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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3298 Collections and/or Records:

poetics@ / Kuszai, Joel, editor ; Bernstein C ; Creeley R ; Higgins D ; MacLow J ; Perloff M ; Rothenberg J ; Scalapino L ; Selby S ; Blaser R ; Joris P ; Lazer H ; Murphy S ; Silliman R ; Quartermain P ; Rasula J., 1999

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Identifier: CC-37125-38968
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The material from this book includes 1133 e-mails from 67 writers. In the preface, Charles Bernstein writes that this book "provides a window onto an ongoing, highly articulate, intensely percolating poetics-in-the-making that is a fundamental feature of the most engaging and active poetry of our time." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Poetische Positionen II / Jurgen O. Olbrich, curator ; Graeff MC ; Sutherland WM ; Heidsieck B ; Ono Y ; Schmid J., 2006

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Identifier: CC-54546-990003
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The collage by Joachem Schmid depicted in this record is reminiscent of the style employed in a collge by Rachel Perry Welty held by the Sackner Archive. The Sackner Archive also holds an alphabetical collage by Heidsisck that is in the same style as those depicted in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Poetische Positionen III / Jurgen O. Olbrich, curator ; Barry R ; Godard K ; Gut H ; Skuber B ; Stake C., 2006

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Identifier: CC-54547-990004
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This catalogue has two loose trading cards by Chuck Stake along with a chronology of the art form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Poetry As a Performance Art on and off the Page / Robson, Ernest ; Kern B ; Kostelanetz R ; Williams E ; Porter B ; MacLow J., 1976

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Identifier: CC-39248-41194
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This book consists of a critical essay on poetry performance. Robson concludes in his summary, "Yet, we do know that over the last few decades a growing number of ways of writing the symbols of 'natural' language have developed...and that compositions and performances of poetry have begun to relate in unprecedented ways that increase the powers of expression of the poet..on-the-page...and off-the-page...with fewer words." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Poetry Image Expression Sound - Basen Obraz Gesto Zvuk: Experimental Poetry of the 1960s / Adamus K ; Burda V ; Hirsal J ; Grogerova B ; Honys J ; Havel V ; Julis E ; Kolarova B ; Kolar J ; Novak L ; Ovcacek E ; Rudolf P ; Trinkewitz K ; Valoch J ; DeCampos A ; Dohl R ; Furnival J ; Garnier I ; Garnier P ; Gomringer E ; Hausmann R ; Houedard DS ; Chopin H ; Kriwet F ; Lora-Totino A ; Mayer HJ ; Mon F ; Miccini E ; Roth D ; Schmidt SJ ; Stankowsky A ; Nebesky L., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27819-28952
Scope and Contents This exhibition aimed to document the aesthetic shift that took place in the 1960's and 70's in Czech concrete poetry, art, letters and images. Josef Hlavacek writes in his introduction, ''The relationship between the image and the letter could be called mutual initiation. It became evident that the letter as an object not only of literary but also of artistic interest has a long history with particular accents in classical antiquity, the era of the Baroque and the avant-garde of the 1910s and '20s...The experiment in poetry was brought about by what was essentially a direct reaction to the problematic line of civic poetry...[Then] attention became focused on the word as an independent phenomenon and language...A third stimulus stemmed from a strong interest in how art mediates information about the outer world through artistic signs, doing so in a much more direct way than the spoken or written word." The exhibition featured small magazines, exhibition catalogues and books of the...
Dates: 1997

Poetry Listing. No.1., 1988

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Identifier: CC-03872-3945
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Compiled by David Hart. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Poetry Listing. No.2., 1989

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Identifier: CC-03873-3946
Scope and Contents

Compiled by David Hart. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Poetry Plastique / Andre C ; Antin D ; Arakawa ; Bee S ; Berman W ; Bersenbrugge M ; Smith Kiki ; Bok C ; Cage J ; Coolidge C ; Guston P ; Creeley R ; Drucker J ; Freeman B ; Frampton H ; Gins M ; Goldsmith K ; Grenier R ; Hejinian L ; MacLow J ; McCaffery S ; McVarish E ; Phillips T ; Piombino N ; Scalapino L ; Schor M ; Smithson R ; Snow M ; Tuttle R ; Bernstein C ; Werschler-Henry D ; Sanders E., 2001

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Identifier: CC-35669-37419
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This exhibition deals with poetry off the page onto the walls of the gallery, including sculptures, paintings, films and videos. Curated by Jay Sanders and Charles Bernstein, the works "offer a constellation of intellectually compelling, poetically dense, visually dazzling works that represent some of the most exciting efforts in current practice." Catalogue essays were contributed by Jay Sanders and Charles Bernstein. Johanna Drucker's text is titled, "Plastic Modalities: Emerging Sentience." Tom Phillips' text is from "Notes on A Humument." The Sackners lent eight original pages from "A Humument." John Cage describes his work "Not Wanting To Say Anything About Marcel," a work lent to the exhibition by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Poetry Project, The. No.151/Oct-Nov / Weiner H., 1993

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Identifier: CC-04624-4711
Scope and Contents

Johanna Drucker reviews a book, "The Fast," by Hannah Weiner and Jackson MacLow contributes a remembrance of John Cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993