Conventional poetry

The Philosophy of Umbrellas, 2008

Item — Box 46: [Barcode: 31858072460805]

Identifier: CC-48030-69053

Scope and Contents

The text printed on the red umbrella is by Robert Louis Stevenson. The colophon is printed on a circular paper fastened to the tip of the umbrella. It states that this edition is dedicated to Judith A. Hoffberg, whose passion for artists' books led her to become the Founder and Editor of Umbrella, a resource for news and documentation of contemporary book art since 1978. Judith is co-founder of The Art Librarians Society of North America (ARLIS/NA). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Richard Minsky

The Poetry Library of the Arts Council of Great Britain: Short-Title Catalogue 6th edition / Barker, Jonathan., 1981

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Identifier: CC-21468-21879

Scope and Contents

Introduction by Philip Larkin. -- 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: Books

The Pre-Linguistic Heights, 1970

Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]

Identifier: CC-20849-21258

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 / BOOKS

The Projects, 1979

Item — Folder 65: [Barcode: 31858072537990]

Identifier: CC-18769-19143

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 Puking Pidgeon #1 or The Fucking Duck #1 or The Search for the Holy Houkah / levy, d.a, editor ; Wyatt B ; Dagmar ; Katzman A ; Blackburn P ; Garcia L., 1966

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Identifier: CC-07623-7768

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The painted drawing on the cover was done by levy. Bill Wyatt, is a British poet who carried on a correspondence with levy. Several letters from this interaction are held by the Sackner Archive. Printed by d.a. levy. -- 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: Booklets

The Pure / Swanberg, Ingrid Markhardt., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48354-69380

Dates: 2008

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 Rationalist Manifest: Why to Work / De Vries, Herman., 1968

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Identifier: CC-15324-15648

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: Various Formats

The Red Flag / Jack A. Hirschman; P Pasolini., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08840-9015

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Book consists of Hirschman's translation of a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The last lines of the poem are on the covers; the inside pages are intentionally illegiblized to reflect the trashing of the flag, part of the poem itself. -- 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 Relic / Stetser, Carol., 2002

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Identifier: CC-40021-41989

Dates: 2002

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 Revolution / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1990

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Identifier: CC-11819-12038

Dates: 1990

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 Rotzone Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]

Identifier: CC-31598-33096

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 / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Rotzone Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

Item — Folder 46: [Barcode: 31858072460052]

Identifier: CC-33583-35236

Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush and added figurative images in acrylic paint. -- 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 / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Russian Catalogue (Fall) / Lame Duck Books ; Jaffe, James S. ; Altman N ; Annenkoff G ; Khlebnikov V ; Mayakovsky V ; Burliuk D ; Burliuk N ; Blok A ; Brik L ; Aragon L ; Brodsky J ; Kruchenykh A ; Ehrenburg I ; Erte ; Yevtushenko Y ; Goncharova N ; Havel V ; Malevich K ; Kundera M ; Larionov M ; Lissitzky E ; Mandelstam O ; Seifert J ; Teige K ; Voznesensky A., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37756-39634

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This listing of Russian & Slavic books, documents and original art has extensive annotations. Charles Vallely contributes a forward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

The Scream / First Draft., 1984

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Identifier: CC-11382-11598

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First Draft is an intermedia collaborative arts group. The theme of the scream is based on the painting by Munch by the same name. -- 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: Books

The Seer in the Weird / Berry, Jake, editor ; Miskowski M ; Polkinhorn H ; Foley J ; Berry J ; Kostelanetz R ; Bennett JM ; Altemus R., 1990

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Identifier: CC-23637-24084

Dates: 1990

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 Selected Poetry Of Vicente Huidobro / Huidobro, Vicente ; David M. Guss, translator ; W. S. Merwin, translator ; David Ossman, translator ; Jerome Rothenberg, translator ; Elliot Weinberger, translator ; Geoffrey Young, translator., 1981

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Identifier: CC-55082-59117

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: Books

The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton / Mott, Michael ; Merton T ; Williams J ; Lax R., 1984

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Identifier: CC-54440-989934

Scope and Contents This is the first edkition, first printing of the book. Page 202 mentions Merton's periodical "Monk's Pond" and his concrete poetry on page 502. The Sackner Archive also holds two original typewriter poems by Mott.Wikipedia: Michael Mott was born in London. His father was a solicitor and his mother was a sculptor from Denver, Colorado. Mott was educated in America and England. After his service in the British Army, he attended Oriel College of Oxford University, then art school and a year traveling in Europe and the Middle East. Mott then began his literary career taking a job in 1956 as the editor of trade journal, Air Freight. In 1957, his first collection of poetry, The Cost of Living, was published. On May 6 1961, Mott married Margaret Watt, a fashion designer, at St. John's Wood Church, London. In 1962, as the couple welcomed twin daughters, Mott's first novel The Notebooks of Susan Berry was published. Reviewer Kenneth Allsop writing for the Daily Mail called the book, "a...

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: Books