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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy, 1986

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Identifier: CC-31638-33140
Scope and Contents

This is a later printing of the book sometime after 1986. The first edition which is identical in layout and also held by the Sackner Archive, was published in only 126 copies. The layout of the text has unusual spacing and a variety of fonts. In one chapter, the spaced words take on a concrete poetic appearance and in another, the spaced letters almost appear like a letter picture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy, 1971

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Identifier: CC-31706-33216
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition of the book limited to 100 copies for sale and 26 for distribution by the author. The layout of the text has unusual spacing and a variety of fonts. In one chapter, the spaced words take on a concrete poetic appearance and in another, the spaced letters almost appear like a letter picture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

House of Leaves 2nd Printing / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2000

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Identifier: CC-40347-42318
Scope and Contents The number of copies in this signed, second printing of the book is not stated. The copyright page differs from the first edition, that is also held by the Sackner Archive, in colored annotations and its text. A label on the dust jacket states "Signed by the author." he following reviews of the book appeared on the Amazon.com WEB site.Amazon.com. Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example,...
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

House of Leaves / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34618-36319
Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing of the British edition of the book that was only printed in soft cover format. Its cover is completely different from the American edition. It was signed in blue ink by Danielewski at a reading on 9/26/06 he gave for the launch of "Only Revolutions" held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. He further embellished his signature with a fownward arrow in green ink. The Sackners were present at this reading. The following reviews of the book appeared on the Amazon.com WEB site:Amazon.com. Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named...
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Housepress Openpalm: Willed THinks. No.5 / ross priddle ; Nichol bp., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36505-38304
Scope and Contents

Priddle's calligraphically reproduced essay deals with bp Nichol's infatuation with the letter "H" as well as environmental issues in a dada-like presentation. Priddle also mentions progressive scleroderma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

How It Is: With Beckett's Fiction / Federman, Raymond; Beckett S., 1965

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Identifier: CC-11495-11711
Dates: 1965
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

Hunger's Bride: A Novel of the Baroque / Anderson, Paul., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44273-46403
Scope and Contents This is the first American edition that followed the first Canadian edition first published in 2004. The Sackner Archive holds both first editions. From Publishers Weekly: "A nearly 1,500-page novel that was 12 years in the making deserves consideration, even though in this instance, its complex central story could have been told in 500 pages. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz died of the plague in Mexico in 1695, and for the next two centuries her work was rarely referenced or read. Her poems, confessions and life story were rediscovered in the 20th century, most notably by Mexican poet Octavio Paz. In Anderson's elephantine debut novel, Sor Juana's story is told through the testimony of her "secretary," Antonia Mora (her intellectual equal), Carlos Siguenza y Gongora (a rival and a suitor), her confessor, Father Nunez (an enemy), and Sor Juana herself. We follow her fortunes from her illegitimate birth, through her inability to find success as a poet and scholar (due both to her gender...
Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Hunger's Bride: A Novel of the Baroque / Anderson, Paul., 2004

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Identifier: CC-44274-46404
Scope and Contents This is the first Canadian edition that preceded the first American edition published in 2005. The Sackner Archive holds both first editions. From Publishers Weekly: "A nearly 1,500-page novel that was 12 years in the making deserves consideration, even though in this instance, its complex central story could have been told in 500 pages. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz died of the plague in Mexico in 1695, and for the next two centuries her work was rarely referenced or read. Her poems, confessions and life story were rediscovered in the 20th century, most notably by Mexican poet Octavio Paz. In Anderson's elephantine debut novel, Sor Juana's story is told through the testimony of her "secretary," Antonia Mora (her intellectual equal), Carlos Siguenza y Gongora (a rival and a suitor), her confessor, Father Nunez (an enemy), and Sor Juana herself. We follow her fortunes from her illegitimate birth, through her inability to find success as a poet and scholar (due both to her gender and the...
Dates: 2004
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Hyperfiction: Novels for the Computer / Coover, Robert., 1993

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Identifier: CC-20424-20821
Dates: 1993
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

[I promise] / Weiner, Hannah ; MacLow J ; Giorno J., 1975

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Identifier: CC-00682-698
Scope and Contents

The card is addressed to Bernadette Walsh aka Bernadette Mayer who heads The Poetry Project in NYC. Weiner has written on each ruled page of this student style notebook a series of promises some of which can be read in a straight foward fashion, others omitting articles, verbs and nouns, and still others an incorrect tense to the verbs. These errors increase progressively over the course of this book which begins, "I promise to write readible and coherent letters. I promise to write a filthy book." Further, the sizes of the writing are also instructions for printed layout. Finally, scatteed throughout the book is the phrase Big Word, another instruction. During the period of writing this book (one of several hundred in this style), Weiner became a pyschotic recluse living in Manhattan. She emerged from this state about 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Ian Breakwell's Diary 1964-1985 , 1986

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Identifier: CC-21161-21570
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Ich in Einem Stuck / Riha, Karl ; Jaschke G., 1991

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Identifier: CC-03711-3782
Scope and Contents

The 13 pages of text consist of a single sentence with the word "ich" printed in bold type. Includes a line drawing by Gerhard Jaschke. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

If You Sleep on Your Other Side It Will Go Away / Hastings, Pattie Belle., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09596-9787
Scope and Contents

Theme of this book is dreaming. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

I'll raise you a Halftone / spence, pete., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35319-37053
Scope and Contents

This short story is written without periods and with every pronoun capitalized. It was first written in 1983 and published in Fling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Illusions / de Wit, Johan., 1989

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Identifier: CC-14427-14736
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Images are Dangerous / Brezsny, Rob., 1983 - 1984

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Identifier: CC-21286-21696
Dates: 1983 - 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

Imaginary Missing Paper / Davenport, Philip ; Parkinson, Gary., 1999

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Identifier: CC-45093-47270
Scope and Contents

The book consists of altered photographs of family and friends of Parkinson and poems from description of missing persons. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

It's All There in the Beginning / Federman, Raymond., 1980

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Identifier: CC-11506-11722
Dates: 1980
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

Itself / Godard, Keith., 1970

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Identifier: CC-29915-31304
Scope and Contents

The story deals with a shape denoted by dye-cut perforations on each page that varies in form and size, e.g., circle, lozange, rectangle, etc. The minimal text describes the changes in shape, number, and size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

J: An Apparition of the Late J. Suppl.1 / Jack Spicer., 1960

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Identifier: CC-32111-33649
Scope and Contents

The cover design is a made-up map. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

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