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Typewriter poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1812 Collections and/or Records:

The Sackner Lecture / Kaplan, Mitchell., 2014

 Item
Identifier: CC-59762-10002819
Scope and Contents

Mitchell Kaplan typed this for the Sackners on one of his many typewriters at Books & Books when Marvin Sackner delivered his talk "Six from the Sixties" at ateh Exile Books pop-upbook exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

the shorter oxford english dictionary / Houedard, Dom sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-56007-59727
Scope and Contents

The letters of this piece depict the page headers of the dictionary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Stork / Smith, William Jay., 1954

 Item
Identifier: CC-42603-44619
Scope and Contents

This poem pamphlet announces the birth of Gregory Jay Smith, son of William Jay Smith and his first wife, Barbara Howes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

The Story So Far / Cinicolo 3, Donato., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-19639-20025
Scope and Contents

This artist book, consisting of typewriter poetry and art as well as short stories consiats of a large number of concrete poetic styles. Cinicolo's typing is so proficient that the text appears to be offset printed from a small size type face but was actually typed using an Olympia microface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

the total ir relevance (050668) / C (250369) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968 - 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-56300-58994
Scope and Contents

Houedard plays on the similar pronunciation of particular French and English words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968 - 1978

[The Tower][CR][The Tower] / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57218-10000547
Scope and Contents

The poem is in the shape of a tower with the base containing the following: "being an illlumination in graphic poems of some of the basic wordy structures of civilisation" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Typewriter Revolution & Other Poems / Enright, D.J.., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-13747-14051
Scope and Contents

Contains a single reproduction of a poem using a typewriter with its content about the typewriter in poetry; the remainder of the book consists of printed conventional poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Vowel Sonnet Kineticised as a Plain Course of Bob Doubles (210964) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-08622-8794
Scope and Contents

With this piece and its instruction based upon varied colored light displays and sounds, Houedard provides instructions for a digital poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

The World: I Saw Eternity the Other Night / Ward, John Powell., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-57965-10001223
Scope and Contents

The fisrst stanza of the original poem by Henry Vaughn reads: I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain; Near him, his lute, his fancy, and his flights, Wit's sour delights, With gloves, and knots, the silly snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flow'r. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

The world's a trough and everyman a pig / Sharkey, John J.., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56708-10000094
Scope and Contents

This is a poem in the shape of a pig typed with capital letters and each body part is the typed name of that part. The complete quote at the botton of the page "The world's a trough and everyman a pig " is attributed to Swillshere. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Theravada: sun / moon / Burgess, Molly., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-57188-10000514
Scope and Contents

Mahayana typewritings are stored in a custom wooden box made by Molly Burgess whereas Theravada typewritings are stored between two plexiglas book covers. The limited edition book, 'Still,' of 25 copies depcits excellent reproductions of the originals to the extent that it is difficult to distinguish the original from the letterpress reproductions. However, the originals are typed on a single page whereas the reproductions in the book are printed on sleeve pages. A comparison between the blackness of the lettering generally showed more blackness with the originals than the reproductions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

They Say People Can't Dream in a Digital Word, 2013

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-58037-10001288