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Conventional non-fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1852 Collections and/or Records:

Muddy Boots / Gelfman, Lynne Golob ; Cappellazzo, Amy., 1996

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Identifier: CC-40672-42646
Scope and Contents

Texts written by Amy Cappellazzo poetically describe the paintings by Lyn Gelfman in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Multipla / De Campos, Augusto ; De Campos, Haroldo ; Pound E., 1974

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Identifier: CC-14882-15195
Scope and Contents

Includes translations of Ezra Pound's Cantos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Muscle Apple Swift / McClure, Michael ; Herms G., 1970

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Identifier: CC-50577-71650
Scope and Contents

George Herms did the photographic covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Naczynie Powazne / Grzesczak, Marian., 1967

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Identifier: CC-54407-60691
Scope and Contents Internet: Marian Grzescza (1934-2010) A poet , novelist, playwright, essayist, translator, literary critic, editor. He was born on March 22, 1934 in Srem Nochowie circle, died in Warsaw on 27 January 2010. In the years 1952 to 1956 he studied Polish literature and bohemistykę at the University. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He was a co-founder and artistic director of the Student Club Renewal and composing poetry group Wierzbak . Way worked on several magazines, including "Poetry", "Scene", "Cultural Weekly" and "creativity" - the monthly magazine was bound for life. In 1990-1996, he was consul in Czechoslovakia and Counselor of the Embassy of the Slovak Republic and Director of the Institute Polish in Bratislava. In 1996-1999 he served as President of the Board of the Polish Writers' Association. Marian Grześczak published several volumes of poetry, including: Lumpenezje (1960 - Award for best debut of the year) Exit appearances (1961), Thick Light (1965), major vessel...
Dates: 1967

Names / Kregal, Ann., 1985

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Identifier: CC-07864-8017
Scope and Contents

The calligraphic text appears on the cover as a list of names arranged in a spiral-like form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Nascience / Clements, Lindsay., 1985

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Identifier: CC-59665-1000275
Scope and Contents

Clements composed concrete poems as depicted in "Born to Concrete" but none appear in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Nella Coscia del Gigante Bianco / Sanesi, Roberto ; Thomas D., 1975

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Identifier: CC-32945-34561
Scope and Contents

This book offers a critical analysis and visual interpretations of Dylan Thomas' poem, "In the White Giant's Thigh." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Neues U, B, C und Lesse=Buch / Haussius, Carl Gottlob., 1969

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Identifier: CC-36402-38194
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of a German lesson book on reading first published in 1795 in Leipzig. The typeface is based upon an old style German alphabet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

New Impressions of Africa / Roussel, Raymond ; Mark Ford, translator., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52538-73667
Scope and Contents The rhyming of this poem is highly complex as explained by Mark Ford, the translator. Amazon.com: Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle epoque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned. New Impressions of Africa is undoubtedly Roussel's most extraordinary work. Since its publication in 1932, this weird and wonderful poem has slowly gained cult status, and its admirers have included Salvador Dalì--who dubbed it the most "ungraspably poetic" work of the era--Andre Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Koch, and John Ashbery. Roussel began writing New Impressions of Africa in 1915 while serving in the French Army during the First World War and it took him seventeen years to complete. "It is hard to believe the immense amount of time composition of this...
Dates: 2011