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Subject Source: Sackner Database

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Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974 - 1979 / Howe, Susan., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27876-29015
Scope and Contents

The poems selected by the author for this volume are largely autobiographical and are printed in block-like forms. Much of Howe's writing reflects her New England, patriarchal background and her transition from the visual to the written word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Frammis / Hirschman, Jack A., editor ; Mueller, Jack, editor ; Meltzer D ; Herms G ; Berman W ; Stockwell D ; Chapman K ; Wetterhahn K ; Celan P ; Koslow M., 1979

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Identifier: CC-36632-38443
Scope and Contents

The book was published as a tribute to the Wallace Berman retrospective at the University Museum in Berkeley. The poems by several contributors were written by Hiirschman and photocopied for this book. There are several photocopied drawings and collages scattered through the book. The cover design was adapted from a grid of four Verifax pieces done by Wallace Berman in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Frammis / Hirschman, Jack A., editor ; Mueller, Jack, editor ; Meltzer D ; Herms G ; Berman W ; Stockwell D ; Chapman K ; Wetterhahn K ; Celan P ; Koslow M., 1979

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Identifier: CC-36638-38449
Scope and Contents

The book was published as a tribute to the Wallace Berman retrospective at the University Museum in Berkeley. The poems by several contributors were written by Hiirschman and photocopied for this book. There are several photocopied drawings and collages scattered through the book, some photocopied colored for this deluxe edition. The cover design was adapted from a grid of four Verifax pieces done by Wallace Berman in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Freelance / Reid, Christopher; Phillips T., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41147-43129
Scope and Contents

The writer describes his collection of prostitutes' business cards found on public phone booths in London. He notes that he was pleased that "Tom Phillips was an aficionado. There's a man with a sharp eye for whatever happens to combine artistic and anthropological interest. Of course he has a respectable excuse for his fascination: something to do with the cards representing the survival of 'folk art' in our city centres." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

From A to Z: 200 Contemporary American Poets / Ray, David, editor ; Berrigan D ; Bly R ; Hollo A ; Levertov D ; Eigner L ; Williams J ; Malanga G., 1981

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Identifier: CC-44175-46301
Scope and Contents

Wang Hui-Ming contributes a section of wood carved poems that he describes as "pages visually [filled] with poetic rocks and puddles so that you have to slow down and read the poems carefully. There is no intent to achieve typographical niceties." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

From Stone to Star / Caldiero, A.F.., 1977

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Identifier: CC-47762-68781
Scope and Contents

Some of these poems in this book appeared in Clown War, a publication held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

From the Blue Book of Trumpington / Clews, Steve ; Adler J ; Cheek C., 1976

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Identifier: CC-17156-17514
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Jeremy Adler;and the printing by Chris Cheek. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

From the Murky Depths: Fathoming Saint-Exupery's Lasting Appeal / Ivry, Benjamin; deVilmorin L., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42391-44401
Scope and Contents

This article describes the weckage of an airplane crash that killed Antoine Saint-Exupery in WW II. Saint-Exculpery was the author of the most successful children's book, "The Little Prince." He had a broken engagement with Louise de Vilmorin, an author whose two books with calligrams are held by th Sackner Archive. She was described as enchantingly irresistible by biographers but Evelyn Waugh called her "an egocentric maniac with the eyes of a witch." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Front Lines, 2002

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Identifier: CC-41945-43941
Scope and Contents

Also designated Pocket Poets Series No.55. Agnetta Falk contributed a calligraphic visual portrait rendering of Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Fuck Off... , 1969

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Identifier: CC-48065-69088

Fuckwind / Pickard, Tom., 1999

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Identifier: CC-37132-38975
Scope and Contents

This book may have been written by Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999