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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4850 Collections and/or Records:

The Parchment Is Burning , 1985

 Item — Folder 68: [Barcode: 31858072538022]
Identifier: CC-25655-26113
Scope and Contents

The full title of this print, a quote from Rabbi Hanina Ben Tradyon, is "The Parchment is Burning but the Letters are Flying Free." It depicts Hebrew letters arranged randomly above a collaged, burnt surface of paper at the bottom of the print. Tradyon was an ancient Talmudic scholar who was executed for his beliefs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

the peerless Mantra / Petasz, Pawel., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-39975-41942
Scope and Contents

Petasz's visual works generally feature a single letter; in this piece, it is an "I." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Philadelphia Love / Indiana, Robert., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-08365-8531
Scope and Contents

Folio contains offset lithographic version of Indiana's "Love" poem and "Wherefore the Punctuation of the Heart." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Pillow Book; ...Pillow Book: A Record of How the Text Developed through Exchange / Cole, David ; Shonagon, Sei ; Stetser, Carol., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-59853-10002906
Scope and Contents

Sei Shonagon was a lady-in-waiting at the court of the Japanese Empress in 990 A.D. who kept a note book on the people, places and things she encountered in her daily life. Cole and Stetser used these notes as the basis for their collaboration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Pillow Book; ...Pillow Book: A Record of How the Text Developed through Exchange (Collector's Edition) / Cole, David ; Shonagon, Sei ; Stetser, Carol., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-18332-18704
Scope and Contents

Sei Shonagon was a lady-in-waiting at the court of the Japanese Empress in 990 A.D. who kept a note book on the people, places and things she encountered in her daily life. Cole and Stetser used these notes as the basis for their collaboration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Poet Considers His Resources, 1979

 Item — Folder 63: [Barcode: 31858072537974]
Identifier: CC-22278-22700
Scope and Contents

Poem by R. Bradbury. Designed and printed by R. Bigus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Portal - for Marvin & Ruth Sackner / Topel, Andrew., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-53352-100051
Scope and Contents

A smaller version with a colored figure is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

the portal / Topel, Andrew., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-52924-74064
Scope and Contents

The image was generated with a computer and then printed from a computer file by an internet service. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

The Reduced Einstein Equations / Ruthven, Robert., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-31020-32481
Scope and Contents

The papers used are a page of Einstein equations partially covered with a page of the poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" by William Wordsworth. The selected text is outlined in a manner reminiscent of the style used by Tom Phillips in his "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Revolutionary and other poems / Morris, Stephen., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-38235-40131
Scope and Contents

This book was first published in 1972, revised in 1975 and reprinted in 1976 and 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

The Riddle of the Sands , 1990

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-54459-123465
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, "The cliche kiss, engraved upon the air - a rain of rice when wrong boys finger the yellow sand; - Two that look then burst the loaded bus" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Risk / Ruch, Gunther, editor ; Baroni, Vittore, editor ; Bleus G ; Conception M ; Bloch M ; Deisler G ; Jupitter-Larsen G ; Leigh M ; Perneczky G ; Moore B ; Olbrich JO ; Maggi R ; Daligand D ; Pawson M ; Kaufmann P ; Rutkovsky P ; Jesch B ; Wolf-Rehfeldt R ; Ruch G., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-37589-39446
Scope and Contents

This work consists of two books in a paper bag. The Risk is edited by Gunther Ruch and Arte Postale No.62 1990 by Vittore Baroni. The description of Arte Postale can be found in the database under other copies of the periodical. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt's contribution reads "My Last Mail Art Action from the GDR" (owing to Glasnost). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990