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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1840 Collections and/or Records:

The Moment / Patchen, Kenneth., 1960

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Identifier: CC-04290-4370
Scope and Contents

The poems date from 1955 and were printed in the portfolio, Glory Never Guesses 1955. The paper stock in this book differs from the paper used in their first publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

The North American Book of the Dead / levy, d.a. ; Kryss TL., 1966

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Identifier: CC-07240-7383
Scope and Contents

The theme of this poem deals with Zen and an afterlife place whose description was inspired by the Tibetan book of the Dead. The poem has five parts; the first two which were published in 1965 have been extensively revised and three parts added. The latter are bound upside down. Three drawings are reproduced in the book. The cover, a watercolor by levy, has a darker, more developed structure than the other copy of this book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Notebooks / Rothenberg, Jerome ; Meltzer D ; Celan P., 1976

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Identifier: CC-31527-33020
Scope and Contents

This book predates and includes thoughts and notes that were included in "Big Jewish Book." of 1978, also held by the Sackner Archive. The covers, end papers, and text graphics are reprinted from angelic and planetary seals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

The Old Stonypath Hoy / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Hincks, Gary., 1991

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Identifier: CC-11839-12060
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book deal with old sailing boat events. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Poet Exposed / Felver, Christopher ; Bernstein C ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Ginsberg A ; Giorno J ; Hirschman J ; Hollo A ; MacLow J ; McClure M ; Padgett R ; Rothenberg J ; Saroyan A ; Schwerner A ; Coolidge C ; Sanders E ; Creeley R ; Antin D ; Ashbery J., 1986

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Identifier: CC-11213-11428
Scope and Contents

Photographic portraits of 101 contemporary American poets are matched with their personal, handwritten signed prose, poetic statements, and/or drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The Poetry of Mickey Spillane / Adlers, Bengt., 1980

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Identifier: CC-24360-24812
Scope and Contents

First book in the trilogy "POETIX" in which Adlers collected words and phrases from the Spillane novels and reused them to form his own texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The PoPedology of an Ambient Language / Torres, Edwin., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47958-68981
Scope and Contents

Using ambient language"-fragments, excerpts, stage directions, echoes, conversation snippets, syntactic undulation, and rigorous sonic chaos -- Edwin Torres creates an alchemy of language, what he calls "electrobabble" and "algorithmictotem." Amid the fast-paced frenzy of his lyrical style, Torres finds an excited reason for hope and purpose: "one by one/ the rhythmic yuwanna/ will climb the fearist/ the murmuring yugottit/ will find the liminal/ the metronomed howboutit/ will catch the kicker." Amid such restless verbal motion, things will happen, things must happen; as order will emerge from disorder, a sense of calm gradually suffuses THE POPEDOLOGY OF AN AMBIENT LANGUAGE. "This all impossible/ But I appear it on page, so/ Becomes possible on way-through page." This book is also designated Atelos 29. The front cover title contains colored letters PAGE. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

The Position of Things: Collected Poems 1961-1962, 2008

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Identifier: CC-51779-72879
Scope and Contents

Beppe Cavatorta contributed an essay on Spatola's poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

The Properties of Breath / Korelitz, Jean Hanff., 1988

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Identifier: CC-07860-8013
Scope and Contents

There are three major poems opening each section of this book of poetry, each of which relates to cigarette smoking. The first, "Descending the Lung," reads "Hand over hand, we inch. Our grips are fine hairs, moving in their tides. We sink from rung landscape, arcing to the edges of the body. Looking over shoulders we can see it: lung, translucent mine, its dim. We cannot move our feet for the mire the smoke mahes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988