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Visual poetry

 Subject

Staff Only

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

[Bridge] , 1994

 Item — Folder 49: [Barcode: 31858072537834]
Identifier: CC-16147-16490
Scope and Contents

The top half of this print is a photograph of a bridge over a body of water. The bottom half is the same scene rendered in the repeated words brisa (breeze), abatido (downcast), abismo (abyss), abajo (under), barato (cheap), alejar (move away) - themes related to suicide. The calligraphic text is rendered by computer typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

[Halo Hell-o] , 1994

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-16144-16487
Scope and Contents

Poetic lines trace the silhouette of a woman's face. The eyebrow says insoporatble pesar (insupportable grief); the eye, madre erecta; the lips, watch out people for hell is coming back. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

[Portrait of a Woman] , 1995

 Item — Folder 69: [Barcode: 31858072538030]
Identifier: CC-16171-16514
Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES