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Sound poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1304 Collections and/or Records:

Wholly Communion / Whitehead, Peter ; Ginsberg A ; Ferlinghetti L ; Corso G ; Fainlight H ; Mitchell A ; Horovitz M ; Jandl E ; Trocchi A ; Logue C ; Voznesensky A ; Brown P ; Hollo A ; MacBeth G ; Hawkins S., 1965

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Identifier: CC-32844-34457
Scope and Contents

This book documented a film by Peter Whitehead shot at a poetry reading at the Royal Albert Hall, London, June 11, 1965. It consisted of poems as well as stills from the film. The concrete and sound poems were contributed by Ernst Jandl. The book was also published by Grove Press in the United States. The signature and inscription relate to the previous owner of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Why Shiva Has Ten Arms / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

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Identifier: CC-17493-17859
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Why Shiva Has Ten Arms / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

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Identifier: CC-17448-17813
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." Colophon states "Why Shiva has ten arms / for he represents the dance of life / the omnipotence of being able to do innumerably / many things at once / .the joyous cosmology -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Why Shiva Has Ten Arms (Number One) / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

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Identifier: CC-17453-17818
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." Cobbing writes on the envelope that this copy number one was finished at 3AM on August 14, 1969. Colophon states "Why Shiva has ten arms / for he represents the dance of life / the omnipotence of being able to do innumerably / many things at once / .the joyous cosmology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Winter Poem No.2 , 1975

 Item — Folder 64: [Barcode: 31858072537982]
Identifier: CC-19992-20380
Scope and Contents

Performed for the first time at 8th international sound-poetry festival in London, May 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Winter Poem No.3 / Cobbing, Bob., 1980

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Identifier: CC-17522-17888
Scope and Contents

One of the copies has a printed "Christmas Greetings" inside the back cover. Their cover image is identical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980