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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 900 Collections and/or Records:

Referendum / Backer, Heimrad., 1988

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Identifier: CC-21960-22372
Scope and Contents The book consists of photographs and poems dealing mostly with negative feelings related to the title. The five loose photographs in this limited edition of five copies (size of trade edition unspecified) also appear in the book.Goodreadss review: Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad Backer presents quotations from the Holocaust s planners, perpetrators, and victims. The book offers a startling collection of documents that confront us with details from the bureaucratic world of the Nazis and the intimate worlds they destroyed. Backer s sources range from victims letters and medical charts to train schedules and the telephone records of Auschwitz. His transcriptions and reworkings of these sources serve as a reminder that everything about the Shoah was spoken about in great detail, from the most banal to the most monstrous. transcript shows us that the Holocaust was not unspeakable, but was an eminently describable and described act spoken about by thousands...
Dates: 1988

Reveries of a Spinster / Kahn, Robin., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27955-29102
Scope and Contents

The content of the text is feminist in theme. It is illustrated with found images that are enhanced with handcoloring and rubberstamping in this limited edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Reworks 1968-1993 / Cross, Doris ; Phillips T ; Grumman B ; Berman W., 1993

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Identifier: CC-40319-42290
Scope and Contents

In an introductory essay, the exhibition curator Jim Edwards, compares Cross' dictionary work to Tom Phillips' "A Humument." He further indicates that the artist he most equates Doris Cross to is Wallace Berman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Riff-Raff / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12188-12412
Scope and Contents

The theme of this card is an attack on the authors of the book, "Follies, A National Trust Guide," that discredited Finlay's Temple Garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Rob the Plagiarist / Fitterman, Robert., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50070-71130
Scope and Contents

In his acknowledgement Fitterman writes, "This collection houses several of my texts that were written since 2000 and that have appeared in literary journals and chapbooks. Taken together, the sum of these pieces reflects my continued interest in a poetics of plagiarism.So, finally, this house may be your house.. Most of the writing here is part essay, part poetry, part libretto, part conceptual writing, and nearly all borrowed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Ruth and Marvin's Medicine Cabinet, 2006

 Item — Box 90: [Barcode: 31858072538162]
Identifier: CC-62390-47521
Scope and Contents

The artists are visual poets who gifted this work to the Sackner Archive after a visit to the collection. The cabinet is painted in primary colors and the hand printed texts are paint and ink. the six balls are printed with the names Duchamp, Ball, Marinetti, appolinaire (sic) Campos (sic) and Mallarme. The typed stories relate to Denise's youth and problems with asthma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

[Ruth the Acrobat], 2014

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Identifier: CC-60062-10003095
Scope and Contents

The covers have a New Reaslism style of expression. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Saciedade dos Poetas Vivos: Visual [Poetry]. / Urhacy Faustino, Leila Miccolis, editors ; Polkinhorn H ; Branco J ; DeSa A ; Menezes P ; Pontes H ; Mund Hjr ; Pereira O ; Nunes S ; Magela G ; Teles GM ; Galahade JJ ; Cardias J ; Bezerra M ; Sobral M., 1993

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Identifier: CC-29786-31164
Scope and Contents

This anthology presents examples of visual and concrete poems by Brazilians who for the most part have not been in the main stream of internationally recognized Brazilian poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Sackner Potatos / Susan Barron., 1993

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Identifier: CC-29885-31272
Scope and Contents

Susan Barron collected rocks from the Sackners' garden, painted them to resemble potatos, and placed them in a paper bag used for potatos. The collaged texts read, "This hardy variety of SPUDS is grown in Miami Beach, Florida, under the strict supervision of Reb Marvin's & Dr. Ruth's Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems exclusively! Processed & packaged in Brooklyn under the evil eye of the Rebbitzin of Dubious Repute {a.k.a. Suzette de la Crepe} in the Borough of Brooklyn - Park Slope Branch." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993