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Conventional poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 306 Collections and/or Records:

scars on th seehors / bissett, bill., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33924-35596
Scope and Contents

bissett made a line drawing on the title page for the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

SCHWARZ ED 912 Posters (No Series, No. 1): No Man's Land, 1967

 Item — Folder 27: [Barcode: 31858072459864]
Identifier: CC-14187-14493
Scope and Contents

Arturo Schwarz, an Egyptian Jew, published the later works of Marcel Duchamp and was one of the great collectors of Surrealist and Dada books; this collection was donated to the Isreal Museum in Jerusalem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Scratching Face, 2010

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-51408-72503
Scope and Contents

Jake Berry desscribes this book as prose poems. The colored cover drawing of a scratched face is by Rich Curtis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror , 1983

 Item — Folder 63: [Barcode: 31858072537974]
Identifier: CC-25646-26104
Scope and Contents

This bookwork is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Stardust, 1975

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Identifier: CC-22163-22585
Scope and Contents

Stardust refers to photographs. Poems relate to movie stars reproduced in book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Stitchin' Time: A Winter Patchwork, 1982

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Identifier: CC-25678-26138
Scope and Contents

The prints are stylized realistic images made to commemorate the 1981 Winter Solstice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Stoma, 1984

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-30591-32029
Scope and Contents

Leslie Wayne did the cover drawing and Les Kanturek the interior illustrations. The book was done as a printing project of the New School at Red Ozier Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962-2007, 2008

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Identifier: CC-49491-70537
Scope and Contents Marcus Boon, who edited this book writes, Giorno's late-1960s poems see him expanding the use of found materials, including pornographic and countercultural texts, as well as the use of repetition. Indeed, poems like "Capsule," "Give It to Me, Baby," and "Johnny Guitar" are among the most rock 'n' roll poems ever written, every bit as psychedelic and confrontational as The Stooges or Jefferson Airplane, and probably just as much the product of a wide-ranging armory of pharmaceuticals, which, as Giorno has repeatedly insisted, have the potential to open and expand the mind and bring bliss. Balling Buddha, a multicolor confection printed on pages in the six colors of the rainbow, rather than traditional black on white, introduced Giorno's signature split lines running down the center of each page-as a way of both reproducing the multitracking used in his sound poems and perturbing the linear flow of text on the page. Giorno observes that the split line "breaks the lineal flow....
Dates: 2008