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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 365 Collections and/or Records:

Les Couvertures de la Lettre, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-07541-7685
Scope and Contents

Pages reproduce covers for periodicals designed by Lemaitre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Les livres et las publications: catalogue raisonne, 2005

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Identifier: CC-44152-46278
Scope and Contents

This book lists and depicts among other works all covers of issues of the eschenau summer press through 2005. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Les Portes Ouvertes Ouvertement, 2001

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Identifier: CC-40232-42203
Scope and Contents

This book deals with Chopin's diary notes on the making of his sound poems. He mentions meeting the Sackners on his visit to Miami Beach in 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Lessness, 2002

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Identifier: CC-40958-42937
Scope and Contents

This book is designed, hand set and hand printed by John Crombie. The text by Beckett was first printed in 1970. This edition was printed on Kickshaw's Golding Press in a cloverleaf presentation. Stored with Crombie publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Let Let: Im Flug der Jahre, 1994

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Identifier: CC-31829-33347
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a diary dealing with poetic and political events taking place in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War beginning in 1952 and ending in 1968. It records the author's observations as well as letters and quotes from newspapers and periodicals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Let The Mice In, 1973

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Identifier: CC-51251-72339
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Jan Herman. Gysin documents the making of cut-ups and his "Dream Machine" in this book. Also, this book includes three labels from the exhibition "Beyond Geometry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Letrizem, 2000

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Identifier: CC-37094-38936
Scope and Contents

Francesco Conz contributes an afterward "Lettrisme: The Forgotten Avant Garde." Roland Sabatier wrote about Isou's novel "Initiation a la Haute Volupte" (Initiation inot High Sensual Pleasure) and also contributed an essay "Poetry and Music:From Lettrisme to Excordism through Aphonism and the Infinitesimal." The fabric prints of Isou published by Conz, that are reproduced in this book, are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

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 for submissions to A, second issue], 1973

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-29387-30752
Scope and Contents

This letter requests submissions for the second issue (AB) of A magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

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

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: depression: [dont be depressed...], 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-33539-35189
Scope and Contents

The poem within this letter deals with Dagmar and levy's ambivalence toward her as his muse. It is undated but most of the correspondence to bill wyatt took place in March of 1967. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Bill Wyatt, re: MQ (vol. 2, no. 4): [we just started on the next MQ (vol 2 #4)] and Light On, The Old Test, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-60915-56224
Scope and Contents

The mailing envelope (dated May 12, 1967) to BILL WYATT + chris Torrance has a label on its left upper corner that reads "SMUT DOES NOT MELT IN YOUR HANDS." The recto of the letter to BIll Wyatt closes with "the best Way to fry yr enemies is to pray for their enlightenment." The verso of this letter deals with comments on the Assyrian Kings. levy ends his diatribe as follows. "SHAZAM" - this is turning into one of ed sander's' mongolian cluster fucks! forget the light / im turning on with the "Old ASS"/yrs KHU-ED-OHO GUARDIAN of the royal cisttern/d.a. levy bh -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967