower, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13314-13615
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print from the sixties -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[The Eiffel Tower] / John Furnival., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-12238-12462
Scope and Contents

This is an extra copy of a poem object that also is included on Revue Ou No.30-31. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[The Eiffel Tower] / John Furnival., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-12238-12462
Scope and Contents

This is an extra copy of a poem object that also is included on Revue Ou No.30-31. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Evolution Of English / curry, jw., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-19873-20261
Scope and Contents

From the top of this poem to the bottom, curry creates progressive disintegration of the hand printed "word" to the written "word" to illegible calligraphic markings to abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Evolution Of English / curry, jw., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-19874-20262
Scope and Contents

This is the another version of this poem that was also written in 1979. Both versions are held by the Sackner Archive. In a vertical format, the word, "word" is first printed, then written, then scrawled, and finally rendered illegible as the handwriting progressively disintegrates. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981