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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly. No.3-4 / Ted Plantos, editor ; curry jw ; Copithorne J ; Nichol bp ; Gorman L ; Basmajian S ; UU D ; bissett b ; Evason G ; lefler P ; Wah F ; Riddell J ; Shikatani G ; Power N ; Truhlar R., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-20774-21179
Scope and Contents

Includes several essays on the historic beginnings of Canadian concrete, visual, and sound poetry. The Archive for the essay by jw curry, Defying Linear Deification... is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Crossword, 1975

 Item — Box Axelrod-Baker: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-25344-25800
Scope and Contents

The block letterforms with equal dimensions and spacings have positive/negative structures that give rise to optical effects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

CSCARD: Precarious Presumptions (for Stuart). Jun / curry, jw ; Books, Jennifer., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-37893-39773
Scope and Contents

The text by curry is a poem that lists words that become decreasingly briefer, starting with communicability...communication...common... come...c. Books contributed the background photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

CSCARD: Precarious Presumptions. No.7/Aug / jw curry., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37161-39004
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts an abstract landscape with variations of the word communicability in a column from top to botton superimposed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Ctyri Basne / Hirsal, Josef., 1965

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Identifier: CC-36688-38502
Scope and Contents The English translation of the title is "four poems." According to Sims Reed (Modern Books April 2011), Four visual poems by Josef Hirsal created using repetitive words, typographic motifs or repeated letters. Loose as issued in original publisher's black paper wrappers, typographic motif of Hirsal's initials in gilt and green to front wrapper. Rare samizdat collection of visual poems by the Czech poet Josef Hirsal.Josef Hirsal (1920 - 2003), renowned experimental Czech poet, Surrealist, childrens' book author, friend of artist and poet Jiri Kolar and co-signatory of Charta 77 published this short collection of innovative visual poems in 1965. The poems use repeated words to build up a visual and sonic matrix, on the page and the tongue. The first poem consists of a repeated series of words: 'bude je bylo' that gradually - through typographic manipulation - reverse into 'bylo je bude'. The second poem is a repeated grouping of consonants ('c', 'h', 'm', 'n', and 't') used to create...
Dates: 1965

Cultures / Fisher, Roy; Tyson I; King R., 1975

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Identifier: CC-11454-11670
Scope and Contents

Each print has a round shape; the clustered phrases are printed in a circular manner. The design is by Ian Tyson and production with Ron King at Circle press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Cum See Cum Sa / Anonymous., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-26906-27379
Scope and Contents

The object is a moebus strip with printed continuous text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Cum See Cum Sa / Anonymous., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-26906-27379
Scope and Contents

The object is a moebus strip with printed continuous text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Cunts Are For Piss / Depew, Wally., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-51095-72177
Scope and Contents

This print is presented folded and when unfolded as depicted in the accompanying images has an additional message. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Curvd H&Z: A History. No.105/Sep / Mark Laba., 1981

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Identifier: CC-18223-18595
Scope and Contents

Also designated one cent (pomez a penny) #68 and th wrecking ballzark #30. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981