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Box 392

 Container

Contains 42 Results:

British Modernism, Fact or Fiction? - A Debate / Cobbing, Bob; Lucie-Smith, Edward; Finlay IH; Houedard DS; Furnival J; Fernbach-Flarscheim C; Cox K., 1971

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-17781-18150
Scope and Contents

Designated pamphlet seven. Although the title page of this publication announces a debate, the pages consist of photocopied reproductions of concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Life the Universe and Everything / Cobbing, Bob., 1993

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-61913-10004387
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds the book of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Application to Arts Council / Cobbing, Bob., 1995

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-61914-10004388
Scope and Contents

This application led to a book, "Life the Universe and Everything' published by Interim Booksin 1993, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Guests of Richter Library Poetry Series / Cobbing, Bob, editor; Fencott, P.C., editor., 1982

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-17595-17962
Scope and Contents

Consists of signatures of attendees at poetry reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Tan Tandinanan (and other poems) / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-17656-18024
Scope and Contents

This work is a working copy for a performance which utilizes previous published poems by Cobbing with added sound poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Sonic Icons / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-19971-20359
Scope and Contents

Designated Quartos number nine. Cobbing documents the first publication and performance of the poems in this volume which include a reprinting of Hymn to the Sacred Mushroom, Serenade.., Suesequence, Or/Ro, and Beethoven Today. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-19973-20361
Scope and Contents

Cobbing created tautologic variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. Al the pages are printed on white paper stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

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

 Item — Box: 392
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

Some Myths of Concrete Poetry / Cobbing, Bob; Mayer, Peter; Chopin H; Bann S; Finlay IH; Mills S; Belloli C; Finch P; Gomringer E; Wright E; Fahlstrom O; Themerson S; Jandl E; Morgan E; Furnival J., 1972

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-17728-18097
Scope and Contents

Reprinted from Stereo Headphones No.5, 1972. The authors debunk the assertion of Stuart Mills who in Akros No.18, 1972 stated that the poem-poster was introduced by Ian-Hamilton Finlay. They go on to further describe the pioneers of Concrete Poetry in their opinion. Rebuttals to their conclusions by Stephan Bann and Henri Chopin are also published. Mentions that Ernest Fenellosa, who died in 1908, used the term 'concrete poetry' in an essay, 'The Chinese Character as a Medium for Poetry' in 1901. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Writers Forum Check List of Publications / Cobbing, Bob, editor., 1979

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-17736-18105
Scope and Contents

Provides a listing grouped under the classifications used by Cobbing for the publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Printed Matter: Thy Tao Thou / Bob Cobbing; Alex Lacer., 1971

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-17514-17880
Scope and Contents

The object has the shape of a triangle and can be read from either the recto or verso sides. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Kwatz / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-17464-17830
Scope and Contents

Cobbing writes that the twelve poems in this series "have a unity on the edge of poetry and graphic art; further, typewriter camera letraset drawn letter and duplicator techniques combine to say kwatz!" (a Chinese-Zen meaningless word). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Poems for the Northwest Territories / Cobbing, Bob., 1975

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-17496-17862
Scope and Contents

Cobbing writes that these originals were "ideas sorted out for use in Poems for the N.W. Territories (some used as Christmas Cards). In the event, most of this batch of work was mislaid and the N.W. Territory poems were largely created on the day of printing." The abstract markings of the monoprints are sound poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Ta-A-Ti (Original and 4 Performance Sheets) / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

 Item — Box: 392
Identifier: CC-17570-17936
Scope and Contents

Consists of original collage made from colored papers and four black & white prints made from the collage by a photocopier technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989