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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Nationality

British

Found in 662 Collections and/or Records:

Collected Poems Volume Fifteen: Gibbering His Wares / Cobbing, Bob ; Manson P., 1996

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-31689-33198
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Peter Manson. The final section of this book consists of annotations to the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Collected Poems Volume Five: Girlie Poems / Cobbing, Bob ; Griffiths B., 1982

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17302-17666
Scope and Contents

Girlie poems are works or poems dedicated to 'girls' whose names, at the very least, have fascinated Cobbing. The poems are constructed as permutations, palindromes, and visual scores by overprinting. As noted by Griffiths, the simpler the score, the greater the performance potential because it allows Cobbing wider improvisation. The book reprints a large number of these poems. One copy of this book has an orange color and another a blue color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Collected Poems Volume Four: The Kollekted Kris Kringle / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17349-17713
Scope and Contents

This book includes poetry and performance notes which document several published works by Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Collected Poems Volume Nine: Lame Limping Mangled Marked Mutilated, 1986

 Item — Box 633: [Barcode: 31858072464732]
Identifier: CC-17348-17712
Scope and Contents

David Barton's introductory essay describes Cobbing's work from 1942 to 1986 as the discovery of new sound and movement in poetry. The works reprinted in this book are mainly abstract xerox images from which Cobbing performs sound poetry. Examples of Cobbing's works in "Destruction in Art Movement," some of which are held by the Sackner Archive are also included. Cobbing denotes his mimeograph (a subclassification of "xerox art" in Archive) as duplicatorprints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Collected Poems Volume One: Cygnet Ring / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17306-17670
Scope and Contents

This book includes poems of cut-ups begun in 1956. The method was to decide on the number of lines, clip out newspaper lines of the required number, and paste them up in an effective order to give an appearance of a conventional poem. This work antedates Gysin's 1959 cut-ups, usually attributed as the first to employ it. This book also includes cut-ups of earlier cut-ups, and permutations or mutations based on newspaper headlines but originating from phrases clipped from books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Collected Poems Volume One: Cygnet Ring [Performance Copy] / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17607-17975
Scope and Contents

Cobbing used the structure of the original book and added poems for a performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Collected Poems Volume Seven: Vowels & Consequences / Cobbing, Bob ; Griffiths B., 1985

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17350-17714
Scope and Contents

Bill Griffiths' introductory essay explains how Cobbing has used the duplicator, ink, stencils and over-printing to create texts of shapes and textures. They "move away from word and letter as conventional symbols...into a new semantics of shape. The works in this book date from 1970 to 1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Collected Poems Volume Six: Sockless in Sandals / Cobbing, Bob ; Finch P., 1985

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17304-17668
Scope and Contents

This volume contains poetry from 1976 through July 1985. In his intoductory essay, Peter finch writes that these works are modernist in the found tradition of Duchamp. Many poems are transformed pieces of lists and information reorganized by Cobbing who also performs the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Collected Poems Volume Thirteen: Voice Prints / Cobbing, Bob ; Mottram E ; Higgins D ; Solt ME ; Claire P ; Griffiths B ; Fencott PC ; Metcalfe H., 1993

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-20537-20934
Scope and Contents

In his introduction, Eric Mottram writes that "Voice Prints is for voice performance, and looking or meditating performance...[The] poem-texts or poem-images continue Bob Cobbings's experimental achievements with many uses of words, word-orders and word designs." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Collected Poems Volume Three: A Peal In Air 1968-1970 / Cobbing, Bob ; Truhlar R., 1978

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17303-17667
Scope and Contents

Richard Truhlar writes "Cobbing uses the writer's tools (typewriter, various duplicating machines, ink, etc.) to explore the word and/or letter as hieroglyph, as phonetic symbol, and as concrete graphic interaction of language image with eye and body rhythms." This volume mainly depicts typewriter poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Collected Poems Volume Twelve: Improvisation Is a Dirty Word / Cobbing, Bob., 1991

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-17353-17717
Scope and Contents

Many of the poems in this book, which are generally abstract, were performed by Birdyak (Hugh Metcalfe & Bob Cobbing). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Collected Poems Volume Two: Wan A Do B Tree C / Cobbing, Bob., 1978

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-28763-30070
Scope and Contents

This book incorporates all the material in the two publications, Sound Poems (An A B C in Sound), January 1995, and Kurrirrurriri, November 1967. It consists largely of sound poems though some are written in expressive visual format. The earliest poem in the book, 'Worm' was written in 1954 but did not achieve its final version until 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Computer Graphic Score No.8 / Cobbing, Bob; Millis B., 1986

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-17735-18104
Scope and Contents

Cobbing notes that this piece was performed by the new vocal group "Alphonso" consisting of Bob Cobbing and Bill Millis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986