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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 900 Collections and/or Records:

The Exorcism of Page Thirteen / Burtner, Caryl., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-24224-24676
Scope and Contents

Burtner cut the page number and part of the text from page 13 of every book in her library and placed the small squares into randomly selected groupings, 48 to a page to form fortuitous poems and coincidences of meaning. The Sackner Archive also holds an original page from this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The First Ache / Dettmer, Brian; Schierlitz, Tom., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-47606-68618
Scope and Contents

Dettmer made the artist book, Schierlitz was the photographer and the author of this article about the beginning of pain is Annie Murphy Paul. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

The Flies. The Game Is Up. / Young, Karl., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-00146-151
Scope and Contents

With the exception of the choruses, the vocabulary for this poem is based upon the English equivalents of words and phrases in Jean-Paul Satre, " Les Mouches and Les jeux sont faits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

the imated classic (27 FEB 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56873-10000238
Scope and Contents

The work is inscribed "for hop w/luv." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

the imated classic (27 FEB 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56873-10000238
Scope and Contents

The work is inscribed "for hop w/luv." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Importance of Swimming / Freifeld, Larry., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-11743-11961
Scope and Contents

At the time of publication, the author was Vice-President and General Manager of Something Else Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Kitten's Ride / curry, jw., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-19790-20177
Scope and Contents

curry's book published by Utopic Furnace Press was appropriated from a chapter in a children's book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Locative and Vocative Case / Furnival, John., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-13185-13486
Scope and Contents

The box was made from wooden fragments of commercial shipping crates that were printed or stenciled with the names of commercial products. A large surface of one lid is the actual tympan from the letterpress at Bath College with residuals of colored inks from student mistakes; the title is stenciled onto it. Inner surfaces of the box have been collaged with paper labels and stenciled with words, who? & where? in different languages. The box holds Furnival prints such as the Nailsworth series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Mackenzie Poems / Colombo, John Robert., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-18323-18695
Scope and Contents

Colombo has set the socio-political writings of William Lyon Mackenzie into verse form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Mutual Admiration Society presents HANS CLAVIN / Clavin, Hans., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-34083-35763
Scope and Contents

Each label depicts poorly imaged tools or brief texts made with rubberstamps. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

The New Yokoo Times: Photo-Collages 1960/2001 / Yokoo, Tadanori., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37985-39869
Scope and Contents

The exhibition consisted of 10 vintage photo-collages from the 1960's and 20 contemporary works. The newspaper reproduces these photo-collages based on images from Life magazine and texts from the New York Times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Nomads: Winter Souvenir / Nomads, The ; Arts A ; Hainke W ; Henricks N ; Monro N ; Olbrich JO ; Poier G ; Richard AM ; Schnyder A ; Stirnemann MV ; Tivy S., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-26894-27366
Scope and Contents

Volume 1 is made up of pages created by cutting up newspapers; Volume 2 consists mainly of photographic documentation of performance pieces during a tour. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Olsen Excerpts / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Tammes, Diane., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11261-11476
Scope and Contents

Listings on the pages are taken from the names, port registration letters, and code numbers of Olsen's Fisherman Nautical Almanack. The spelling of Olsen with an "e" rather than with an "o" as in the name of the American poet is deliberate. Olson drew much of his poetic material from Boston fisheries. Images in this book on pages facing the listings are photographs of fishing boats. According to Finlay (flyer), this juxtaposition is a "found collage" in the style of Schwitters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971