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Erotica

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 151 Collections and/or Records:

Snatch Pad / Volatile., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-31749-33261
Scope and Contents

The pad is printed with the identical picture of a female crotch. The card reads Happy New Year! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Soluble Boundaries / Shore, Paul., 1987

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Identifier: CC-47212-49955
Scope and Contents

This is a facsimile of Shore's sketchbook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Something Leather, 1990

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Identifier: CC-31883-33406
Scope and Contents

This story in this book deals with lesbian love and sexual bondage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Strawberry Sunday, 1999

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Identifier: CC-36572-38374
Scope and Contents

The images accompanying the text are mostly unrelated to each other. The authors are Francis Osowski and Leonie aka Catherine Bourbon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Subvers: Poezie Voor De Modale Liefhebber. No.12 / Anonymous., 1972

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Identifier: CC-34263-35954
Scope and Contents

The erotic stories in this book consist of a brief paragraph in three languages. They appear to be a parody of the title of the publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Sulfur. No.42/Spr / Cole N ; Schneeman C ; MacLow J ; Hollo A ; Apollinaire G ; Eshleman C ; Adair G ; Fisher A ; Sheppard R., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29874-31261
Scope and Contents

Robert Sheppard contributes an essay dealing with the British equivalent of Language Poetry, "Linguistially Innovative Poetry," a term coined by Gilvert Adair in 1988 which was probably operating since 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Sweat & Saliva Series, 2001

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-37208-39052
Scope and Contents

Wescher wrote alternating recipes and romantic phrases on a place setting of off-white dishes. For example, the bowl combines a recipe for tomato basil soup with "2 warm bodies" and "2 sets free roaming hands." The dessert dish calls for "express cream, ricotta cheese" and "2 pairs caressing hands," and "2 pairs soft lips." The appetizer plate reads, "spicy grilled shrimp, 2 eyes with lashes painted." The salad plate is for strawberry-avocado salad with "2 pairs soft lips 1/4 cup olive oil, 2 wet tongues." The main course, on a dinner plate, is "chicken and asparagus, black bean enchiladas, 2 warm bodies." The texts were written in a circular pattern starting from the outside edge to the center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Books: 1978-1998 / Pettibon, Raymond., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35907-37671
Scope and Contents

This book is a catalogue raisonne of Pettibon's artists books produced between 1978 and 1998; it reprints over 100 of Pettibon's publications of original edition sizes ranging from 80 to 150 copies. The book includes a 71 page introductory essay by Roberto Ohrt who edited the book, first published in a hard cover edition by Walther Konig in Cologne, Germany. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Stripteaser / Girodias, Maurice, editor ; Miller H ; DeSade DAF ; Bataille G., 1953

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Identifier: CC-51381-72473
Scope and Contents This promotional book reprints translated excerpts five books of the press including Geoge Bataille's "Tale of Satisfied Desire " (under the pseudonym of Pierre Angelique). This book is replete with b&w photographs of female nudes. Wikepedia states: "Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebadged version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane. It published a mix of erotic novels and avant-garde literary works, and is best known for the first print of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. 94 Olympia Press publications were promoted and packaged as "Traveller's Companion" books, usually with simple text-only covers, and each book in the series was numbered. The "Ophelia Press" line of erotica was far larger, using the same design, but pink covers instead of green. Olympia Press was also the first publisher willing to print the controversial William S. Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch. Other notable works included J. P....
Dates: 1953

The Teaser Pure and Simple / Girodias, Maurice, editor ; Desmond R., 1953

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Identifier: CC-51382-72474
Scope and Contents This promotional book reprints excerpts of books from the press and is replete with b&w photographs of female nudes. Wikepedia states: "Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebadged version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane. It published a mix of erotic novels and avant-garde literary works, and is best known for the first print of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. 94 Olympia Press publications were promoted and packaged as "Traveller's Companion" books, usually with simple text-only covers, and each book in the series was numbered. The "Ophelia Press" line of erotica was far larger, using the same design, but pink covers instead of green. Olympia Press was also the first publisher willing to print the controversial William S. Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch. Other notable works included J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man; the French trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett; A Tale of...
Dates: 1953

The Unfortunates, 1969

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Identifier: CC-32501-34078
Scope and Contents

This novel consists of a first and last section, four and six pages in length, respectively. The other sections range from one to 12 pages in length. The reader is instructed to read the first and last sections of the book in their order while reading the other 25 sections in random order. The story revolves around a football reporter who visits a city and regains lost memories of the time he spent there many years before with a friend and his wife. Insofar as the page layout, Johnson utilizes wide spacing between words for paragraphs or dashes. Marc Saporta also published a novel, "Composition No.1," (1963) translated from the French in the same format as this book, unbound pages meant to be read in any order. Saporta's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Three the Hard Way / Bright, Susie, editor ; Harrison W ; Boyd G ; Litzky T., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42927-44970
Scope and Contents Susie Bright in her introduction writes: "Get in, get out, don't linger. It sounds like a pornographic maxim, but it's actually Raymond Carver's axiom about how to craft the perfect short story. Erotic literature, in our lifetimes, has usually fit his bill. It's short, all right. Sexy stories have typically been told in punch lines, bawdy tales, quickies from a raconteur. I've seen erotic anthologies that proposed to tell a story in under a hundred words, then under fifty. Erotic storytellers have beaten the devil, then the censor, and finally the clock. There's an untold parable behind the quick and the hot. Sexual writing has suffered under a lot of shame, and that's made it difficult to thrive. In a great deal of America's publishing history, you had to be a beatnik or a pornographer to get your hands on any form of erotica, whether crude or existential. A couple decades ago, when commercial literary publishers began to produce erotic volumes of their own, they did so with two...
Dates: 2004