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Conventional poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3927 Collections and/or Records:

Typings (1974-1977), 1979

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Identifier: CC-37674-39548
Scope and Contents

Knowles suffers from autism. This book has two chapters: first chapter: Poems, most were used as lyrics for the opera Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass; second chapter: Other Typings, mostly visual material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Typings (1974-1977), 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-37675-39549
Scope and Contents

Knowles suffers from autism. This book has two chapters: first chapter: Poems, most were used as lyrics for the opera Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass; second chapter: Other Typings, mostly visual material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Typographia 1 , 1976

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-21973-22385
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of typographical exercises interspersed with notes on printing, typography and the private press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Under Milk Wood / Thomas, Dylan., 1954

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Identifier: CC-51180-72268
Scope and Contents This is the 11th printing of the 1st edition of the book. Wikepedia comments: Under Milk Wood is a 1954 play for radio by Dylan Thomas, later adapted for the stage. A film version, Under Milk Wood directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released in 1972. An all-seeing narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of an imaginary small Welsh village, Llareggub (which backwards is bugger all). They include Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly bossing her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. Later, the town wakes and, aware now of how their feelings affect whatever they do, we watch them go about their daily business.The fictional name Llareggub resembles other Welsh place names, which often begin with Llan- (meaning church), but is actually derived from reversing the phrase "bugger all". In early published...
Dates: 1954