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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Axle. No.19/Dec / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Tipping R ; Janecek G ; Sullivan P., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-27049-27523
Scope and Contents

Meeting minutes mention Richard Tipping's description of his visit to the Sackner Archive and his display of the reprint from "At Home with Books." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Axle. No.34/Mar / Bulatov D., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28489-29763
Scope and Contents

Includes a long interview between Russian poet Dmitry Bulatov and journalist Sergei Ermakov concerning visual poetry in Russia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Axle. No.44/Feb / Burt W., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-29992-31383
Scope and Contents

Warren Burt contributed three poems and an excerpt about political extermination by Stalin in the Ukraine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Babel (Peace for the World) / Furnival, John., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-13293-13594
Scope and Contents

This print was reprinted in 1995 on different paper stock (Arches 88). This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011) page 34. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Bad / curry, jw; Laba, Mark., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-19710-20097
Scope and Contents

This is an unpublished experimental calligraphic text for the poem, Bad, Coma Goats #40, 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

baie stadig sak de gehoor / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-36485-38282
Scope and Contents

According to Boshoff, this piece was done on the same typewriter as "KYKAFRIKANNS." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Balaio Incomun / Cirne, Moacy; Ulrichs T., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-20626-21028
Scope and Contents

This is a selection of concrete poems composed by Cirne from 1986-1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Balam Malab / Bennett, John M.., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-51573-72672
Scope and Contents

This folded broadside was printed by Tyson Sutherland on a Vandercook Universal I letterpress at The Ohio State University Libraries' Book Arts Laboratory in April 2010. Text and design by John M. Bennett. The letterforms are assorted wood types; the paper is Arches Cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Balling Buddha / Giorno, John ; Levine L., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-36322-38112
Scope and Contents

The poems deal with the Vietnam War, homoeroticism, heteroeroticism, and Buddhist religion. The cover was designed by Les Levine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Bamboo / Hasekura, Takako., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29598-30969
Scope and Contents

The drawing, written in green and yellow inks, depicts five thick vertical bars, filled with Japanese ideograms, shaped like bamboo shoot . It is labeled "Bamboo by Japanese Alphabet." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[Bank] / Poets. Painters. Composers.., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-53208-74360
Scope and Contents

At the top of the card, the words, Columbia Center split the word, BANK. This copy of the card is printed on blue papercard while another copy is printed on yellow papercard. Columbia Center (formerly Bank of America Tower and Columbia Seafirst Center) is the tallest skyscraper in the downtown Seattle skyline, as well as the tallest building in the State of Washington, and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

[Bank] / Poets. Painters. Composers.., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-04042-4120
Scope and Contents

This copy of the card is printed on yellow papercard while another copy is printed on blue papercard.Columbia Center (formerly Bank of America Tower and Columbia Seafirst Center) is the tallest skyscraper in the downtown Seattle skyline, as well as the tallest building in the State of Washington, and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Bark/Barque/Baroque / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nash, John R.., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12180-12404
Scope and Contents

Finlay comments on the verso of this card that the text moves from the plain (or Doric) tree-bark to the Baoque via the elaborate barque or three-masted sailing ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Basen - Mobil II / Karel Trinkewitz., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-34810-36518
Scope and Contents

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed varied colored words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains four collaged printed papers of reproductions of works by Trinkewitz. One has a hand written text "How to Made Advertising." The second paper is hand lettered "Layout Trinkewitz." The third states "Trinkewitz 63." Also collaged on the verso bottom is a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Basen - Mobil II / Karel Trinkewitz., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-34810-36518
Scope and Contents

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed varied colored words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains four collaged printed papers of reproductions of works by Trinkewitz. One has a hand written text "How to Made Advertising." The second paper is hand lettered "Layout Trinkewitz." The third states "Trinkewitz 63." Also collaged on the verso bottom is a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964