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Found poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 115 Collections and/or Records:

Man?, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-06064-6178
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1968

Nailsworth Series: I Is for Improvement... , 1996

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Identifier: CC-13192-13493
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1996

No News, No. 30, 1994

 Item — Box 167: [Barcode: 31858072458213]
Identifier: CC-05698-5805
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1994

No One Goes Crazy Alone, 1991

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-23205-23644
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1991

[On Palm Sunday...], 1997

 Item — Box 212: [Barcode: 31858072459245]
Identifier: CC-39438-41393
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1997

Operation Manual, 1991

 Item — Box 283: [Barcode: 31858073143418]
Identifier: CC-02339-2379
Scope and Contents

This assemblage is a quasi-book object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Ow's Waif and other poems, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-38180-40075
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1975

Pages, 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-10652-10861
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1976

[Paper Strips], 1987

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21834-22245
Scope and Contents

Poem object consists of bag with cut-up paper text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Paste Book Number One: Can a Girl Make You?, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55002-55667
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1985

Paste Book Number One: Nothing And, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-54997-97866
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1985

[Paye], 1991

 Item — Folder 20: [Barcode: 31858072459799]
Identifier: CC-16204-16547
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1991

Philosophie de Cuisine, 1999

 Item — Box 269: [Barcode: 31858072460581]
Identifier: CC-35768-37525
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1999