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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

WORDS 1 / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57175-10000495
Scope and Contents

The bottom typed edge states "Is this word a symbol for words or for the word words? What is the word words?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

WORDS 2 / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

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Identifier: CC-57168-10000496
Scope and Contents

The page contains WORDS typed in a cross. The bottom typed edge states "The difference between words and the word words is the sound of language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

WORDS 3 / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

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Identifier: CC-57169-10000497
Scope and Contents

The page contains WORDS typed randomly and fragmented across the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Words / Blei, Norbert., 1987

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Identifier: CC-23203-23642
Scope and Contents

Is the original image for page 81 in Blei's "Paint Me a Picture Make Me a Poem," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Words Cubed / Anonymous., 1994

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Identifier: CC-43223-45282
Scope and Contents

Each surface of every cube is printed with words in varied typefaces and fonts so that new prose/poetry can be created. The piece is described as "building blocks for composing clever prose." The two copies differ in that the same words are printed on different cubes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words Cubed / Anonymous., 1994

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Identifier: CC-43223-45282
Scope and Contents

Each surface of every cube is printed with words in varied typefaces and fonts so that new prose/poetry can be created. The piece is described as "building blocks for composing clever prose." The two copies differ in that the same words are printed on different cubes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words Cubed: Poetry for Your Table / Anonymous., 1994

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Identifier: CC-26739-27209
Scope and Contents

All surfaces of eight wooden cubes are printed in different typefaces with single words which can be turned to "create weird, unique, zany, brilliant expressions... The cubes are building blocks for composing clever prose." The typeface for each of the words is well thought out and could stand alone as minimalist poetry in several instances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words Cubed: Poetry for Your Table / Anonymous., 1994

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Identifier: CC-26739-27209
Scope and Contents

All surfaces of eight wooden cubes are printed in different typefaces with single words which can be turned to "create weird, unique, zany, brilliant expressions... The cubes are building blocks for composing clever prose." The typeface for each of the words is well thought out and could stand alone as minimalist poetry in several instances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-58085-10001333
Scope and Contents

Apparently unrelated words are rubberstamped in different letter on individual pages interspace with abstract woodxut images.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Words Fail Me / Monachino, Teresa., 2006

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Identifier: CC-47024-49762
Scope and Contents Amazon.com review: WORDS FAIL ME by Teresa Monachino, is a collection of mind-teasing wordplay designed to artfully manipulate the unpredictability of the English language. Award-winning designer and typographer Teresa Monachino has always been baffled by the English language's contradictions and peculiarities. Words do not mean what they say--the middle letters of believe spell lie. Words have the same spelling but differ in both pronunciation and meaning--minute is both miniscule and a measurement of time. Words are paired together redundantly--empty space or honest truth. WORDS FAIL ME is a witty collection of these unruly words, all set in Monachino's immaculate typography, that demonstrate the offbeat nature of the English language. Questions of spelling, pronunciation or the blatantly nonsensical are illustrated through clever visual representations that are created entirely through artfully manipulated typography. This playful and sometimes hilarious text sorts the homonyms...
Dates: 2006

Words in Three Dimensions / Gonzalez, Fernando; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; DeCampos A; Campos C; Silveira W; Phillips T; Dwyer N; Cheung CH; Hartmann W; Gomringer E; Pignatari D., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31275-32746
Scope and Contents

Fernando Gonzalez reviews the multi media performance of De Campos, Poetry Is Risk, and the concrete poetry movement in Brazil in his first article; he describes the Sackner Archive in the second section. The Sackners are photographed in their gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Words off the Street / Figallo, Anthony., 1995

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Identifier: CC-31116-32582
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a fragment of a newspaper headline. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Words on Walls / Barrett Reid, curator ; Brennan C ; Duke JH ; Murphy P ; Pi O ; Reed S ; Riddell A ; Selenitsch A ; spence p ; thalia ; Tipping R ; Cowan R ; Parr M., 1990

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Identifier: CC-00316-324
Scope and Contents

Tipping's multiple 'Airpoet' that is held by the Sackner Arcive is depicted on page 19. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Words Worth. No.2 / Alaric Sumner, Peter J. King, editors ; George G ; Cheek C ; McCarthy U ; Upton L ; Gibbs M ; Fencott PC ; Griffiths B ; Sharkey JJ ; King P ; Fisher A ; MacLow J ; Green P ; Buck P., 1978

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Identifier: CC-40867-42844
Scope and Contents

Mike Gibbs contributed 4 pages of mirror written, concrete poems printed on translucent paper such that they can be read by viewing the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978