Found poetry
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 115 Collections and/or Records:
Man?, 1968
This collage profile of a stylized human body alludes to multiple physical malfunctions from "bald" to "cough" to "corns" clipped from newspaper ads. The figure is standing on a base which states "Under capitalism...medicine is a commodity and a business. Disease is a commodity of capitalism. Under capitalism, the businesses and institions of capitalism need disease as merchandise to do business with, to make money, to sell medicine. Fidel Castro - January 8, 1969." This poem was published in Mayer's "earmouth" 1972 and in Delo, 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Movies! (1977-1979), 1981
Nailsworth Series: I Is for Improvement... , 1996
This print is completely textural and relates to the British poet, William Davies, who lived in the town of Nailsworth. Each line of text begins with the letter I, e.g. I is for Implements In May, I am the Poet Davies, William In Neath Valley, etc. This is stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
NEUBERG ED 912 Posters (dEDsign, No. 8): Fiat Lux, 1967
No News, No. 30, 1994
This work includes instructions to perform this piece by Ay-O. The reader must first find the one signed box and then use it as the starting point for the No News sculpture. The remaining unfolded boxes (for various commmercial products) are then unfolded and placed at the reader's discretion. The box containg the works is a commercial dental wax box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
No One Goes Crazy Alone, 1991
The poem was made by linking headlines from the New York Times which are pasted onto a white ribbon to form a scroll. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[On Palm Sunday...], 1997
Dyar writes on the label, "On Palm Sunday 1996 I picked up this palm branch at Saint Dominic's Church. It hung for one year on the wall in my studio & on Palm Sunday 1997 it was burned down to these ashes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Operation Manual, 1991
This assemblage is a quasi-book object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Ow's Waif and other poems, 1975
The poems were composed from found texts that were altered by McCaffery as a result of chance operations. The colored concrete poems on several pages scattered throughout the book that employ large and varied typefaces were designed by Robert MacDonald. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Pages, 1976
Gibbs took pages from other books in several languages and bound them in part or as a whole into this book. The pages are numbered sequentially and are unrelated by theme. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Paper Strips], 1987
Poem object consists of bag with cut-up paper text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Paste Book Number One: Can a Girl Make You?, 1985
The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Paste Book Number One: Nothing And, 1985
The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Paye], 1991
Print was made using the visual components of the poster from an exhibition at Galerie Annie Lagier with Burka and de Charmoy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Per the Nameless Boom] , 1988
Philosophie de Cuisine, 1999
The text on the cloth that is printed in red with varied typefaces, deals with food and cooking. The cloth is folded into the jar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
