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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 182 Collections and/or Records:

Interview with Bob Cobbing at Warwick University / Cobbing, Bob; Dennis, Helen; Musgrove, Keith., 1980

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17597-17964
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of an interview that appeared in Angel Exhaust No.4. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Kibbutz In The Sky, Book I, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60427-56221
Scope and Contents

In the letter to billl wyatt on the cover, levy muses about a third part of the poem (only two parts were published) in which he plans "i think will be a defense of the county sherriffs (sic) office - they were pretty good to me considering all the lip i gave them - was on radio & T.V." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Konkrete Dichtung Konkrete Kunst '68, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-54133-65246
Scope and Contents

This is a heavily annotated copy of this symposium by SJ Schmidt (?). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Kwatz / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17464-17830
Scope and Contents

Cobbing writes that the twelve poems in this series "have a unity on the edge of poetry and graphic art; further, typewriter camera letraset drawn letter and duplicator techniques combine to say kwatz!" (a Chinese-Zen meaningless word). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

La Maronne/Ronde Brève, 1996

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-27532-28598
Scope and Contents

The poem object consist of two silkscreened prints depicting experimental music scores wrapped several times around a stiff printed card. The folders insert within a bent open plexiglas frame; the abstract plaster sculpture is sited on the forward bend of the plexiglas frame. The plastic circular poem object with white painted handwriting is mounted on an opened folder on the back of the book object. The sound poem was recorded on the tape casette by Serge Pey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

L'arte va all'attacco, 1995

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-28869-30191
Scope and Contents

The background for the collage is a photocopied newspaper article that describes Baroni's mail art activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Le Lapin Vivant; Carotte and Roll, 1991

 Item — Box unknown: [Barcode: 31858073143673]
Identifier: CC-09281-9463
Scope and Contents

This box and its contents represent documentation for an installation in galerie AB, Paris, January 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Letter exchange with Bill Wyatt, re: eating meat: [jesus & buddha sed something...], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60898-10003758
Scope and Contents

Wyatt wrote the Haiku regarding eating animal meat anf levy responded as follows. "It isn't what goes in yr mouth thats imortant, it is what comes out of yr mouth." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter exchange with Jacob Leed, re: Leed's poems: [i feel somewhat swift & merciless...], 1965

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07342-7486
Scope and Contents

Leed writes that he is sending poems to levy from those he sent for an issue of Wormwood. levy writes that he is returning most of them and keeping a few for an anthology that he wants to edit rather than seeing them publishing them in Wormwood. He also mentions starting 7 Flowers Press and the Ohio City Series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Letter exchange with Jacob Leed, re: poem request: [you will have to order them thru Jim...], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07341-7485
Scope and Contents

Leed requests copies of his book, Poems, but levy replies that he must order them from Jim Lowell. levy also mentions that he is going to New York for a poetry reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter exchange with Will Inman, re: kauri: [would like to send you this poem...], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07641-7786
Scope and Contents

levy describes a poet friend (RD) who is the only white man living and trying to make a difference in a black Cleveland neighborhood. He also doesn't want Inman to list his address in kauri (Inman's magazine) because he wants to be left alone to work. Inman writes back that he respects RD's intentions but rejects the poem because of its quality. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter exchange with Will Inman, re: self-loathing and drugs: [of course im egocentric...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60902-10003761
Scope and Contents

This letter is about levy's self-pitying, depressive state of mind regarding the events surrounding him such as the Vietnam war and the assult on drugs. levy also castigates Inman for his anti-drug stand. According to the envelope, this letter was mailed March 8, 1967. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter from Jacob Leed, re: publishing: [As for biographical stuff...], 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07343-7487
Scope and Contents

Leed discusses his ideas for issues of The Polluted Lake Series. Stored in d.a. levy binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Letter from Kay Wood to Bill Wyatt, re: d.a. levy's indictment: [Merci, beaucoup - some may be of use...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48441-69469
Scope and Contents

This letter deals with levy's upcomng hearing on an obscenity charge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter from Will Inman, re: thoughts and responses: [Thanks for your letter...], 1965

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60716-10003571
Scope and Contents

This letter is stored in levy binder.Thanks levy for sending him artwork which he has framed and hanged. Asks the question, 'What is dexamyl?" Inman comments on Irving Fiske, "a pompous tub of shit." [Wikipedia: Irving Fiske (March 5, 1908 "“ April 25, 1990) born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker. He is associated with Quarry Hill Creative Center, the Fiske family property, in Rochester, Vermont]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Letter to Barry McCallion / Cobbing, Bob., 9 January 1971

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-19948-20336
Scope and Contents

Thanks McCallion him for sending work and states that he looks forward to meeting him at the Cardiff Conference. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 9 January 1971

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: American food: [now eating sunday dinners...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60901-56230
Scope and Contents

levy laments about food coloring in the United States particularly with regard to cooking hamburgers and closes with the following. We need a poet Kibbutz - KAPOTS KAPOTE KA KA KABOOM. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967