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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

wrecking ballzark, th: Pornograph 2nd Ed. No.13 / jw curry ; Aylward D., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-53364-100055
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd edition of the poem first published as Curvd H&Z #23. Also designated Curvd H&z No.46 and pomez a penny #29. The poem consists of the fragmentation of the word "incest." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: Pornograph. No.7 / jw curry., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-53360-63133
Scope and Contents

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.23 and pomez a penny #14. Poem consists of the fragmentation of the word "incest." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: Seven Portaits - Ra. No.26/May / Richard Truhlar., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-40035-42003
Scope and Contents

Also designated in "Curvd H&Z" series as No.89. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: Seven Portraits - Ra. No.26/May / Richard Truhlar., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-52080-73190
Scope and Contents

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.89. The images appear to have been made by letraset. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: Shift. No.20/Sep / jw curry., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-53372-63143
Scope and Contents

The letters of this poem are set apart and smudged except for the SH of SHIFT to imply motion. The SH is printed together possibly to draw a scatologic inference. This work is also designated Curvd H&Z No.69 and Hangnail #3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: Sound Poem 3. No.18 / William Maki., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-53369-63141
Scope and Contents

This poem morphs the words 'dismay and Mayhem' into 'dismayhem.' It is also designated curvd H&Z No.60 and pomez a penny #38. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: Sound Poem #7. No.54/Aug / William Maki ; curry jw., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-53120-74270
Scope and Contents

Also designated th wrecking ballzark #54 and one cent #124. The cover was designed by jw curry. The sound poem appears to have its roots in a Native American chant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: The Child Is The Only Gat. No.10 / Greg Andely., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-53362-63134
Scope and Contents

Some of the poems, one to a page, demonstrate word play through alteration of a single letter, e.g., 'artistic - autistic,' and 'games of slaughter - games of laughter.' Also designated Curvd H&Z No.37.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: The Evolution Of English. No.3 / jw curry., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-53357-63129
Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: The Life & Rhymes 2nd ed.. No.1 / jw curry., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-53356-63128
Scope and Contents

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.5. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: The Life & Rhymes 3rd Edition. No.5/Nov / jw curry., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-53358-63131
Scope and Contents

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.19. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: Theory 1-4. No.63/Mar / bp Nichol., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-52074-73179
Scope and Contents

Also designated th wrecking ballzark #63. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: Theory Of Mailing 2nd Ed. No.17 / David Aylward., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-51942-73043
Scope and Contents

The poem reads 'POST-TU-LATE.' T his is the 2nd edition of a poem first published by Ganglia 1969. Also designated pomez a penny #37 and Curvd H&Z #59. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: To Go Home. No.56/Oct / Mark Laba., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-53121-74272
Scope and Contents

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.243. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: W. No.31/Nov / Steven Smith., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-52079-73188
Scope and Contents

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.110. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Writers Forum 1992 is the Anniversary Year / Cobbing, Bob., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-20345-20742
Scope and Contents

Depicts reproduction of first visual poem made on copying machine in 1942 and another in 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Writers Forum Check List of Publications / Cobbing, Bob, editor., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-17736-18105
Scope and Contents

Provides a listing grouped under the classifications used by Cobbing for the publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Writers Forum / Cobbing, Bob ; Claire P ; Cage J ; curry jw ; Firnberg V ; McCaffery S ; DeWit J ; Houedard DS ; Bentivoglio M ; Nuttall J ; levy da ; bissett b., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-20204-20600
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

writing / Hill, Crag., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-60803-10003657
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Writing Series: Pressures #2 / Kallman, Edith., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-61630-10007091
Scope and Contents The word "pressures" is repeatitively written in the image. The Passdoor (Sebastopol CA) website Edith Kallman (1926-2014) was unique in her approach, using the repetition of words in a calligraphic style to create intricate patterns. Her spirals and grids offer us personal and social messages that vanish into graphic images. "Such words and phrases as: Obsessive, Pressures, And On and On, serve as titles...the words stimulate viewer participation and experience." Edith was influenced by the abstract expressionist painters of the 50"s and 60's, and contemporary artists of her time: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. You can see their influence in her use of color fields and gestural brush strokes. In the early 70"s she developed her own style, which challenged the aesthetic establishment of her times. She was highly influenced by the Graffiti Art movement...
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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