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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 485 Collections and/or Records:

Archive of Retour au Japon: calligrames et fragments de journal intime, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27683-28771
Scope and Contents

The book is a diary of Bory's trip to Japan along with 25 concrete and visual poems about his experience there. The poems are designated calligrammes by Bory. The sketches for the concrete poems in ink and graphite were subsequently printed from a computer with a laseror nk jet printed -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Are Your Children Safe? In the Sea? / Cobbing, Bob., July 1998

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-44990-47166
Scope and Contents

This work was published as a triptych of prints in 1964 and then as broadsides in Eyearun in 1966. Cobbing stated on title page that first publication was 1966 but the Sackner Archive holds the prints published in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: July 1998

Au Pair Girl 1, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-56273-9999711
Scope and Contents

The photograph appears to be a distorted image of the repeticious title placed on a loose fabric. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Au Pair Girl 2, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-56274-9999712
Scope and Contents

The photograph appears to be a distorted image of the repeticious title placed on a loose fabric. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Basil Bunting - Poem for Two Voices / Cobbing, Bob., 1974

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17672-18040
Scope and Contents

All the words in this poem begin with the letter "b." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17468-17834
Scope and Contents

Cobbing created repeticious text variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. The pages have yellow and orange color -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
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

Before After Birth Death, 1988

 Item — Box 58: [Barcode: 31858072538576]
Identifier: CC-10330-10533
Scope and Contents

Four wooden, pie-shaped panels painted BEFORE AFTER in black are hinged to the circular wood base painted DEATH BIRTH in red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Big Numbers , 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-53084-74230
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a wide range of Pie O's poems that often are spinkled with an Australian dialect. The pages from his visit to America on a Guggenheim fellowship deals with his political views as an anarchist. He dedicated this book to Thalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Bilderspiegel, 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-49055-70093
Scope and Contents

In this book which is also designated as Tangenten No.4, a small square of mirror is set in stamped out thin card pages. One glassine page overlays it with a printed magic square poem. Parts of the backing of the mirror have been scatched out by the artist and it has been glued down to the card. Poetry has been printed on the pages with the stamped out sections. This book was edited by Walter Aue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Bill Jubobe, 1977

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-18756-19130
Scope and Contents

This work was made for a performance in Saarbrucken, West Germany, January 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Bill Jubobe: Selected Texts of Bob Cobbing 1942-1975 / Cobbing, Bob ; O'Huigen, Sean., 1976

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-17490-17856
Scope and Contents

This is an anthology of Cobbing's works textural and abstract xerox works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

bird (291065), 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56013-9999471

Black (cover), 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-49039-10002909
Scope and Contents

Khu-En-Oho is another name for d.a. levy -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.


The booklet is formed from three poems: "Black Hat : At the End of the Bar,"3 American Tanka"/"3 Tanks," and "Egyptian Stroboscope." Though they do not appear in the table of contents, four other shorter poems are mingled throughout: "Iron Cross of the Sun," "SCrape the SKY-rapeR,"Flying Muslim," and "Judgement I."

Dates: 1966