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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Asia / Biro, Jozsef ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2005

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Identifier: CC-48586-69617
Scope and Contents

It is stated that this edition was sponsored by Ruth and Marvin Sackner. Biro recounts a tour through the far east with poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

asphodel: ode for james russell lowell* (091266) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-56031-9999483
Scope and Contents

This is an "ode for james russwll lowell" of the Asphodel Bookshop in Cleveland.The poem reads, 'hallucinogenitalia,' suggesting a mocking of the police action.The text at the bottom of the page reads,"arrested 011266 by narcotics agents under a secret indictment by the county grand jury for possession & distribution of obscene poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
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

Assassin in the Theater / Rosen, Kay., 1987

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Identifier: CC-03134-3183
Dates: 1987
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

Assassins & Conservators (011266) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; McCarthy C., 1966

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Identifier: CC-61934-58912
Dates: 1966
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

Assembling: Eighth Assembling (A-J). No.8 / Richard Kostelanetz ; Henry Korn ; Compilers ; Ascher S ; Buchwalder E ; Frank P ; Gaglione B ; Helmes S ; Anderson B ; Arnold D ; Doria C ; Gordon B ; Drake A ; Forget C ; Gibbs M ; Straus DL ; Allen B ; Arnold P ; Bennett JM ; Brown RD ; Bressi B ; Truck F ; Elwert C ; Grayson R ; Glass Jjr., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-25308-25764
Scope and Contents

This issue includes particularly good examples of typewritten concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Assembling: Eighth Assembling (K-Z). No.8 / Richard Kostelanetz ; Henry Korn ; Compilers ; Kostelanetz R ; Lomholt N ; Rahmmings K ; Phillips MJ ; Porter B ; Rosenberg MR ; Saville K ; Seaman D ; Young K ; Spiegelman L ; Ulrichs T ; Noel A ; Varney E ; Mew T ; Moore C ; Myers GJr ; Rutzky IS ; Shekerjian H ; Leon SJ ; Morgan R ; Shekerjian R ; Trawick L ; Williams R ; Doria C ; Musicmaster ; Oisteanu V., 1978

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Identifier: CC-25309-25765
Scope and Contents

This issue Includes concrete poetic broadsides by Ivy Sky Rutzky, "Blade Rein," and several by Haig & Regina Shekerjian that were acquired as seperate items by the Sackner Archive. Ann Noel [Williams] contributed a positive/negative reversal of the characteristics of letters poem, recto-verso, in a style after another example held by the Sackner Archive which begins, "After you have selected..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Assembling. No.1 / Henry Korn ; Richard Kostelanetz ; Compilers ; Korn H ; Kostelanetz R ; Lax R ; Acconci V ; Arakawa ; Gins M ; Phillips MJ ; Ruscha E ; Federman R., 1970

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Identifier: CC-25296-25752
Scope and Contents Dana Atchley's "Notebook 1," an Assembling, was published in March 1970 about the same time as Assembling No.1. Ed Ruscha contributed a piece entitled, "Chocolate" that consists of the word "Chocolate" printed on one page and a hand applied chocolate smear on the following sheet. This is the first periodical to utilize the term, "Assembling." Contemporary Assembling magazines arouse from the topology of correspondence art. As common reference points for its geographically dispersed participants, they functioned as alternative spaces for exhibiting work, places where invitations for projects could be broadcast and coupled with the growing practice of listing contributor's addresses, initiators of community building. Equally important, they provided correspondence art with an image of itself, a momentary snapshot that illuminated the scope and breadth of its activities. Self-published in small print runs, utilizing available print technologies, these periodicals were distributed...
Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Astrid Furnival: Ariadne's Thread / Moxham, Bernard, editor ; Furnival J ; Phillips T ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2014

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Identifier: CC-59813-10002866
Scope and Contents

Box is labeled Bernard Moxham. He is the editor of this volume of Astrid Furnival's knitted works. The contents include Ruth Sackner photographed wearing the sweaters " Un Coup de Des" and "Be Fruitful and Multiply." Marvin Sackner is photographed wearing "Samuel Beckett - Breath." Also photographed and in the Sackner Archive are"Satie Sat At Tea" and "The Garden." All these works were photographed by Barbara Bollini. Astrid's wall hanging work "Roses Arose" is in the collection of Sara Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Astrologic Chart (original version) / UU, David., 1967

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Identifier: CC-48426-69453
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: David UU (pronounced David W.), or David W. Harris, (1948"“1994) is considered an accomplished concrete and experimental poet and an important small press publisher. Along with bill bissett and bpNichol, he was a pioneer of the concrete poetry movement in Canada, and perhaps the first Canadian poet to explore visual collage embodying literary, philosophical and language references. He also composed sound works (both musical & textual), made 8mm short films, was a master collagist/montagist and performed in numerous performance art exhibitions. David W. Harris was born on June 13, 1948, in Barrie, Ontario. The family moved to Collingwood in 1958, where he lived until setting out for Toronto in 1966. He left Toronto for Vancouver in 1968 and over the next decade relocated between Ontario and the west coast several times. In 1980 he settled in North Vancouver where he lived until finally moving to a farmhouse near Delhi, Ontario in 1992 where he died in May, 1994. On...
Dates: 1967
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

Astrologic Chart (rebuilt for High C) / UU, David., 1983

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Identifier: CC-48427-69454
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: Various Formats

Astronauts of Inner-Space: An International Collection of Avant Garde Activity, 1966

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Identifier: CC-23139-23577
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

Asymmetry: A Symphony / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19864-20252
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: Various Formats

at det at./ laesealbum / Nielsen, Hans-Jorgen., 1965

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Identifier: CC-57667-53724
Scope and Contents

The title translates from the Danish to English as 'The Castle.'Wikipedia: Hans-Jorgen Nielsen (23 June 1941 in Herlufmagle - 10 April 1991) was a Danish author and critic who mainly wrote poems and essays but was known to the general public for his novel Football angel , 1979 . The latter has been characterized as a generation novel, and got great success with and importance to the period adolescents. It has been translated into several languages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

At Different Hours: An Anthology of Verbo-Visual Works 1984 - 2005 / Bertola, Carla., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48505-69534
Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

At Home with Books / Ellis, Estelle ; Seebohm, Caroline ; Sykes, Christopher Simon ; Minsky R ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Wolfson Mjr ; Harris E ; Harris T ; Doner MO., 1995

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Identifier: CC-14317-14625
Scope and Contents

This is a sumptiously colored illustrated book on 40 book collectors and the way they live with and care for their books in their residences. The Sackners and Micky Wolfson collections are described in a section of the book entitled, "The Grand Passion." The collections of the Harris', Richard Minsky, and Michele Oka Doner are described in a section entitled, "Beautiful Bookscapes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

At Sunrise, 1968

 Item — Box Adler: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-37577-39434
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed with the same layout as the one with the same title but with "Chinese-like lettering" in conventional hand printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

At Sunrise (Chinese-like lettering), 1968

 Item — Folder 51: [Barcode: 31858072537842]
Identifier: CC-37572-39429
Scope and Contents

In a personal communication to the Sackners, Adler commented that this poem-drawing was an attempt at a new visual alphabet equivalent to Chinese lettering. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

atlanTopia / And, Miekal., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-48835-69870
Scope and Contents

And notes that this work utilized the 4,918 words of the combined vocabulary of Thomas More's Utopia (1616) and Sir Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis (1623). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Atlas / Antunes, Arnaldo, editor ; Borges, Beto, editor ; Silveira, Walter, editor ; Jungle, Tadeu, editor ; Leminski P ; Mendonca J ; Ferrari L ; DeCampos A ; Braga E ; Bonvicino R ; Leirner J ; Grunewald JL ; Tragtenberg L ; Pignatari D ; Oiticica H ; Vallias A ; DeCampos H ; Khouri O ; Jungle T ; Xisto P ; Tunga ; Blackberry W ; Albino de Souza E ; Silveira R ; Vinci L ; Ramiro M ; Moreau F ; Borges B ; Vallias A., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-26868-27339
Scope and Contents

This is a profusely illustrated compendiu, pf Brazilizm comcrete and visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Atom-Elegien / Nash, Jurgen., 1946

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Identifier: CC-58033-53244
Scope and Contents

A poem on page 25 has a proto=concrete style to it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1946
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

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