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Conventional non-fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1840 Collections and/or Records:

Enough of the Hills and Woods / Dezso, Andrea., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47510-68508
Scope and Contents

Andrea Dezso has illustrated this article about family holiday communcations with reproductions of stitching of families, airplanes, Christmas trees, computers and cars. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets / Johnson, Kent, editor ; Kunitz S ; Simic C ; Antin D ; Graham J ; Andrews B ; Bernstein C ; Lehman D ; Ashbery J ; Koch K ; MacLow J ; Howe S ; Beer J ; Davis J ; Lauterbach A ; Whalen P ; Lin T ; Sondheim A ; Daniels C ; Eshleman C ; Palmer M ; Bly R ; Lifshin L ; Stefans BK ; Merwin W ; Joris P ; Creeley R ; Padgett R ; Evans S ; McCord H ; Davies A ; Silliman R ; Elmslie K ; Yau J ; Alexander W ; Grenier R ; Debrot J ; Codrescu A ; Baraka A ; Watten B ; Damon M ; Smith R ; Bromige D ; Hejinian L ; Alexander C ; Robinson A ; Napora J ; Wieners J ; Dworkin C ; Howe F ; Featherstone D ; Luoma B ; Wakoski D ; Snyder G ; DiPalma R ; Lazer H ; Edson R ; Young D ; Scalapino L., 2004

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Identifier: CC-50164-71228
Scope and Contents An Epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. Derived from the Greek: "to write on - inscribe"[1], the literary device has been employed for over two millennia. The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuaries "” including statues of athletes "” and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it to the Spartans, passer-by"¦". These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse. Epigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period, probably developing out of scholarly collections of inscriptional epigrams. Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between 'epigram' and 'elegy' is sometimes indistinct (they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise. Many of the...
Dates: 2004

Erlangen 1686-1986 / Meidinger-Geise, Inge, editor., 1986

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Identifier: CC-06368-6485
Scope and Contents

Reproduces pages of Dencker's book, Walter Donat's Gedicht. Signed with holographic letter from Dencker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Este protervo zas 2nd edition / Millan, Fernando., 2004

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Identifier: CC-49579-70627
Scope and Contents

The 1st edition was published in 1969 and is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Ethernity / Brannen, Jonathan ; Raphael D., 1989

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Identifier: CC-21540-21951
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Dan Raphael. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Euphorbia / Levine, Anne-Marie ; Asher, Elise., 1994

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Identifier: CC-37338-39190
Scope and Contents

Elise Asher contributed a surrealistic landscape handcolored print of a glass filled with white sand, a sun dial with the moon in the heaven. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Exiles / Foley, Jack ; Berry J ; Baudelaire C., 1996

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Identifier: CC-33067-34692
Scope and Contents

The reading of the tape was performed by Jack and Adelle Foley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Exilio-Globo-Ejercito (a grito) / Toscano, Rodrigo ; Howe W., 2009

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Identifier: CC-52459-73585
Scope and Contents

This is the 27th book of the North American Chapbook series. It was designed by William and L.R. Howe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Experioddicist, The. No.8/Mar / Joe Speer., 1995

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Identifier: CC-14299-14607
Scope and Contents

Edited by Jake Berry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Exquisite Corpse. No.4/Apr / Williams J ; Kostelanetz R ; Gerlovina R ; Bakhchanyan V ; Dawson F ; Sukenick R ; Myers Gjr., 1983

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Identifier: CC-14025-14330
Scope and Contents

Jonathan Williams' book of poetry, "The Magpie's Bagpipe" is reviewed by Philip Balla who creates a vivid description of Williams' poetic life style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Eye: Public Art. No.4 / Jeff Greenwald, editor ; Bayer H ; Fish P ; Seamster M., 1983

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Identifier: CC-13988-14293
Scope and Contents

Covers were made by Mary Seamster. The conceptual text by Herbert Bayer was signed by Bayer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Eyeopener. No.13/Dec / curry jw., 1995

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Identifier: CC-14392-14701
Scope and Contents

Contains an essay "Hey, Great Caboose!" which describes a new generation of train hoppers, including john curry and Lance LaRocque, who continue the tradition started in the '30s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Eyes & Objects (Catalogue for an Exhibition 1970-72) / Johnson, Ronald., 1976

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Identifier: CC-29835-31216
Scope and Contents

The catalogue was designed by Alvin Doyle Moore. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Eyes Open / LaChance, Bertrand ; bissett b., 1970

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Identifier: CC-48192-69216
Scope and Contents

bill bissett designed the cover and contributed line drawings to this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970