Conventional non-fiction

The cover and title page depict a poem shaped like bars in a prison cell with the repeated words LA NUIT and the words "du prisonnier" in the middle. The book includes a reproduction of a Valentiner Hugo black and white portrait of Guy Levis-Mano. The name "Jean Garamond" printed on the cover as responsible for the images is a non-de-plume for Guy Levis-Mano. This one of 40 copies of the book is printed on Holland paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1945

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

La Parola Liberata / Anonimo., 1979

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Identifier: CC-26952-27426

Dates: 1979

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

La Poesie algerienne / Koraichi, Rachid., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41561-43551

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This sophisticated children's book combines a conventional poem in French, a translation in Arabic and a multi-colored calligraphic interpretation by Koraichi. The poems were selected by Waciny Laredj and the conventional Arabic calligraphy was done by Ghani Alani. The poems by Algerian poets date from 1168 to contemporary times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

La Quinta Del Sordo (Goya's Disparates) / Monk, Geraldine., 1980

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Identifier: CC-47806-68825

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The poems are based upon five of Goya's etchings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

La Rue Est un Reve / Pelieu, Claude., 1989

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Identifier: CC-03798-3870

Dates: 1989

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Ladera Este (1962-1968) / Paz, Octavio ; Cage J., 1969

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Identifier: CC-04747-4836

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Includes one shaped poem on page 127. This is the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Ladybug Laws / Moriarty, Laura., 2009

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Identifier: CC-52183-73304

Dates: 2009

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

L'Alphabet des Aveux / de Vilmorin, Louise., 1954

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Identifier: CC-15938-16273

Scope and Contents Jean Hugo illustrated this book that was also published in 49 copies on velin paper. The book includes seven calligrams in a style reminiscent of Apollinaire's poems.Wikipedia: Marie Louise Leveque de Vilmorin (4 April 1902 -- 26 December 1969) was a French novelist, poet and journalist.Born in the family chateau at Verrieres-le-Buisson, Essonne, a suburb southwest of Paris, she was heir to a great French seed company fortune, that of Vilmorin. She was afflicted with a slight limp that became a personal trademark. Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic or artistic milieu. Her most famous novel was Madame de..., published in 1951, which was adapted into the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de... (1953), directed by Max Ophuls and starring Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio de Sica. Vilmorin's other works included Juliette, La lettre dans un taxi, Les belles amours, Saintes-Unefois, and Intimites. Her letters to...

Dates: 1954

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Land Stadt Flucht: Gedichte , 2002

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Identifier: CC-41099-43080

Dates: 2002

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

Landscape M / Backer, Heimrad ; Patrick Greaney., 2013

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Identifier: CC-58493-10001712

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Backer (1925-2003) was the editor of Neue Texte. Adam Lerner contributed a forward to the catalog in which he described Backer as a "life artist" because he devoted the entire body of his life's work to an enterprise that comprised a movement toward a single goal - dedicating his career as a photographer, sculpture, poet and editor to" coming to terms with his teenage involvement in the Hitler Youth and the Nazi Party." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Lapokalipso / Duguay, Raoul., 1971

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Identifier: CC-52942-74082

Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Raoul Duguay (born February 13, 1939) is an artist, poet, musician, and political activist in the Canadian province of Quebec. He been an active performer since 1966. Duguay is a longtime supporter of the Quebec sovereigntist movement and has run for public office on at least two occasions.Duguay was born in Val d'Or in the Abitibi region of Quebec, an event that he later chronicled on the semi-autobiographical track "La bittt Ã Tibi" on his first album. He began writing poetry in the 1950s, and his first two anthologies were published in 1966 and 1967.He met Walter Boudreau in 1967, and the two artists formed L'Infonie shortly thereafter. This project was intended both as a music group and a new approach to collective improvisation; Duguay published its manifesto in 1970. The group released a number of albums on the avant-garde side of Quebec's progressive rock and jazz-rock scenes before dissolving in 1973. Boudreau and Duguay have re-united on occasion since then,...

Dates: 1971

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books