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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4861 Collections and/or Records:

Creativity / Grumman, Bob., 1985

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Identifier: CC-60311-61101
Scope and Contents

Grumman made this one of two colllages after he visited the Sackner Artchive a day previously. In this collage, the letter 'P' ithat completes the word "POEM" s absent. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Creazione Del Verbo: Fluxare / Ferlinghetti, Lawrence ; Hendricks G ; Severi R., 2005

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Identifier: CC-51720-72820
Scope and Contents

This book is stated to be a limited edition but the tirage is not provided. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Criptogrammi e Scritture Etrusche / Fedi, Fernanda ; Ferri G ; Isgro E ; Accame V ; Munari B ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29784-31162
Scope and Contents

Mention is made that the Sackner Archive holds works by Fedi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Cristoforo Returns, 1992

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]
Identifier: CC-23480-23925
Scope and Contents

Poem deals with 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. Included in a plastic envelope as "7 Assorted Pieces." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly. No.3-4 / Ted Plantos, editor ; curry jw ; Copithorne J ; Nichol bp ; Gorman L ; Basmajian S ; UU D ; bissett b ; Evason G ; lefler P ; Wah F ; Riddell J ; Shikatani G ; Power N ; Truhlar R., 1987

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Identifier: CC-20774-21179
Scope and Contents

Includes several essays on the historic beginnings of Canadian concrete, visual, and sound poetry. The Archive for the essay by jw curry, Defying Linear Deification... is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Crossing the Sea of Ink / Seille, Genevieve ; Cardinal R., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34955-36670
Scope and Contents In these paintings, more vivid colors begin to appear in Seille's work. Roger Cardinal contributes a particularly sensitive essay about Seille's personality. On the WEB, Roger Cardinal's essay: If writing remains one of our most cherished modes of communication, then it is because we associate the effort of transcribing words onto paper with a genuine desire for clarity and contact. Often of course, a person's handwriting is ungainly or crabbed, yet we still attribute purpose to its markings. Messages matter to us, and we are seldom blase when we trip over a phrase in a loved one's postcard and struggle to disentangle the scrawl letter by letter. What we cannot decipher, we gawp at in bemusement. Such bemusement remains an essential ingredient in the artmaking of Geneviève Seille. As a child at school, she fell in love with the sensation of her nib scudding across the paper during handwriting classes. "It was a magical moment", she recalls, "the quiet only interrupted by the...
Dates: 2000

Crossroads / Essaydi, Lalla., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48788-69822
Scope and Contents

The artist photographs Arabic people in their native garments and overlays Arabic calligraphy over their bodies and in the background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Cruciverba / Guillot, Anna., 1986

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Identifier: CC-10054-10253
Scope and Contents

The text is written on painted white crumpled paper mounted on wooden board. The lower portion has typed text in Italian and English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Cure AIDS, 1993

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-09543-9733
Scope and Contents

The poem object and envelope are heart shaped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Curvd H&Z: Card 31: Ruins Of C. No.234/Aug / bp Nichol., 1983

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Identifier: CC-18418-18790
Scope and Contents

Also designated th wrecking ballzark #55. The image was drawn by bp Nichol in 1973. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983