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Concrete poetry

 Subject

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1101 Collections and/or Records:

Texts, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-36219-38006
Scope and Contents

This book includes an essay on visual (concrete) poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

(Th) Gossamer Bed Pan, Revised, 1974

 Item — Box 619: [Barcode: 31858072461043]
Identifier: CC-32769-34361
Scope and Contents

This first edition differs from the later, revised edition in its covers, fold-outs, and the presence of an offset page. There are more rubberstamped texts and less typewriter poetry in the first edition than the revised edition. The revised edition also has pages printed in red ink whereas the first edition does not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

THALAMUS & SOL (071264), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56381-9999796
Scope and Contents

This depicts a square of composed of two words in capital letters THALAMUS & SOL. Houedard has composed several poems using the neurologic structure, Thalamus, as their basis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
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 / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

Thanks, 2000

 Item — Box 134: [Barcode: 31858072457850]
Identifier: CC-44487-46637
Scope and Contents

The word THANKS is incised on the top surface of the orange paper weight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)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 Affair (b), 1969

 Item — Folder 78: [Barcode: 31858072538378]
Identifier: CC-61280-50412
Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Blue Sail, 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-42824-44864
Scope and Contents

This book is a selection of Finlay's poems over 40 years. -- 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) / BOOKS

The Book of Hours and Constellations, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-10206-10407
Scope and Contents

Edited by Jerome Rothenberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

The Book of Hours and Constellations, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-10207-10408
Scope and Contents

Edited by Jerome Rothenberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

The Books Lost to the Fire in the Library of Alexandria Revealed Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37358-39211
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 19. The shape of the poem appears to be a Greek temple with columns. The titles of the books listed in the poem are made-up raunch phrases, several well known in old and ancient jokes, e.g, "The Yellow River by I.P. Daily; The Aged Car by Denton Fender; The Random Jockstrap by Wun Hung Lo etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Cage, 1973

 Item — Folder 32: [Barcode: 31858072459914]
Identifier: CC-19778-20165
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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Henri Chopin

The Cement Fuck, 1966

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-07335-7479
Scope and Contents

The abstract expressionist cover was painted by maRa. A handwritten poem by levy appears on the back cover. This book contains all the stanzas of Chalchihuitlicue; the booklet of the same title (held by the Sackner Archive) only contains the first stanza. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
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 / L / levy, d.a. / 1966

The Chains, 1966

 Item — Folder 64: [Barcode: 31858072537982]
Identifier: CC-20364-20761
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Club Ha Ha Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37353-39205
Scope and Contents In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on pages 109 and 110. The shape is that of a deer with antlers perched upon an intricate goblet that might have been made adapted from Beatrice Ward's "The Crystal Goblet." Daniels describes his poems prints in a personal communication to Marvin Sackner as follows: "Its kind of like walking up to a painting and examining the brushstrokes. The fonts in giant form are"new" and "strange" in a way. Also they make a design of their own. Plus I raise and lower fonts to make curves. People see them as if they never saw them before. Good old Times Roman invented by the Romans to incise sharp shadows for readability on their stone cut signs and developed by The London Times in the 19th Century to acheive clarity while cramming words tight in columns has a new life! Some young people I met at Epoetry 2001 in Buffalo this Spring seem to see me as a kind of "hero" who has "figured out how to get people to read his poems hiding...
Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Collected Poems of Earle Birney: Volume I & Volume II , 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-22429-22853
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

The Cow Jumped over the Moon: The Writing and Reading of Poetry, 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-21115-21524
Scope and Contents

Most of this book is presented as an interview of Birney. The is one concrete poem example in this book dealing with autobiography and critical analysis of poetry. -- 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) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

the ear's pavilion, 1956

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-15853-16185
Scope and Contents

This is the same poem in red ink but pubished b&w in Williams' 'Anthology of Concrete Poetry' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1956
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized D

The Eiffel Tower, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13314-13615
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print from the sixties -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

The Fall of the Tower of Babel, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13290-13591
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print of the sixties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

The Fitzroy Poems, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-04672-4759
Scope and Contents

The poems for the most part are written in the Creole dialect of the Fitzroy region of Australia. Pi O's Christian name is Peter Oustabasides. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
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 Fool Still Looking at the Same Thing [1] , 1988

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-22703-23137
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES