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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

Schrift nach Europa / Kutter, Marcus ; Gerstner K., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-37408-39261
Scope and Contents

This novel was written from 1954 - 1956 by Kutter. The book design and illustrations were done by Karl Gerstner. The frontpiece of the book depicts its title as fragmented text with a concrete poetic appearance like Mon's concrete poems in the sixties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

Score: Erotilogic: TWA Digs Under Paris. No.2 / Miekal And ; Elizabeth Was., 1984

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Identifier: CC-31997-33526
Scope and Contents

This issue was edited by Crag Hll and Bill DiMichele. And & Was provide a story that consists of a commentary on sexual relations which is accompanied by photocopied photographs and calligraphic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Seasons: a Homer-erotic Thriller, 2001

 Item — Box 277: [Barcode: 31858072460615]
Identifier: CC-35524-37264
Scope and Contents

This is the prototype novel of psychosexual intrigue and sexual abuse. The letter from Jan McLaughlin to the Sackners thanks them for hiring and firing her from work as assistant to the curator of the Archive so that she could produce something of substance in her life as writer, poet and performer in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

See the Old Lady Decently, 1975

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Identifier: CC-32669-34255
Scope and Contents

This is semi-biographical novel of Johnson's mother. It was last novel written by Johnson who committed suicide shortly after its release. Michael Bakewell wrote an introductory essay that provides an explanation of the story. The shaped, concrete poems portray a breast as a metaphor for the cause of Johnson's mother's death from breast cancer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Serious Dissertations on Something or Other / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

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Identifier: CC-17572-17938
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of the book first published earlier in the year. It consists of interviews devised with the cut-up technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Sleepers Awake, 1946

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Identifier: CC-04554-4641
Scope and Contents

This is the first trade edition in a gray cloth cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1946

Smiles on Washington Square, 1985

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Identifier: CC-11497-11713
Scope and Contents

Includes a clipping of a review that appeared in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Some of It / Mairowitz, David, editor ; Lebel JJ ; Mitchell A ; Burroughs WS ; Miles ; Weissner C ; Gysin B ; Ginsberg A ; Nuttall J ; McClure M ; Kupferberg T., 1969

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Identifier: CC-05764-5872
Scope and Contents

Silver mylar foil dust jacket. Themes deal with revolution, homosexuality, and underground press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Space Stations / The Funeral Journal / Friedman, Ed., 2001

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Identifier: CC-46967-49705
Scope and Contents

This is the author's reminiscence of his father's life and funeral interspaced with actual conversations of an astronaut with a ground station controller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Species of Abandoned Light / Berry, Jake ; Foley J., 1995

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Identifier: CC-24230-24682
Scope and Contents

Foley contributes an Afterword in which he points out that Berry phrases juxtaposed to other phrases may have nothing to do with each other. Foley indicates that readers identify the value of a text with its unity but Berry's text is deliberately & fundamentally incoherent - though it is not insane. Berry is not under the delusion that his text makes sense whereas in fact it does not. It is a glimpse of chaos that allows us to hold our minds, without danger, in constant perception of a powerful force, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, 1999

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Identifier: CC-43946-46057
Scope and Contents This book is edited with an introduction and translated by John Sturrock. The initial story is about "domestic and urban space and how, these days, we are made to occupy it. This is pure topography: plain to the point of obviousness at times, yet forever veering off into jolly idiosyncrasies of the kind that make Perec so entertainig to read." For example in "Species of Spaces," Perec describes the page, the bed, the bedroom, the apartment, the apartment buildlng, the street, the neighborhood, the town, the countryside, Europe, the world and space.Alessandro M Angelini (New York, NY) - Reviewing this book for Amazon.com writes "As the author of the world's longest palindrome and other literary feats, Perec's phenomenal linguistic skills and imagination remain incomparable. His works, however, on not merely experiments within the constraints of language; I am not as impressed with his ability to write a 300-page novel without a single letter "e" as much as his endearing sense of...
Dates: 1999

SprawlCode: descriptions / Burnett, Christopher., 2006

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Identifier: CC-49379-70424
Scope and Contents

Burnett defines spawl as messy land-use that defies clear order and ready -made labels that generally consists of five components: housing subdivisions, shopping centers, office parks, civic institutions, and roadways. The author indicates that he intends to create sprawl in a text stream and acknowleges the books of Ed Ruscha, Raymond Roussell, Guy Debord, Asger Jorn, Jeff Wall, On Kawara, and Cyril Mcfadden. The pages have been printed with a software program that allows assigning a value of a gray scale to each letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006