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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Readings: 5 Programmes of Poems with Notes / Cobbing, Bob., 1974

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17609-17977
Dates: 1974
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1974

Spearhead 2nd Edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1972

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-17484-17850
Scope and Contents

Designated pamphlets number nine. A performance copy of this work with added notes is also held by the Sackner Archive. it has the title, "Ana 1 - 5." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1972

Spearhead 3rd Edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1973

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-17485-17851
Scope and Contents

Designated pamphlets number nine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1973

Ten Poems for Cantebury / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17498-17864
Scope and Contents

Most of the poems in this book have been published previously. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1977

The Electric Alphabet First Edition, 1986

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-24353-24805
Scope and Contents

A second deluxe edition illustrated by Jiri Sindler was published in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

The Smallest Book in the World, 2002

 Item — Box 201: [Barcode: 31858072459716]
Identifier: CC-40949-42927
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of a designer alphabet by Reichert. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Twenty-six Letters, 1998

 Item — Box 293: [Barcode: 31858072460730]
Identifier: CC-32093-33630
Scope and Contents

The book was designed, printed and handbound by Johnson. The illustrations, based on the original style of Thomas Tenniel, the original illustrator of Alice in Wonderland, were recreated by Yvonne van Rietschoten. The letters were written by Lewis Carroll a.k.a. C.L. Dodgson and printed with a computor by the author. Twenty-six letters were chosen addressed to 26 people in alphabetical order of their first name. Each letter of the alphabet with an illustration is printed on the outside of each envelope page. This book was awarded the Bienes Book prize at the Broward County public library. Marvin Sackner served as one of three jurors in this selection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Vertical Alphabet (14) SE, 1990

 Item — Box 194: [Barcode: 31858072459641]
Identifier: CC-33969-35641
Scope and Contents

Each page is typed with lines of lower case letters a to z and then z to a. Each successive page is over-typed with increasing density such that the additional letters create a moire effect. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)