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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 900 Collections and/or Records:

The Poems of Emily Dickinson / Holmes, Janet., 2009

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Identifier: CC-55914-9999380
Scope and Contents The author writes in her introductory notes, "These poems are erased from Emily Dickinson's poems of 1861 an 1862, the first years of the United States Civil War." The back cover contains the following quote by Tom Raworth: "In the tradition of Tom Phillips' " A Humument" and Ronald Johnson's "Radios", Janet Holmes mines or excises Emily Dickinson's Civil War period poems to engender a vision of the current wars in the Middle East."Amazon.com: "If you write out 'The Poems of Emily Dickinson' and erase some of the letters very neatly and precisely, you can get to THE MS OF M Y KIN--the manuscript of my kin, as it were; the manuscript of my family. It might also be said to be the manuscript of my kind." "If Ronald Johnson had an epic (Paradise Lost) to erase in creating his masterwork, RADI OS, then Janet Holmes has chosen a more difficult task, namely that of erasing from the most compressed poetry there is. Emily Dickinson's poems come to us so nearly pre-erased that their further...
Dates: 2009

The Reduced Einstein Equations / Ruthven, Robert., 1994

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Identifier: CC-31020-32481
Scope and Contents

The papers used are a page of Einstein equations partially covered with a page of the poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" by William Wordsworth. The selected text is outlined in a manner reminiscent of the style used by Tom Phillips in his "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance / Johnson, Brownie, editor., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28012-29165
Scope and Contents

Nathaniel Hawthorne's text forms the basis for this book which is printed on scarlet stock paper. Selections of words or phrases from the original text were selected by Johnson to create a new minimalist poem on each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Story of Armin Experiencing the Great American West / Muhsam, Armin., 1995

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Identifier: CC-41189-43172
Scope and Contents

Muhsam painted and wrote a diary text over a found teacher's guide. He writes of his emigrant experience in the American West. He paints the pages white and leaves illustrations unpainted on the page forming a new viusal context. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Story of "O", 1985

 Item — Box 192: [Barcode: 31858072459625]
Identifier: CC-12690-12933
Scope and Contents

Each "page" of this book is a round rubber gasket upon which the artist has printed statements beginning with O, e.g. O MY, OOO LA LA, OH WELL. The book is "bound" with a macrame strip. The title also refers to the well-known, erotic French novel with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

the subject another standpoint (140567) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56864-10000229
Scope and Contents

The paper reinforcements are mainly bunched in the page center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

the uneasy birth (140567) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56807-10000176
Scope and Contents

The full title of the recto side reads 'the uneasy birth of a moral consciousness' and on the verso side, 'archeological and literary material.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

the uneasy birth (140567) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56807-10000176
Scope and Contents

The full title of the recto side reads 'the uneasy birth of a moral consciousness' and on the verso side, 'archeological and literary material.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Theories of Reality / Ruthven, Robert., 2000

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Identifier: CC-42792-44832
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds two works depicted in this catalogue: Exact Solutions and The Reduced Einstein Equations and Daffodils. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

This is Visual Poetry. No.17/Apr / Derek Beaulieu., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51900-73001
Scope and Contents

On the back cover, it is stated that Beaulieu is the suthor of four books of poetry (most recently the visual poem suite chains) and two volumes of conceptual fiction (most recently the short story collection How to Write), derek beaulieu's work is consistently praised as some of the most radical and challenging contemporary Canadian writing. Toro magazine recently wrote "using techniques drawn from graphic design, fine art and experimental writing, [beaulieu] vigorously tests the restrictions, conventions, and denotations of the letters of the alphabet." beaulieu lives in Calgary where he teaches high school Journalism and English." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010