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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 594 Collections and/or Records:

womb word 1 (051165), 1965

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-56015-59686
Scope and Contents

This version of the poem is typed on the top portion of the page in four columns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

womb word 2 (051165), 1965

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-56016-886644
Scope and Contents

This version of the poem is spaced throughout the page in two columns. It contains the date 051165 handwritten probably by Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

womb word (051165), 1965

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-31367-32844
Scope and Contents

The poem was may have been printed much later than its creation. The Sackner Archive holds the original of this poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Word/Clock, 1984

 Item — Box 276: [Barcode: 31858073143392]
Identifier: CC-20404-20801
Scope and Contents

There are four stacks of moveable leaflets like a roladex file that move randomly with electric power to form minimalist poems. The rearrangement of the words can also be accomplished by turning one of the two knobs brought out to the side. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Words / Andre, Carl; Meyer, James., 1993

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-26613-27083
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was a retrospective of Andre's typewriter poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Writers Forum 1992 is the Anniversary Year / Cobbing, Bob., 1992

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-20345-20742
Scope and Contents

Depicts reproduction of first visual poem made on copying machine in 1942 and another in 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

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

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
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

[Xerox Poems] / Andre, Carl., 1982

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-26046-26508
Scope and Contents

The original typing reproduced on page 21 is held by the Sackner Archive. These poems were not photocopied by Carl Andre. With letter from Jonas Mekas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Yellow Flags, 2010

 Item — Box 194: [Barcode: 31858072459641]
Identifier: CC-54575-990021
Scope and Contents

The original title is "The Triumphal Procession of White Clouds Moving Upstream" and calls to mind his Neo Fauve poem from 'Flags From A Remnant Railway' of 1975. It was first printed as a letterpress postcard on the tredle platten press at The Trent Bookshop in 1969. It was subsequently reprinted in The Sea is Silent by Coracle 1991, amongst other places. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

[yellow yellow yellow] (070963), 1963

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-57865-10001117
Scope and Contents

This typing consists of a zig-zag column of the word yellow and nine words up from the botton the single word green.This is conceptually similar to silencio by Gomringer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Zapp: Censored, 2011

 Item — Box 136: [Barcode: 31858072457843]
Identifier: CC-52055-73157
Scope and Contents

The smaller box contains postcards that Sloy and Nic mailed to the Sackners after the box was sent. The book is an exhibition catalogue from the Oregon Artists Series in which both artists were included. It is slipped into the larger box. All the cards deal with censorship. The box came from tony colomona who was the drummer for the band, "plug," that sloy managed in the 1990s. The box was from deen castronovo's Zappo's shoe box, with his name on the inside of the censored box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Zen Concrete & etc., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-07136-7276
Scope and Contents

This reprinting of levy's concrete poetry was edited by Ingrid Swanberg who acknowledged..."heartfelt thanks to Marvin Sackner for its longstanding belief in this project..." The book is divided into three sections: 1) "Zen Concrete" comprises the entire 23 poem sequence, partly published in Blewointment Press 1967, 2) "& etc." is a wide selection from major poetic works, Cleveland Undercovers and Subterranean Monastery Death Poem, and 3) "afterwords" assembles articles by his friends. The images in this citation include an exhibition of d.a. levy's works as well as works about him that was shown during Art Basel Miami on December 6, 2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991