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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 909 Collections and/or Records:

Woman's World: a novel / Rawle, Graham., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-62537-47692
Scope and Contents This book is a work of fiction in which all the texts and illustrations are clipped from women's magazines from the 1960's. It resembles the cut-up stories made by William Burroughs except that the flow is deliberate rather than random. Graham Rawle describes the making of the book in an afterward. "I started writing this book in the usual way. When I had completed a rough draft, I then searched through hundreds of women's magazines, cutting out anything that seemed relevant to the scenes I'd written - sentences and phrases that, when joined together, could be rearranged to approximate what I wanted to say. These cuttings were then filed and from them I began to reassemble my story. Little by little, my original words were discarded and replaced by those I'd bound. Once the transition was complete, I could start pasting up the pages as artwork. The method was primitive: scissors and glue. Apart from a little tweaking here and there to enlarge very small type to a readable size,...
Dates: 2005

Words Cubed / Anonymous., 1994

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Identifier: CC-43223-45282
Scope and Contents

Each surface of every cube is printed with words in varied typefaces and fonts so that new prose/poetry can be created. The piece is described as "building blocks for composing clever prose." The two copies differ in that the same words are printed on different cubes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words Cubed / Anonymous., 1994

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Identifier: CC-43223-45282
Scope and Contents

Each surface of every cube is printed with words in varied typefaces and fonts so that new prose/poetry can be created. The piece is described as "building blocks for composing clever prose." The two copies differ in that the same words are printed on different cubes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words Cubed: Poetry for Your Table / Anonymous., 1994

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Identifier: CC-26739-27209
Scope and Contents

All surfaces of eight wooden cubes are printed in different typefaces with single words which can be turned to "create weird, unique, zany, brilliant expressions... The cubes are building blocks for composing clever prose." The typeface for each of the words is well thought out and could stand alone as minimalist poetry in several instances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words Cubed: Poetry for Your Table / Anonymous., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-26739-27209
Scope and Contents

All surfaces of eight wooden cubes are printed in different typefaces with single words which can be turned to "create weird, unique, zany, brilliant expressions... The cubes are building blocks for composing clever prose." The typeface for each of the words is well thought out and could stand alone as minimalist poetry in several instances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words off the Street / Figallo, Anthony., 1995

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Identifier: CC-31116-32582
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a fragment of a newspaper headline. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Wrist Watch Valentine's Greetings / Jan Baker., 2010

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Identifier: CC-50713-71788
Scope and Contents

This annual gift to the Sackner Archive is shaped like an actual wrist watch. The card reads," 2010 Take time 2 do what you want. Love, Jan Baker and Mark Kaplan." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Wrist Watch Valentine's Greetings / Jan Baker., 2010

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Identifier: CC-50713-71788
Scope and Contents

This annual gift to the Sackner Archive is shaped like an actual wrist watch. The card reads," 2010 Take time 2 do what you want. Love, Jan Baker and Mark Kaplan." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Writing / Reese, Marshall ; Ligorano N., 1980

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Identifier: CC-39296-41243
Scope and Contents

One section of this book depicts fragmented textural poems, the othe cut-ups after William Burroughs. The end papers consist of calligraphic markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Written on the Road / Stetser, Carol., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51376-72468
Scope and Contents

Eight of the prints are titled Road/Asemic and are numbered 1 to 8. The images are of black asphalt road repairs. The folder also contains three prints titled East/West that are numbered 1 to 3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Xerolage: Infrapics. No.35 / Irving Weiss., 2005

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Identifier: CC-48462-69490
Scope and Contents

Weiss writes that Infrapics "ultimately derive from the presentation of an image, icon, or text with identifying or explanatory words...going back to the emblem poem." Stored in Weiss box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005