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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 900 Collections and/or Records:

one cent: Two Poems. No.179/Nov-Dec / LeRoy Gorman., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-05025-5124
Scope and Contents

The two concrete poems are based on headlines from two Ontario newspapers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[Only In America] / Library of Art, The., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-06934-7057
Scope and Contents

The Library of Art is AKA Peter Craigie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Openings Press Card Series: News. No.15 / Phil Hemmings., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-38137-40031
Scope and Contents

This card depicts a photograph of a chimney with a wind vane in which the directional letters line up to spell "N E W S." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Operation Manual, 1991

 Item — Box 283: [Barcode: 31858073143418]
Identifier: CC-02339-2379
Scope and Contents

This assemblage is a quasi-book object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina (140567) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56832-10000200
Scope and Contents

The white paste is streaked with red abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina (140567) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56832-10000200
Scope and Contents

The white paste is streaked with red abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Over Easy / Sackner, Sara., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-59860-10002915
Scope and Contents

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Ow's Waif and other poems, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-38180-40075
Scope and Contents

The poems were composed from found texts that were altered by McCaffery as a result of chance operations. The colored concrete poems on several pages scattered throughout the book that employ large and varied typefaces were designed by Robert MacDonald. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Pafko at the Wall / DeLillo, Don., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-14725-15038
Scope and Contents

Text is presented in the shape of a baseball. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Pages, 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-10652-10861
Scope and Contents

Gibbs took pages from other books in several languages and bound them in part or as a whole into this book. The pages are numbered sequentially and are unrelated by theme. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Pagine / Miccini, Eugenio ; Cage J ; Duchamp M ; Pignotti L ; Kolar J., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-36358-38149
Scope and Contents

This book was published in an edition of 20 copies with almost identical content. The differences relate to minor use of newspaper clippings and offset photographs from periodicals in the collage material. Further, since the collage material was glued onto the pages, an imprecise process, all of the books are slightly different. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Paginette / Miccini, Eugenio ; Ginsberg A ; Duchamp M ; Cage J., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-36349-38139
Scope and Contents

This book was published in an edition of 15 copies with almost identical content. The differences relate to minor use of newspaper clippings and offset photographs from periodicals in the collage material. Further, since the collage material was glued onto the pages, an imprecise process, all of the books are slightly different. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Paideuma #0X3 / Delgado, Fernando Garcia., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-38537-40445
Scope and Contents

The collage was made from a page of a German text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

[Paper Strips], 1987

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21834-22245
Scope and Contents

Poem object consists of bag with cut-up paper text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Paper Trail: Just Cut and Run / Dettmer, Brian., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-47751-68770
Scope and Contents

This illustration for the spring issue of Style Magazine, is a cut version of the T - the first letter in The New York Times. Dettmer has cut into and carved out from a book of maps of the United States. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

[Paradise] / Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29370-30735
Scope and Contents

One of Postcard-Correction series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997