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Performance poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 886 Collections and/or Records:

Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word / Bernstein, Charles, editor ; Andrews B ; Drucker J ; McCaffery S ; Perloff M ; Silliman R ; Apollinaire G ; Marinetti FT ; Tzara T ; Morgenstern C ; Kamensky V ; Picabia F ; Hausmann R ; Lemaitre M ; Gomringer E ; MacLow J ; Hatherly A ; Howe S ; Rasula J ; O'Sullivan M ; Retallack J ; Nichol bp ; Carroll L ; Lewis WP ; Antin D ; Watten B ; Pound E ; Quartermain P., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-32053-33587
Scope and Contents

The editor states that the 17 essays in this book are concerned with poetry readings, the sound of poetry and the visual performance of poetry. They "offer original and wide-ranging elucidations of how twentieth-century poetry has been practiced as a performance art." Johanna Drucker contributed a chapter titled "Visual Performances of the Poetic Text" in which she describes and illustrates several poems of early 20th century visual poetry movements including an in depth analysis of "Poesie de mots inconnus" by Iliazd, a book that is held by the Sackner Archive. A listing of audio resources and a bibliography are included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Cobboozing Cobbing / Hanson, Sten., 1990

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Identifier: CC-09888-10084
Scope and Contents

A tribute to Bob Cobbing on his 70th birthday, Hansen states "thanks & gratitude for 23 years of friendship!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Codestones of Venice / Claire, Paula ; Bentivoglio M., 1978

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Identifier: CC-31440-32929
Scope and Contents

This book is a score for a performance piece given at Magazzini del Sale in conjunction with the exhibition, Materializzazione del Linguaggio, organized for the Venice Biennale by Mirella Bentivoglio. The work was based upon a treated text of John Ruskin's commentary, "The Stones of Venice" (1851-1953). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

collecion archivo conz / Zaj ; Paik NJ ; Conz F ; Figeredo R ; Hidalgo J ; Marchetti W ; Castillejo JL ; Ferrer E ; Navarro E ; Chopin H., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49620-70671
Scope and Contents

The Zaj group of artists consisted of Hidalgo, Marchetti, Castillejo, and Ferrer. This catalogue includes photographs of pianos modified by Zaj for Archivo Conz. Thirty-two large scale silkscreen prints on cloth published by Conz of Zaj images are depicted. The Sackner Archive holds several of the originals which are often postcard size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Collected Poems Volume Four: The Kollekted Kris Kringle / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

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Identifier: CC-17349-17713
Scope and Contents

This book includes poetry and performance notes which document several published works by Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Collected Poems Volume Seven: Vowels & Consequences / Cobbing, Bob ; Griffiths B., 1985

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Identifier: CC-17350-17714
Scope and Contents

Bill Griffiths' introductory essay explains how Cobbing has used the duplicator, ink, stencils and over-printing to create texts of shapes and textures. They "move away from word and letter as conventional symbols...into a new semantics of shape. The works in this book date from 1970 to 1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Collected Poems Volume Two: Wan A Do B Tree C / Cobbing, Bob., 1978

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Identifier: CC-28763-30070
Scope and Contents

This book incorporates all the material in the two publications, Sound Poems (An A B C in Sound), January 1995, and Kurrirrurriri, November 1967. It consists largely of sound poems though some are written in expressive visual format. The earliest poem in the book, 'Worm' was written in 1954 but did not achieve its final version until 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Collection OUt: Gong. No.0000 , 1974

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Identifier: CC-35921-37685
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a photograph of Davies with the grill hanging from his head by red string. The caption at the bottom of the print provides instructions for playing this found instrument that accompanies the image. The top of the print depicts drawings of the right and left ears that have a single perforation for supporting the grill with the string for framing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Continue... / Kopcke, Arthur., 1972

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Identifier: CC-07915-8069
Scope and Contents

The collages give directions for performance pieces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972