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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1101 Collections and/or Records:

words worth while works, 1997

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-33133-34759
Scope and Contents

The poems were written between 1969 and 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

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

Xerolage, No. 37: Assassin, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44338-46487
Scope and Contents

Each page reproduces a single concrete poem. The Sackner Archive also holds the manuscript for this work which has 40 pages of poems. Twenty-six poems were used for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

[Xerox Poems], 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

XXx nOnOnO, 2008

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-49172-70212
Scope and Contents

One of the images in this catalogue depicts a detail of a drawing [nononox] held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

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 Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
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

Ying-Yang Cube, 1968

 Item — Folder 77: [Barcode: 31858072538360]
Identifier: CC-55695-9999281
Scope and Contents

This iks the lay-out for assembling the poem in its cubic shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

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-07135-7275
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. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

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

zimprovisaties, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-15301-15624
Scope and Contents

This edition of early works by Paul De Vree features concrete poetry mainly achieved by typewriting. The piece dedicated to Paul-Armand Gette of an anti-vietnam war poemis constructed as analogous ro a Gette sculprure built with lettered woodblocks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968