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Performance poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 81 Collections and/or Records:

Collected Poems Volume Four: The Kollekted Kris Kringle / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17349-17713
Scope and Contents

This book includes poetry and performance notes which document several published works by Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Collected Poems Volume Seven: Vowels & Consequences / Cobbing, Bob ; Griffiths B., 1985

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17350-17714
Scope and Contents

Bill Griffiths' introductory essay explains how Cobbing has used the duplicator, ink, stencils and over-printing to create texts of shapes and textures. They "move away from word and letter as conventional symbols...into a new semantics of shape. The works in this book date from 1970 to 1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Collected Poems Volume Two: Wan A Do B Tree C / Cobbing, Bob., 1978

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-28763-30070
Scope and Contents

This book incorporates all the material in the two publications, Sound Poems (An A B C in Sound), January 1995, and Kurrirrurriri, November 1967. It consists largely of sound poems though some are written in expressive visual format. The earliest poem in the book, 'Worm' was written in 1954 but did not achieve its final version until 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Cylinder Head / Pike, Jennifer ; Cobbing, Bob., 1997

 Item — Box 390: [Barcode: 31858072461548]
Identifier: CC-31685-33192
Scope and Contents

Fifteen variations each by Pike and Cobbing on the theme of Cylinder Head are included. The first and last were dedicated and performed at Subvoicive on December 9, 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

DEUX POEMES DE BRETON & HOUEDARD (230964), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56372-59679
Scope and Contents

The poem is typed in blue ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Free Form Poetry Two / Cobbing, Bob, editor ; MacBeth, George, editor ; Houedard DS ; Mayrocker F., 1971

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17520-17886
Scope and Contents

Designated as pamphlet eight. Includes a printing of a portion of Houesard's 'from the cosmic typewriter - a somantric diversion (201163), -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Ghosts Live in Closed Eyes , 2008

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-49378-70423
Scope and Contents

This work is also designated as Card 26 from "Stories from the Flats." Tom Kryss conributed the envelope and cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Killing the Books: An Action 1971-2, 1972

 Item — Box 66: [Barcode: 31858072538493]
Identifier: CC-33342-34980
Scope and Contents

The handwritten statement on cardboard collaged to the back of the frame reads, The books are killed - by shooting - by burning - by drowning - by cutting - by gluing - painting white, or red, or black, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

La Testa di Giano, 1981

 Item — Box 326: [Barcode: 31858073143574]
Identifier: CC-22973-23410
Scope and Contents

Tape Cassette is a program broadcasted on Italian National Radio 1 on April 3, 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

last full word (210964), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56370-59677
Scope and Contents

The full title is "last full word in small type on each of 1st 10 pp of webster.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964