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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:

fifty-two words, 2001

 Item — Box 151: [Barcode: 31858072458049]
Identifier: CC-39082-41021
Scope and Contents

The artist describes this book as follows. "The book consists of fifty-two pages, each with one word repeated and overlaid across the page. A symbol that represents a way of understating each word is cut out with colored papers laid under the cut-outs. Half of the pages contain a phrase related to both the word and symbol printed in a light grey. Cloth covered stiff leaf binding, laser printed text, cut pages, Japanese dyed paper." The book opens to a circular form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Found & Sound / Cobbing, Bob., 1993

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-20548-20945
Scope and Contents

This first edition consists of a reprinting of several previously published poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Found & Sound (Take Two) / Cobbing, Bob., 1994

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-20549-20946
Scope and Contents

This second edition consists of a reprinting of several previously published poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

greek litany (011265), 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08758-8933
Scope and Contents

The text deals with lesbian/gay love. Houedard mentions that he was ordained at the tomb of Napolean III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Hedgehogs Announce Annual Turnover / Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1967

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12406-12632
Scope and Contents

This is a duplicate print from Finlay's portfolio Headlines:Eavelines. The word, "turnover" in this copy are orange whereas the print in the portfolio is brown.The verso has the following inscription: "from Evalines / Headlines by I.H.F. and students at Bath Academy of Art Openings Press." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[ich], 1968

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Bis-Bu: [Barcode: 31858072491271]
Identifier: CC-57548-10000824

J'Attends l'Homme!, 1969

 Item — Folder 20: [Barcode: 31858072459799]
Identifier: CC-19775-20162
Scope and Contents

The text of this print consists of several repetitions of the word, joie (joy) with a single word, jois, placed near the bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

konkrete poesie - poesia concreta, 1960

 Item — Box 311: [Barcode: 31858072490760]
Identifier: CC-37727-39602
Scope and Contents

The publication date indicates May 1960 but in sequence order, the date should be 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Lament: a sound poem, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-28216-29384
Scope and Contents

Also designated Minibooks #3. First published by Ganglia Press May 3, 1969. Writers Forum published it December 31, 1969. Performed as a sound poem at UBC Gallery of Fine Arts in April 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Letter to Jacob Leed, re: publishing Tom Kryss' book: [im trying to hit everyone i know...], 1968

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07347-7491
Scope and Contents

levy asks Leed for a donation to print a book by Tom Kryss. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Life Cycles, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-34735-36441
Scope and Contents

The word "eat" is printed 19 times in a center column. On the top line, The letters "cr" and "ion" are added to form creation. In the middle of the column, "procr" and "ion" are added to spell procreation. At the bottom "d" and "h" are added to state death. Jacoby writes on the verso of the frame, "One definition of EAT: To corrode; waste or wear away. Life cycles are birth - sex - death. This poem is a combination of man's life cycles with the life process of wearing away." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970