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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 485 Collections and/or Records:

Covent Garden Broadsheet: Beethoven Today. No.1, 1971

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-18728-19102
Scope and Contents

Designated Broadsheet No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Cried and Measured, 1977

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-38316-40213
Scope and Contents

The poems are based on lists of names in the Aramaic writings of the Jews of Elephantine, Egypt. There is also an essay about the Elephantine Jews, an island in the Nile river at Egypt's southern border who lived in that place in the fifth century B.C. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

d.a. levy's " destructive writing" and the Instant of Communication, 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-29886-31273
Scope and Contents

Swanberg (aka Markhardt) analyzes levy's poem, "Selected Writings" of 1967, "in which no images appear and in which the words and lines bleed with a superabundance of black mimeo ink ringed by a faint aura of oil...The poem's destructive writing is a putting to death of words. Its realm is without mastery, without time. It is the instant of a complete spending, in which words are sacrificed and the poem IS." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

DEI GENITRIX (060963), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57860-10001110
Scope and Contents

A long column on the right side of the page consists of varied shades of m's with three balnk spaces in the column. The title is typed in the bottom left corner of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Dermatic Optical Perception (11/09/64), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55451-58828
Scope and Contents

This pamphlet (folded sheet) is included in Revue Ou No.22, 1964, a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

e colony / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-49971-71030
Scope and Contents

All the large calligraphic markings are formed from the letter "e." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Eat - Fat, 1992

 Item — Box 296: [Barcode: 31858072460755]
Identifier: CC-00789-808
Scope and Contents

The work consists of two large painted letters, "A" & "T." The third Letter, an "F" can be converted to an "E" by adding a fourth piece, a bar to the "F." In that way, the sculpture can be read as EAT or FAT. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[ecart] (120763) / giocester (200863) / maximus (160963) / whatcowhat (160963), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57867-10001119
Scope and Contents

This typing consists of four poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

eé (and it is), 1967

 Item — Box 309: [Barcode: 31858073143632]
Identifier: CC-52480-73607
Scope and Contents

This is also designated No.2 of the series "fonemi plastici 1967." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967