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Sound poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1304 Collections and/or Records:

Henri Chopin: Avant-garde pioneer of sound poetry [Obituary] / Acquaviva, Frederic; Sackner RK; Sackner MA; Conz F., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47601-68610
Scope and Contents Henri Chopin Avant-garde pioneer of sound poetry Frédéric Acquaviva Tuesday February 5, 2008 The Guardian: "Towards the end of the second world war, Henri Chopin, who has died aged 85, escaped from a forced labour camp in Olomouc, in what is now the Czech Republic, after it had been bombed. He then spent time with the advancing Red Army, until, recaptured by the Germans, he and inmates of concentration and extermination camps were sent west on a Nazi "death march." Thousands died on those journeys and it was then that he listened to the voices of his fellow marchers, sounds which would infuse his work for the rest of his life. In the 1950s Henri created sound poetry, capturing breaths and cries made by his voice and body. He was, said his friend William Burroughs, an "inner space explorer", but the Frenchman remained a solitary figure, outside any artistic grouping, almost the only exponent of his art, and almost certainly the only poet to record sounds and movements by swallowing...
Dates: 2008

Henri Chopin dans l'Essex [Deluxe Edition] / Chopin, Henri ; Hausmann R ; DeVree P ; Beguier S ; Bertini G ; Neuhuys P ; Arnaud N ; Janco M ; Martel A ; Pelieu C ; Massin., 1972

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Identifier: CC-19282-19665
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Printed on Barcham Green paper. The silkscreened cake-board silkscreen has a title, "The Paddocks." Chopin has inscribed on the verso that two of the images in the print were done by Biguier and Bertini. The cardboard print is stored in a Chopin storage box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Hot Taters and Razzmatazz / Radin, Betty., 1997

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Identifier: CC-45274-47459
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This edition of the book is identical in content to the edition published solely by Runaway Spoon Press. It differs in the cover image and has smaller dimensions than the latter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Housepress Openpalm: the comforting sound of crickets. No.11 / Joel Bettridge., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36503-38302
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The words of this poem mimic the sound of crickets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Hydra x 1500 (2) / Claire, Paula., 1974

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Identifier: CC-58926-10002122
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Published in Codesigns, Writers Forum, 1976. First performance National Party Centre 15 Oct 1974. Hydra is a minute freshwater coelenterate with a stalklike tubular body and a ring of tentacles around the mouth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Hydra x 1500 / Claire, Paula., 1974

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Identifier: CC-18643-19015
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Published in Codesigns, Writers Forum, 1976. Hydra is a minute freshwater coelenterate with a stalklike tubular body and a ring of tentacles around the mouth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Hydrax x 1500 / Claire, Paula., 1974

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Identifier: CC-18642-19014
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Published in Codesigns, Writers Forum, 1976. First performance at National Poetry Center, October 15, 1974. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

I Only Work Here / Robson, Ernest M. ; Robson, Marion ; Kern B., 1975

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Identifier: CC-39243-41189
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Bliem Kern writes in his introduction that Robson's poetry is "his own invention and discovery, the prosodynic print is an incredible advance in the information of language. like a delicate line drawing with variety in texture and line value, affecting the tone, rhythm, imagery, and the pitch of the sound." the book is subtitled "Five Decades of Poetry in Four Styles." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975