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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3963 Collections and/or Records:

Divinations / Nations, Opal L.., 1982

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Identifier: CC-38283-40179
Scope and Contents

Gray Matter Books: Six 23" x 16" cover stock sheets, folded in quarters to yield 48 "pages". Colophon reads: "typeset by harley loud and published by Strange Faeces Magazine / 3952 fruitvale ave oakland ca 94602 (c) 1982". Cover drawing, "OPAL NATIONS & THE SOULTONES (Slab recording artists)," inscribed "Yours Opal Louis Nations" in blue ballpoint directly over the printed signature. Includes poetry, experimental writing, five illustrations ("ads" that include "T"-Bone Walker for Colgate, Johnny Otis for Foam Shave, The Duke of Earl [Gene Chandler] for 7-Up, Little Walter for Delsey toilet tissue and James Brown for General Electric) and the cover drawing described. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Doc(k)s: nature. No.34-37 / Blaine J ; Aguiar F ; Kostelanetz R ; Bootz P ; Strid A ; Padin C ; Garnier P ; Zelevansky L ; Fierens L ; Ferrando B ; Martel R ; Gomez A ; Maggi R ; Serra F ; Bogdanovic N ; Szkarosi E ; Agrafiotis D., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44171-46297
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with the natural world. The DVD depicts a performance involving planting false trees by a large group of people and attaching green balloons as leaves to them. The performance ends when the balloons are cut loose to float upward in the sky. A b&w photograph of the "planting" is printed in this issue of the periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

[Documentation of Archival Material] / curry, jw., 1986

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Identifier: CC-19704-20091
Scope and Contents

Contains information about curry's pre-publication material that had been sent to the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

[Documentation Of Industrial Sabotage No.36 & 37 & Other Works In Curvd H&Z] / curry, jw., 1986

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Identifier: CC-19687-20074
Scope and Contents

Describes the origins of the works published in these issues that were underwritten by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Don Garner's In a Japanese Garden / curry, jw., 1985

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Identifier: CC-19797-20184
Scope and Contents

This was published in Heads & H&Z. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Don't Cry, Scream / Lee, Don L.., 1969

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Identifier: CC-32496-34072
Scope and Contents

Lee is an Afro-American poet who uses language of the black neighborhood in his poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes, 1999

 Item — Box 257: [Barcode: 31858072458262]
Identifier: CC-32660-34246
Scope and Contents

Natalie Gallo was a fifth grade student at Rockway Elementary School when she made this book. The poems on the pages have the theme of stars. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Dossier: Nelson Mandela in Oakland / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08910-9086
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A response to the audience's response to Nelson Mandela's visit to the Oakland Coliseum after his release from prison in South Africa. The colors utilized in the visual presentation are those of the A.N.C. flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Drop Forge. No.3 / DeWit J ; Bukowski C ; Berry J ; Selby S ; Strangulensis F ; Malok., 1994

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Identifier: CC-39347-41297
Scope and Contents

ficus strangulensis contributes a transmorfation entitled "mind warp" and Jake Berry a visual poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Dschamp: Gedichten. No.11 / Heinrich Muller ; Harmut Sorgel ; Thomas Gunther., 1995

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Identifier: CC-16397-16747
Scope and Contents

The text of this issue was done by Heiner Sorgel, a noted East German actor and writer who died in 1995. The printed poems are rendered side by side in an experimental calligraphic, visual/veral style by Sorgel. An extra calligraphic print dedicated to Heiner Muller by Sorgel is numbered 70/100. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Dutch: Domestic Interior / Drucker, Johanna ; Vangelisti P., 1976

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Identifier: CC-15671-15999
Scope and Contents

The back cover is a letter to Paul Vangelisti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Dyslexia/Second Thoughts / Copithorne, Judith., 1987

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Identifier: CC-18523-18895
Scope and Contents

Author listed as Judy rather than Judith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

e i viaggi di Gulliver / Spatola, Adriano; Bense M; Pavanello G; Niccolai G., 1996

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Identifier: CC-37634-39491
Scope and Contents

The loose sheets appear to be notes for a collaborative project by Spatola (deceased) and Pavanello. Maurizio Spatola adds a critical note and Niccolai is interviewed about Tam-Tam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

E pod. No.1/Apr / Eugene Carl, Marshall Reese, editors ; Reese M., 1976

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Identifier: CC-44138-46263
Scope and Contents

This number printed in Holland is inscribed in ink on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976