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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4858 Collections and/or Records:

Solocoptro (after decampos) / Torres, Edwin., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53727-642805
Scope and Contents This print was commissioned by the Telephone Journal for the exhibition at The EFA Foundation "Telefone Sem Fio: Word-Things of Augusto de Campos Revisited" from November 4 - December 17, 2011. [The Sackner Archive lent an original manuscript and limited edition works to this exhibition]. From the catalogue, the following citation was printed. "This piece is an homage to the mantras I read within de Campos's aesthetics"”where words transmute into each other as they roll over their own repetition"”creating breath within breath, an echo of language as it shape shifts past surface-meaning into base-origin, the primal sound underneath. I also wanted to walk in the minimalism of his graphic sensibility while inserting a charge of my own. His piece "CODIGO" spoke to me in its graphic vertigo. I read "GOD" in the letterforms, a circular oneness, a vortex that traps while liberating, perhaps my own illusions revealed. I went off on that tangent, designing the G-O-D letter forms into a...
Dates: 2011

Soramame-bon / 1001 nights / Hasekura, Takako ; Glass JJr., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39234-41180
Scope and Contents

The letter to Marvin Sackner states that Jesse Glass will be presenting a performance piece by Hasekura at the Ohio State University avant garde poetry conference. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Sorry This Thingie Is Late / Tennille, Alarie; Friedman, Lainie; Walberg, Karl., 1995

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Identifier: CC-01652-1687
Scope and Contents

Sam and Carole Karsch sent Marvin Sackner this "Concrete Poetry Birthday Card." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Sortie de Quarantaine / Blaine, Julien., 1995

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Identifier: CC-28475-29748
Scope and Contents

This booklet lists the exhibition, poetic and performance activities of Blaine from January 1995- September 1995. One copy has handwritten notes by Blaine on both covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Spaghetti Decorated Ltd, 1974

 Item — Folder 32: [Barcode: 31858072459914]
Identifier: CC-19782-20169
Scope and Contents

The central image is a newspaper photograph of the Russian Communist leader, Brezhnev. The typings simulate the shape of hanging spaghetti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Spare Parts / Ford, Charles Henri., 1966

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Identifier: CC-13017-13309
Scope and Contents

The loose sheet indicates that this is an editorial copy sent for book review. The title of the book is printed on the dust jacket and is not in the other copy held by the Sackner Archive. The imagery between the two dust jackets differs greatly. The images on most of the pages are composed with different typefaces and sizes clipped from magazine and newspaper articles. On some of the pages, found visual images are integrated into the poems. Finally some pages have solely Pop Art images. "Spare Parts" was an advanced poetic book for its time. Papachrysantou was the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966