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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

Hopi Set / Ossman, David., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-04953-5050
Scope and Contents

One 1 of 12 poem cards -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Hornbook / Mayer, Peter., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-06590-6709
Scope and Contents

The hornbook was the first lesson book on reading used by students in elementary school in the last century. In this card, Mayer substituted erotic images arranged in a grid for the slang meaning of horn(y) to designate another kind of hornbook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Hot Day / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Jo., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35235-36969
Scope and Contents

The image on this card is a black and white drawing of persons rowing in a lake. The names listed in the poem are the Hincks family. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Housepress Murmur: Basho's Narrow Road: 2 Decades (2nd printing). No.3 / brian david j(o(h)n)ston., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-36685-38499
Scope and Contents

Johnson constrasts a visual interpretation of Basho's haiku made about 1990 with a computer image made about 2000. The colophon mentions that this is the second printing to correct a typo in the first printing three months previously. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Housepress Murmur: Basho's Narrow Road: 2 Decades. No.3 / brian david j(o(h)n)ston., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-36756-38579
Scope and Contents

Johnson constrasts a visual interpretation of Basho's haiku made about 1990 with a computer image made about 2000. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Hovis / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Hincks, Gary., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35257-36991
Scope and Contents

Hovis is England's most famous brown bread brand. The first page depicts a line drawing of a bread loaf placed on a brown square, the second page a line drawing of a brick placed on a brown square and the third page a line drawing of a sail placed on a brown square. All have been labeled "Hovis." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

How beautiful in thehalf-light of the full moon woman is / Hirschman, Jack A.; Ferlinghetti L; Conz F., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-58477-10001697
Scope and Contents

The daguerrotypes represent portraits of prostitutes in a whorehouse at the beginning of the 20th century and the verses proposed as authentic anthems to feminity recall the tradition of Haiku. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

[How he hated...] , 1984

 Item — Box 330: [Barcode: 31858072490968]
Identifier: CC-52454-73580
Scope and Contents

This card is part of the Bug House Archives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Huff Lane, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35081-36809
Scope and Contents

According to this book, published to commemorate Christmas 2000, HUFF, n. is defined as follows: a fit of anger, sulks, or offended dignity (Chambers); a fit of petulance caused by an affront (Oxford); an armed withdrawal (IHF). The pages consist of black and white photographs of plants in Finlay's gardens as well as wood or stone engraved benches with aphorisms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Hulls (1) Hulls (2), 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35426-37161
Scope and Contents

Hulls (1) consists of 43 leaves of intersperced single names of fishing boats, one to a page, with varied numbers of colored paper stock signifying the colors on their hulls. Hulls (2) uses the names of the colors, black on 22 leaves of white paper stock to identify the hulls. The books were made by Colin Sackett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

HUMPHRIES Out That The Rib-Planes Decline, 1990

 Item — Folder 21: [Barcode: 31858072459807]
Identifier: CC-09256-9438
Scope and Contents

This drawing that depicts an anatomical view of the thorax with text from an ancient anatomy book was given as a gift to the Sackners for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Hungry Zipper: Father. No.6/May / M. Kettner., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09863-10057
Scope and Contents

The image of an impossible machine on the cover and its caption on the inside of the back cover do not have an obvious connection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Hungry Zipper: Penis Flytrap. No.1/Feb / Brian David Johnston., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-09858-10052
Scope and Contents

The image on the front cover is a zipper & the caption is "Venus Flytrap." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Hungry Zipper: Penis Flytrap. No.1/Feb / Brian David Johnston., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-09862-10056
Scope and Contents

The image on the front cover is a zipper & the caption is "Venus Flytrap." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989