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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

No.111 2.7.93-10.20.96, 1997

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Identifier: CC-27596-28673
Scope and Contents This book is described by Charles Bernstein as"The Borscht belt meets concept art in this delirious digest of obsessive gaiety, this useless collection of perishable information, this wily catalog of everyday life, this alphabetic bestiary of the ribs, joints, sinews, and bones of language's alluring lore. {This] could be the longest, and maybe the last, list poem of the 20th century. On the way, Goldsmith has reinvented prosody - conting by 1's 2's 3's, and up - as he inventories the raring rush of rippling, or is it ripping?, words: inchoate yet coalescing, a fractal romp on just this side of virtual reality." All the phrases end in sounds end in the sound R and are organized alphabetically by syllable-count beginning with A, aar, air and ending with a "7,228 syllable tour de force of astonishing proportions. But in the spirit of George Perec...Goldsmith uses these rules to expose the reader/listener/viewer to the marvels and vagaries of language in the late twentieth century....
Dates: 1997

No.155: Literature / Asphodel Book Shop ; Kostelanetz R ; levy da ; Johnson R ; Sanders E ; Schmidt A., 1993

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Identifier: CC-26555-27024
Scope and Contents

Lowell mentions Larry Walrich's (the bookseller) death in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Non Hysteron Proteron / Fencott, P.C.., 1984

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Identifier: CC-11214-11429
Scope and Contents

This book is reproduced from Fencott's handwritten text that has several calligraphic styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Nose / de Charmoy, Cozette; Chopin H; Heidsieck B., 1982

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Identifier: CC-15054-15371
Scope and Contents

This is an unpublished surrealistic novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Nuclear Love / Wildman, Eugene., 1972

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Identifier: CC-29833-31214
Scope and Contents

One section designated a "Clump" by Wildman features concrete and visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Nuclear Love / Wildman, Eugene., 1972

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Identifier: CC-29834-31215
Scope and Contents

One section designated a "Clump" by Wildman features concrete and visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

O Mission Repo [Vol.1] / Macdonald, Travis., 2008

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Identifier: CC-50698-71772
Scope and Contents Amazon.com Poets & Writers Magazine: Poets have long known that there is as much power in words that are missing as in those that rest on the page. Anne Carson provided a brilliant example of this in If Not, Winter, her 2002 translation of the work of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. Of the nine books of lyric poetry that Sappho wrote on papyrus rolls only one poem has survived intact; the rest are fragments. To indicate where words are missing or, in some cases, are illegible, Carson included brackets, so that one of the fragments begins "]heart / ]absolutely / ]I can" while another is a single word trapped in, as John D'Agata put it in an essay in the Boston Review, "a blizzard of brackets." The haunting fragments bring to mind the best erasure poetry, in which the poet alters an existing text by striking or erasing words. Fact-Simile Editions, an independent press in [Santa Fe], recently published a unique example of this form of found poetry. While The 9/11 Commission Report...
Dates: 2008

Oab 1 / Zend, Robert., 1983

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Identifier: CC-29935-31326
Scope and Contents

In Volume 1, an inventive book of visual poetry, Zend has created an imaginary character, Oab who plays word games dealing with a multitude of topics with his own creation, Irdu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Oab 2, 1983

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Identifier: CC-29937-31328
Scope and Contents

In Volume 2 of this bookwork, Zend continues the history of his imaginary character, Oab who plays word games with his own creation, Irdu. The character Ardo, who is a mystic dealing with the fourth dimension, is introduced. Some of the mathematical content in the beginning of this volume is reminiscent of Abbott's "Flatland." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

od Joyce'a do liberatury (From Joyce to Liberature) / Bazarnik, Katarzyna, editor ; Joyce J ; Cage J ; Jarry A ; Johnson BS ; Danielewski M ; Butor M ; Mallarme S ; Federman R ; Bazarnik K ; Fajfer Z ; Drozdz S ; Derrida J ; Barthes R ; Beckett S ; Schmidt A ; Sterne L., 2002

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Identifier: CC-43127-45182
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of essays on Liberature and James Joyce's works held on Bloomsday in Krakow in 1999 and 2000. An English summary appears at the end of the book. The editor in her essay makes the point that all Joyce's books go round in circles beginning and ending with the same themes: family, death, resurrection or rebirth. The cover depicts a reproduction of Drozd's room installation of letters that was shown in the Beyond Geometry exhibition, LACMA and Miami Museum of Art 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Old Angel Midnight / Kerouac, Jack., 1985

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Identifier: CC-37076-38917
Scope and Contents

This is a pirated edition of the most experimental work produced by Kerouac. One part was initially pubished in Big Table No.1, 1959, the other in Evergreen Review Vol.7, No.33, 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Olive Dachsund: First: Nebulum is no more Alack. No.1/Sep / Glyn Pursglove, editor ; Ruhm G ; McNamara T ; LeSidaner JM ; Valoch J ; Novak L ; Hausmann R ; Denise L., 1966

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Identifier: CC-48309-69334
Scope and Contents

This is the successor to Nebulum No.1 which discontinued publication. Nebulum, Olive Dachsund, and Her(M)etic Press are stored in the same portfolio box and are filed under Olive Dachsund. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Only Connect, 1984

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Identifier: CC-18994-19373
Scope and Contents

The book is bound into a folder in four sections so that the pages may be turned in random order thereby constantly changing the story. This format is the same as the booklets with spiral spines on all borders published by Kickshaws. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Only Revolutions (Advance Reader's Edition) / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62647-48575
Scope and Contents Danielewski signed this book in green ink at a reading on 9/27/06 he gave for its launch held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. The Sackners were present at this reading. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises two monologues, one by Sam and one by Hailey, both "Allmighty sixteen and freeeeee," each narrating the same road trip, or set of neo-globo-revolutionary events"”or a revolution's end: "Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it." Figuring out what's happening is a big part of reading the book. The verse-riffs narrations, endlessly alliterative and punning (like Joyce)...
Dates: 2006

Only Revolutions / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2006

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Identifier: CC-60653-10003524
Scope and Contents The end papers, one in gold and the other in green, contain mutiple circles of lists of alphabetical words. Each circle varies in fonts and shape. The book cover is a richly colored photographic landscape of objects such as yellow roses, butterflies, insects, a white mouse, and plant material. The Sackners were present at the author's reading at Books & Books in Coral Gables , Florida on 9/27/06. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises two monologues, one by Sam and one by Hailey, both "Allmighty sixteen and freeeeee," each narrating the same road trip, or set of...
Dates: 2006

Only Revolutions / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62648-48576
Scope and Contents The end papers, one in gold and the other in green, contain mutiple circles of lists of alphabetical words. Each circle varies in fonts and shape. The book cover is a richly colored photographic landscape of objects such as yellow roses, butterflies, insects, a white mouse, and plant materials. Danielewski signed and inscribed this book in green ink in Sam's section and in orange ink in Hailey's section at a reading on 9/27/06 he gave for its launch held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. The Sackners were present at this reading. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises...
Dates: 2006