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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1840 Collections and/or Records:

The Spacialist / Blitz, Michael ; MacLow J ; Olson C ; Woodbine P., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-22185-22607
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Jackson MacLow, cover design by Paul Woodbine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The Spectra Hoax / Smith, William Jay., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36331-38121
Scope and Contents

The author reveals the story of a literary hoax, and the actual poems published by the Spectra poets, Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish. Smith also contributes a preface relating the hoax to contemporary cultural values. Originally published in 1961. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Story of the Last Book of the Rich Alphabetical Hours of the Chopins / Chopin, Henri., 1984

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Identifier: CC-17072-17429
Scope and Contents

Chopin describes how he produced a typewriter poem for every day of the year 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Strange Coherence of Our Dreams / Aldridge, Adele ; Claire, Williaim F.., 1973

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Identifier: CC-58510-10001731
Scope and Contents

Drawings and linocuts were done by Adele Aldridge and poems by William F. Claire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

The Sweetness of the Breath of Two Who Breathe as One / Young, Karl., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00147-152
Scope and Contents

The poem consists of printed text, which reads in part, "Given the nature of oxygen through the biosphere over time, you have probably breathed some of the same air as at least one of the following people: Moses, Buddha, Sappho, Jesus...and the first to experience unselfish love." Young's written poem of the title reads from right to left and bottom to top. It is positioned below the printed text and taken from 2300 year old Latin text. Young concludes "You may have shared a breath with its author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Tenth Arch / Cremean, Robert., 1996

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Identifier: CC-38409-40314
Scope and Contents

This book is a sequel to "Vatican Corridor: a Non-Specific Autobiography." The book is not paginated as the author considers it as two walls that the reader may wander through in his own inclination and discretion. On the compact disc, Cremean reads the text of his book that incorporates his philosophy on making art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Tin Can / Smith, William Jay ; DePol, John., 1988

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Identifier: CC-42596-44612
Scope and Contents

William Jay Smith also contributed an afterward. The wood engravings are by John DePol and M.A. Gelfand is the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Triumph of the Anti-Christ / Bentley, Wilder., 1987

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Identifier: CC-23294-23734
Scope and Contents

Author states that no more than 499 copies will be printed of this pre-publication copy that apparently was never printed as a trade edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Typewriter Revolution & Other Poems / Enright, D.J.., 1971

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Identifier: CC-13747-14051
Scope and Contents

Contains a single reproduction of a poem using a typewriter with its content about the typewriter in poetry; the remainder of the book consists of printed conventional poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971