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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 559 Collections and/or Records:

Travelling With Women / Polkinhorn, Harry., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-48913-69951
Scope and Contents

The edition consisted of 224 soft cover and 26 hard cover books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Two Novels: Andy / For Jesus Lunatick, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-31521-33014
Scope and Contents

The dust jacket is chipped and torn in several places. However the black cloth cover and the text and images are in fine condition. The prose and poems are printed in back to back reversed sections for each of the two novels. The novel "For Jesus Lunatick" is printed without punctuations in a highly experimental layout including several numbered blank pages. The latter are for numbered illustrations placed in the center section that the reader is requested to cut and paste to the respective page. "Andy "is punctuated and layed out experimentally with some pages concrete poetic in appearance. It, too, has several pages that are numbered and blank with exception of a single number placed at different locations to receive the illustrations from the cutttings in the center section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Two Novels: Andy / For Jesus Lunatick Second Edition / Nichol, bp., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-31563-33058
Scope and Contents

In contrast to the first edition in which the prose and poems were printed in back to back reversed sections for each of the two novels, the printing in this second edition is sequential. The illustrations are printed in their designated positions for "Andy" but the pages are left blank for the novel "For Jesus Lunatick. The book design is not nearly as successful as the first edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Typoo / Conrad, Earl., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-18489-18861
Scope and Contents

This novel is entirely composed of typewriter poetry/art and its hero is named, Typoo. Earl Conrad (b. 1912 - d. 1986); birth name Cohen, was born and educated in Auburn, New York. He penned at least twenty works of biography, history, and criticism, including books in collaboration. At least one that he 'ghost' wrote, was the biography of actor Errol Flynn, titled "My Wicked, Wicked Ways". Earl Conrad did a great deal of favorable writing about African-Americans in the U.S. even though he was white. A duplicate reading copy is held by the Sackner Archive but the dust jacket is frayed and stained. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Ultravioleta / Moriarty, Laura ; Halsey A., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-46970-49708
Scope and Contents

This book includes a visual poem by Alan Halsey that is also reproduced in part on the front cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

umb ili cal bar fing / Sloy ; Nic., 2010

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Identifier: CC-50782-71860
Scope and Contents

This first edition book was written between October 1989 and April 1990. The layout and design were by sloy (aka Sandra Loy) and the cover and drawings were by nic (aka Nicholas). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

[Untitled], 1977

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Identifier: CC-15060-15377
Scope and Contents

The author signed and dedicated the book in mirror writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Utopia: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. Have a Good Sleep! / Anonymous., 2004

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Identifier: CC-45994-48701
Scope and Contents

The book consists of a soporific text with the final page depicting swirls of words collaged onto a pillow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Utopia: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. Have a Good Sleep! / Anonymous., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-45994-48701
Scope and Contents

The book consists of a soporific text with the final page depicting swirls of words collaged onto a pillow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Vaast b1n n ephemerisi / Peters, Michael ; White, Derek., 2007

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Identifier: CC-51018-72097
Scope and Contents

The covers are by Derek White. Peters composed the text and made the 20 visual poetic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Variations Typographiques Sur deux poemes / Queneau, Raymond ; Fernand, Michel., 1964

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Identifier: CC-03717-3788
Scope and Contents

Typography by Jean Vodaine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Vas: An Opera in Flatland / Tomasula, Steve ; Farrell, Stephen., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-41498-43485
Scope and Contents

This innovative text and image book is based on "'Flatland" by Edwin Abbott. "Utilizing a wide and historical sweep of represenations of the body, from pedigree charts to genetic sequences, this hybrid imagetext novel recounts how differing ways of imagining the body generate differing stories of knowledge, power, history, gender, politics, art, and of course, the literature of who we are." Marjorie Perloff describes this extraordinary book as a "novel - or is it a film script? collage art work? philosopical meditation?...Tomasula's dissection of post-biological life is about the new interaction of bodies and DNA possibilities." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Vast / Huston, Doug., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-09827-10021
Scope and Contents

This is a western cowboy novel in which each sentence, 957 in all with footnotes for the sources, has been taken verbatim from other books. It forms the ultimate collaged or found text novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visible Language: Writing...In Stereo. No.1-2/Win-Spr / Rapph Sarkonak, Richard Hodgeson, editors., 1993

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Identifier: CC-00871-892
Scope and Contents

Theme deals with the interplay of the inclusion of multiple languages in poetry, fictional and non-fictional texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Voeux (facsimile), 1989

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Identifier: CC-31811-33329
Scope and Contents

This book was originally published in 1976 in an edition of 100 copies. Perec presented this book that consisted of word play writings to his friends as a New Year's gift. A facsimile signature and inscription is printed on back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Volvox, 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-48874-69911
Scope and Contents

The edition consisted of 26 hard cover copies and 175 soft bound copies. The text does not include any periods though other punctuation marks are present. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

W or the Memory of Childhood, 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-31305-32778
Scope and Contents

This novel contains two distinct alternating biographies: the first is an allegorical story of W, a bizarre, mythical island civilization, symbolizing the Holocaust. It is printed in italics. The second text is Perec's memories of his childhood in Paris. Perec writes in his introduction that the two stories "are in fact inextricably bound up with each other, as though neither could exist on its own, as though it was only their coming together, the distant light they cast on each other, that could make apparent what is never quite said in one,never quite said in the other, but said only in their fragile overlapping." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988