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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3963 Collections and/or Records:

The Guardian Recto, 1979

 Item — Folder 2: [Barcode: 31858072459401]
Identifier: CC-13064-13359
Scope and Contents

This lengthy poem is illustrated by a surrealistic building. -- 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 / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript / Phillips, Rodney, editor ; Carroll L ; cummings ee ; Ginsberg A ; Kunitz S ; Padgett R ; Olson C ; Snyder G ; Smith WJ ; Blake W ; Kerouac J., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27706-28797
Scope and Contents The two-part exhibition "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters" was organized by Rodney Phillips, curator of the Berg Collection, as part of the Centennial celebration of The New York Public Library. This catalogue is based on the exhibitions which presented writers from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries with drafts, letters, diaries. photographs and memorabilia in a personal and intimate setting. An essay by Dana Gioia, "The Prado of Poetry: A History of the Berg Collection" describes the background of Dr. Albert and Dr. Henry Berg and how their collection became one of the world's primary sources for literary research on American and English writers. In a scholarly introductory essay, "The Magical Value of Manuscripts," Dana Gioia writes, "The manuscript of a literary work became more than words; it represented a direct and unmediated physical link between viewer and author - a holy relic or shamanistic fetish...The scholarly alibi of libraries that...
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

The Hanged Man: In Memory of Mitch Snyder / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08909-9085
Scope and Contents

Poem in homage to the homeless advocate, Mitch Snyder, who had recently committed suicide, and the sweep of the homeless from Civic Center in San Francisco. As Hirschman states, this is an ongoing struggle, i.e., a half-mast flag hangs at City Hall (ironically and hypocritically) and thus his symbolic allusion at the poem's ending. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

The Harbour / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11940-12163
Scope and Contents

The photograph on the card was taken by Dianne Tammes. This poem was adapted from Finlay's publication, "A Mast of Hankies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
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

the henry miller acrostics / Wilmarth, Henry ; Miller H., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-31191-32659
Scope and Contents

Although the title indicates that the poems are acrostics, actually they are mesostics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

The Hound Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1998

 Item — Folder 52: [Barcode: 31858072537867]
Identifier: CC-33586-35239
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
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

The Hound Arcane / Falk, Agneta; Hirschman, Jack A.., 1997

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Identifier: CC-31590-33088
Dates: 1997
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

The Husband of the Writer's Wife / Saunders, Jack., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30756-32201
Scope and Contents

Saunders writes about his career in graduate school and his philosophy of life with his wife Brenda. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Journal. No.2/Fall-Win / Huth G., 1988 - 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-46613-49343
Scope and Contents

This issue includes a poem by Geof Huth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988 - 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

The Kingdom of Bran / Humphries, Emyr ; Holmes, Keith., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-53959-59873
Scope and Contents

This is adapted from the Mabinogi Text. -- 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: Books

the labia contract / curry, jw., 1979

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Identifier: CC-19693-20080
Scope and Contents

The labia contort was published in Curvd H&Z No.3, 1979, after having been rejected for Jim Smith's The Front. -- 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

The Lacemaker / Clark, Thomas A.; Clark, Laurie., 1982

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Identifier: CC-20157-20552
Dates: 1982
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

The Last Blewointment Anthology (Vol.1: AC-LE: 1963-1983) / bissett, bill, editor ; Atwood M ; Gilbert G ; bissett b ; Broudy H ; Cobbing B ; Copithorne J ; curry jw ; DiPrima D ; Farrell L ; Gadd M ; Hollingshead R ; Jankola B ; Lachance B ; Lantz C ; levy da ; Kearns L ; Birney E., 1985

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Identifier: CC-23027-23464
Scope and Contents One copy placed has been placed in bill bissett box, the otherin blewointment press box. John W. Doull: BISSETT, Bill. The Last Blewointment Anthology 1963-1983. Volume 1 : AC-LE.(Toronto : Nightwood Editions, 1985). Pp (2),[1]-123,(3). Illustrated. 4to, illustrated blue card covers. "During its twenty-year history blewointment offered unprecedented access to publication to a wide variety of artistsand writers, among them some of Canada's most important and influential poets. In "the last blolewointment anthology," bill bissett has selected excerpts from the press's vast output of books, magazines and anthologies. In his introduction, he explains how the press came into existence and how it brought the work of bissett and many others before the public. "the last blewointment anthology" has been divided into two volumes. Volume 1- "AC to LE"- features Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Deidre Ballantyne, Earle Birney, bill bissett, ooljah bissett, Yvonne Bond, Hart...
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

the less obscure southern english vowels by the score (230467) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-08619-8791
Scope and Contents

This typing consists of four group of words where the second letters are a, e, i and o. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

The Life and Poems of Osceola Mays / Govenar, Alan., 1989

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Identifier: CC-10345-10548
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: Booklets

The Lost Book of Paradise / Rosenberg, David., 1993

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Identifier: CC-46263-48984
Scope and Contents

This Lost Book of Pradise, the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, is restored by the author from old manuscripts and ancient longings. "It is a poetic rendering of a paradise stormy with emotional deprivation and strife." Rosenberg imagines a lost Hebraic culture and probes the relationship of Adam and Eve to nature and its promise of change and growth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Lost Book of Paradise / Rosenberg, David., 1993

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Identifier: CC-50439-71507
Scope and Contents

This Lost Book of Pradise, the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, is restored by the author from old manuscripts and ancient longings. "It is a poetic rendering of a paradise stormy with emotional deprivation and strife." Rosenberg imagines a lost Hebraic culture and probes the relationship of Adam and Eve to nature and its promise of change and growth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Lucidities / Williams, Jonathan ; Furnival, John., 1967

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Identifier: CC-27770-28898
Scope and Contents

Two semi-realistic prints on gold foil and two on silver foil by Furnival are laid into the book. Comments on each of his poems are placed by Williams at the bottom of each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books

The Mack Bolan Poems / Laba, Mark., 1985

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Identifier: CC-30406-31825
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

The Magritte Poems (varient cover) / Weiner, Hannah ; Depew W., 1970

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Identifier: CC-48145-69168
Scope and Contents

These poems describe Magritte paintings in terse terms. The cover of this booklet that was designed by Wally Depew depicts an abstract green woodcut on tan paper. The Sackner Archive also holds the Archive of this work. One copy is stored in a Wally Depew box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Booklets

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