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Visual poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 822 Collections and/or Records:

Perfumer's Workshop, 1995

 Item — Box 67: [Barcode: 31858072538485]
Identifier: CC-37214-39058
Scope and Contents

The opened jars appear to have a fragrance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Photographs / Kitasono, Katue., 2009

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Identifier: CC-54035-642998
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Kitasano was one of the most important Japanese Avant Garde poets of the 20th century. He was born in 1902 and died in 1978. It was right in the middle of the century that his creativity unfolded during the fifty years before and after WWII. His work entailed announcements of the production of his poems and photos, critical essays, the binding and editing of books and magazines. In 1966 Kitasono published the work Plastic Poem which was first published in English as A Note on Plastic Poetry in VOU (Revue de la Poesie Experimentale). This book shows many examples of his published plastic poems many of them published in the sixties and seventies in the magazine VOU. Contains many photographs in b/w and reproductions in color.The Sackner Archive holds the following issues of Vou depiicted as covers in this book: 85, 106, 108, 109, 112 and 114. The Sackner Archive holds the photograph depicted on page 113 of this book (it also appeared in Vou No.106), photograph on page 114...
Dates: 2009

Physical Language Laboratory, No. 3: Specimen/Kaddish, 1997

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-28027-29181
Scope and Contents

The poem object is a black egg placed in the bottom center of an acrylic jar. The title, Kaddish, is the Jewish prayer of mourning. At the base of the egg, a line of poetry by Walt Whitman is set in a spiral line. It reads,"All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." The box is printed with the quote from an unidentified person, "...when she put out all her eyes from grief, they did not turn to fire but fell to earth as eggs..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Piecemeal Part Eight, 1989

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-21688-22099
Scope and Contents

Concluding essay by Harry Polkinhorn on Guy Beining's eight books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Piecemeal Part Four, 1989

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-21551-21962
Scope and Contents

Cover design by Bob Grumman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Piecemeal Part One, 1988

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-22912-23348
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Harry Polkinhorn. Cover design by Bob Grumman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Pl / Aguiar, Fernando., 1992

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-61615-10004075
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992