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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:

(soma) light song / Cobbing, Bob., 1981

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17527-17893
Scope and Contents

soma signifies 'society of mental awareness. It was instrumental in overturning the harsh penal penalty for possession of hashish in England in the 1970s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Songsignals, 1971

 Item — Box 633: [Barcode: 31858072464732]
Identifier: CC-17539-17905
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter Finch. This is issue No.1 of Second Aeon Folder series; the second and final number, J.P. Wards's "From Alphabet to Logos," is also held by the Sackner Archive. In the introduction, Cobbing describes how he altered the found poems in this work to their final form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Ta-A-Ti (Original and 4 Performance Sheets) / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17570-17936
Scope and Contents

Consists of original collage made from colored papers and four black & white prints made from the collage by a photocopier technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Telegrams from My Windmill / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-11679-11897
Scope and Contents

This is Finlay's first book of concrete poetry based upon a typed layout. Sixtenn poems are printed in red color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[Tile Collage], 1996

 Item — Box 284: [Barcode: 31858073143426]
Identifier: CC-27547-28616
Scope and Contents

Barbera was a student in the New World School of the Arts in Miami and was inspired to make this collage when she saw the exhibition "Visual Hothouse" in the Centre Gallery MDCC, that was on loan from the Sackner collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Topics, 1978

 Item — Box 630: [Barcode: 31858072464708]
Identifier: CC-23978-24428
Scope and Contents

The inscription on the envelope stating that the work is unpublished was written by Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Twisting Silence , 1991

 Item — Box 322: [Barcode: 31858072490885]
Identifier: CC-23541-23986
Scope and Contents

This book commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition was created utilizing a trade edition book as a support structure. Barron composed poems and utilized poems from other poets along with found text. She placed them in the layers of the book, e.g.,"Twisting silence into words, my shrouded shadow sucked deep of a breath of emptiness, to shriek into its own ear," (S.B.) "what have you done to the garden that was entrusted to you?" (A. Machado) and "Breathe in a mouthful of dust..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Vision Not Revision, 1999

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-33026-34648
Scope and Contents

The box was made by sloy's husband, Nicholas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Vispo for Eric / Cobbing, Bob ; Mottram E., 1997

 Item — Box 393: [Barcode: 31858072461571]
Identifier: CC-31681-33188
Scope and Contents

These poems were performed to honor Eric Mottram's 70th birthday on December 29, 1994; Mottram died on January 16, 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[World unborn], 1990

 Item — Box 163: [Barcode: 31858072458171]
Identifier: CC-05648-5755
Scope and Contents

This sculpture provides a visual/verbal vignette of the fragility of the first breath of life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990