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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1840 Collections and/or Records:

The Big Bing / Bing, Stanley., 2003

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Identifier: CC-44198-46324
Scope and Contents Publishers Weekly: "Twenty years of columns by business humorist Bing (Throwing the Elephant; What Would Machiavelli Do?) from Fortune and Esquire add up to a very funny look at the contemporary executive. The media exec/writer organizes his collected works into a surprisingly coherent whole, containing 11 thematic sections that range from "The Tao of How" (tips on giving good phone and taking lunch with distinction) to "Up and Out" (advice on surviving career death and getting paid to go away). Often, related columns present complete story cycles; Y2K comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb while Bing fires away. "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap chops up companies and then falls on his own blade. Quizzes punctuate the columns: the worst scores on "The Bing Ethics Test" mean "you're a scumball and should do very well." Whenever the outward hostility gets tiring, Bing happily skewers himself. He suffers emotional collapse when he misplaces his BlackBerry and his cell phone:...
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

The Black Mountain Book / Dawson, Fielding ; Olson C ; Williams J., 1970

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Identifier: CC-14847-15160
Scope and Contents

This is a new, revised edition of a book first published in 1970. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Book Collection That Devoured My Life / Sante, Luc., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48130-69153
Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

The Book of Daze / Shores, Michael., 1990

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Identifier: CC-01982-2019
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Book of First Books, 1978

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Identifier: CC-27154-27629
Scope and Contents

Second edition listing of first books by 2000 American and British writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

The Burroughs File , 1984

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Identifier: CC-30497-31925
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition. It includes reproductions of "Pages from Cut-Up Scrapbooks" in which Burroughs' pasted remnants from "Moroccan streets, weird news items, St. Louis memorabilia, ruminations on sex and death, old photographs, notes from narcs, and other essential exotica - an incredible montage of telescoped existence on the main line, source material and matrix of his books." There are also sections of Burroughs' The White Subway, The Old Movies, The Cobble Stone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

The Bury Poems: Works on Paper / Davenport, Philip, editor ; Grenier R ; Silliman R ; Huth G ; Davenport G., 2011

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Identifier: CC-55037-998890
Dates: 2011
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Captain Poetry Poems Complete / Nichol, bp ; curry jw ; bissett b., 2011

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Identifier: CC-55219-9998981
Scope and Contents Book Thug Internet: Poetry, comic book art, pop culture, concrete poetry, the lyric, the myth of the cowboy, even the myth of the poet-hero: these are just some of the avenues explored by bpNichol in The Captain Poetry Poems. In this short portrait of the poet as a young man, our hero is a dilemma: part fabrication and part confession, Cap is a character created by these poems that extends their author into realms of possible identities. Who is Captain Poetry? Is he a poet? Is he a hero? Is he the bearer of heretofore important and unknown knowledge? Written at a time when questions about what poetry might be; when questions about what the figure of the poet might be, The Captain Poetry Poems showed Nichol grappling with some of the cliches inherent to both his craft and his identity. Playful, even at times silly, but never without the human intelligence Nichol is best known for, these poems may not be the "best" work in Nichol's oeuvre, but their experiments reveal important...
Dates: 2011
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Captain Poetry Poems / Nichol, bp., 1971

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Identifier: CC-55218-53873
Scope and Contents This book was reissued by Book Thug in 2011 with a new afterword by bill bissett.Internet: This book tells the story of the eponymous superhero and his struggle to find happiness. Bald, beaked and wattled, "Cap""”Nichol's pet name for him"”is hardly the rock-jawed conqueror. In fact, with his visor, spandex, wings and six-pack abs, our man looks like a mutant chicken. Cap is a sad sack: self-conscious, plagued by doubts, undone by indecision, torn about his purpose in life. Nichol shouts encouragements from the sidelines ("O CAPTAIN POETRY SEE IT THRU") but, plum out of ideas, Cap finds himself in a Groundhog Day funk ("O he sings like a madman, talks like he's sane, / and does it each day again and again"). And popping up everywhere in the book (in one case even cradling Captain Poetry's head) is Nichol's most intriguing and disquieting alter ego: Milt the Morph, the dementedly smiling, empty-eyed troublemaker. It's obvious Nichol intended the book to be both a send-up of the...
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

the change 2nd issue / Ginsberg, Allen ; Nuttall J., 1963

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Identifier: CC-44631-46794
Scope and Contents

Also designated Writers Forum Poets number five. Jeff Nuttall designed the covers. The first issue consisted of 12 copies in which Ginsberg's name was misspelled as Ginsburg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Chaos / Nolst Trenite, Gerard., 1993

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Identifier: CC-61892-10004363
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Cheat of Words, 1996

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Identifier: CC-30136-31534
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems / Smith, William Jay ; Dupont A., 2002

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Identifier: CC-46264-48985
Scope and Contents These poems relate the story of the trail of tears suffered by the American Indians on their forced removal to reservations. The book cover is from an engraving by the French artist Albert Dupont that first apperaed in Smith's book, Le Sentier (The Trail). From Booklist: "Smith's sequence of moving, extraordinarily visual poems brings us to the heart of one of the nation's greatest tragedies and, many say, sins--the "removal" of the five civilized tribes, via the Trail of Tears, from their homelands in the eastern U.S. to the Oklahoma territory. Part Choctaw himself, Smith uses several different voices in the sequence, such as those of an old Choctaw on the trail, remembering the "buzzard man" who presided over funeral rites, while mourning the many who died without such appropriate ritual; the great Choctaw chief, Pushmataha, who traveled to Washington in a failed attempt to gain a hearing for his people; and artist Charles Banks Wilson, sketching the last of the purebloods in...
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

The Cherokee Lottery / Smith, William Jay ; Dupont A ; Catlin G., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34503-36201
Scope and Contents

Smith calls this volume "a sequence of poetry" that is related to the history of the American Indians and their forced relocation from their traditional lands to Western reservations. Albert Dupont contributes a cover engraving and black and white illustration that first appeared in Le Sentier by Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Church The School The Beer / Cheek, Cris., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47209-49952
Scope and Contents

This book is also issue No.3 of Plantarchy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Church The School The Beer / Cheek, Cris., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48969-70007
Scope and Contents

This book is also designated issue No.3 of Plantarchy. the Sasckner Archive also holds a signed and inscribed copy of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

the clevelanders / Horvath, Alan, editor ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Lowell J ; levy da ; rjs ; Cook G ; Taylor K ; Kryss TL., 2002

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Identifier: CC-40295-42266
Scope and Contents

This book reprints poems by Lowell, levy, rjs, Cook, and Taylor. In addition, there are reproductions of unpublished paintings by Levy and collages by rjs. Unpublished poems by Taylor and Kryss are also printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

the clevelanders vol.II / Horvath, Alan, editor ; Lowell J ; levy da ; rjs ; Taylor K ; Kryss TL ; Simon A ; Salamon R ; Butcher G ; Atkins R ; Billera J., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46067-48775
Scope and Contents

This book reprints "The Cleveland Manifesto of Poetry" (1964). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

the clevelanders vol.III / Horvath, Alan, editor ; levy da ; rjs ; Taylor K ; Kryss TL ; Simon A ; Salamon R ; Butcher G ; Lowell J ; Werner R ; Clinefelter J ; Horvath A ; Bree ; Schaefer M ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2006

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Identifier: CC-48669-69701
Scope and Contents

This collection depicts a detail of a d.a.levy painting, "Non-Sectarian Crucifiction," that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Coherences / Hollo, Anselm ; Phillips, Tom., 1968

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Identifier: CC-31708-33218
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips contributed four abstract and constructivistic line drawings that are reproduced in the book. This first edition was designed and printed by Asa Benveniste and Paul Vaughan. This anthology includes The Going-On Poem published by Writers Forum as Quarto One in 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

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