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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1101 Collections and/or Records:

Philosophie de Cuisine, 1999

 Item — Box 269: [Barcode: 31858072460581]
Identifier: CC-35768-37525
Scope and Contents

The text on the cloth that is printed in red with varied typefaces, deals with food and cooking. The cloth is folded into the jar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Picnic, 1969

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-15246-15568
Scope and Contents Mat stamped "Editore Francesco Conz." Internet: Paul de Vree (13 November 1909 in Antwerp, Belgium - 25 April 1982 in Antwerp, Belgium) was a Belgian poet, artist, publisher and critic. In the early 50s De Vree abandoned writing traditional poetry and then went through the stages of audiovisual poetry, concrete-visual poetry, visual poetry and poesia visiva. His works can be situated in the tradition of the international avant-garde that ran from Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti via Van Ostaijen to Raoul Hausmann and Dada. De Vree created images of poetic, social and existential insights that appeared on constantly changing supports. De Vree was a complex and important figure with an international network and field of activity. He was particularly active in concrete and visual poetry and was important for the arts in his role as a critic and exhibition organiser. In 1953 De Vree initiated and co-founded De Tafelronde (1953-1981) magazine,...
Dates: 1969

Pictoesies, 1998

 Item — Box 128: [Barcode: 31858072458304]
Identifier: CC-33697-35359
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts four horizontally placed squares containing line drawings and texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry, 1958

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-15800-16131
Scope and Contents

Also contains a word key which lists and translates the words each poet uses frequently in his work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

PIPS. No.1 / Claudia Putz, editor., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-34439-36136
Scope and Contents

Stored in box labeled "PIPS flat periodials." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Plakat: Loakrime. No.9 / Philip Ward., 1967

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-57147-51975
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds the original typed manuscript for this poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Includes correspondence between Ward and John Furnival about Loakrime and poems sent to Ian Breakwell

Dates: 1967

Plan / Cobbing, Bob., 21 February 1971

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17487-17853
Scope and Contents

In a personal communication from Paula Claire, she stated that this poem ie 'two' of 'Three Poems for Voice and Movement' by Bob Cobbing (1971). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 21 February 1971

Planet Saturn / Furnival, John., 1968

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13302-13603
Scope and Contents

This black and white print has mathematical symbols, magic squares and words in which one or more of the stylized letters are printed in reverse, upside down. The central image depicts a 4 x 4 grid of numbers, letters and symbols. This is surrounded by a rectangular border of words, suggestive of Saturn's ring (?) that include "Yahweh, Demon, Sazel, Aziel, Spirit, Saturn, Planet." The words "Sazel and Aziel" are not listed in the dictionary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Plucked Plucked Plucked Plucked Plucked, 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-20147-20542
Scope and Contents

A siingle wor is printed on different colored paper stock, viz., PUT, (SIC!), CAT, & TOO. PIZZICATO, Clark's imaginative summation of the four words is printed on the inside back cover. The front cover shows incomplete pin holes on the lower right corner (plucked?) of one copy (purchased from William Allen Books) that is not present in the other. Designated No.114 in bibliography of book entitled "The Printed Performance Brian Lane Works 1966-99." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Poem, 1962

 Item
Identifier: CC-33409-35048
Scope and Contents

This is a textural collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

Poem-Painting Buttons Signs Flags, 1968

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-37519-39375
Scope and Contents

This card was addressed to Dick Higgins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968