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Conventional non-fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1831 Collections and/or Records:

You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence: Crafts Discourse and the Common Reader In Canadian Poetry Book Reviews / Mancini, Donato ; Colombo JR ; Betts G ; Acorn M ; Bok C., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55269-9999031
Scope and Contents Linda Hutcheon (Amazon.com): While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is at stake in the reviewing of poetry? What fantasies are inherent to the practice? How is poetry itself produced in the reviewing of poetry? Why has the reviewing of poetry remained largely invisible to self-reflexive critique? These are some of the many questions You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence dares to ask in its query to determine if poetry reviewers can claim to have the authority the imagine they have over their chosen subject. As a retort to the retrograde trend that is poetry reviewing in Canada, You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is the first book to detail the production and structure of an "aesthetic conscience"...
Dates: 2012

Zany Typhoons / Blazek, Douglas ; Crumb R., 1970

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Identifier: CC-48102-69125
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Robert Crumb designed the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Zen Love Poems / Idell ; Herms G., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08574-8746
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George Herms did the cover drawing and Elias Romero the end drawing. The letter was written by aya. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Zeppelins / McCabe, Chris ; Brecht G ; Miro J ; Apollinaire G ; Cendrars B ; Herbert G., 2008

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Identifier: CC-51521-72619
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The Sackners met Chris McCabe, Libratian of the Saison Poetry Library in London in the company of Sam Winston. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Zodiacpoems / Bielski, Alison ; Barnfield P ; Barnfield G., 1973

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Identifier: CC-31403-32890
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Each poem, that describes a sign of the Zodiac, is accompanied by an ideogram drawn by the Barnfields. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Zwolf / Dencker, Klaus-Peter, editor ; Philippi B ; Harig L ; Stebner G., 1981

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Identifier: CC-15141-15462
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Includes pages from Denker's artist visual poetic books "Die Reise Nach Rom" and "Gedicht: Die personifizierte Schlagzeile." Gedichrt was reproduced in black and white in this book and in color in Zeitschrift fur Fotographie No.32- 33, 1984. The latter is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981