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Visual poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 822 Collections and/or Records:

The Intervalist's Chair , 1985

 Item — Box 311: [Barcode: 31858072490760]
Identifier: CC-27107-27581
Scope and Contents

A chair reproduced on the cover has an appearance similar to the chairs made by the Lettrist artist, Alain Satie. The publication also may have been intended as the second issue of Mirror Magnetik Interval. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Journal of the Paumonock Traveller, 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-19629-20015
Scope and Contents

Five of the book covers have handcolored painted and/or collage additions. Two of the books have string spines.Sixteen items are listed on the table of contents label.l -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Juggler, 1995

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]
Identifier: CC-24118-24570
Scope and Contents

The central image is a skeletal, rubberstamped figure who juggles 5 rubberstamped spherical objects, perhaps key locks to a room. The figure stands on 2 mounds of letraset letters. A relief object collaged to the upper left corner consists of handwritten cancelled numbers on top of letraset letters with a paper fragment of blue sky and a cloud. The image may be a metaphor for Baroni's questioning his art, music, or hotel careers. This is one of a series of 8 Unrelated Pieces for the Sackn -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Marvels of Professor Pettingruel, 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-38292-40188
Scope and Contents

Peter Koch illustrated this surrelistic novel with six visual poetic images and Shelly Hoyt made the binding. Nations drew two small boxes next to his signature, one designated yes, the other no; the yes box is checked. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Marvels of Professor Pettingruel, 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-32699-34285
Scope and Contents

Peter Koch illustrated this surrelistic novel with six visual poetic images and Shelly Hoyt made the binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Moralist, 2002

 Item — Box 84: [Barcode: 31858072538238]
Identifier: CC-39074-41012
Scope and Contents

This work features ambiguities related to censorship. The label of two cigarette packs, "Lucky Strike" is cancelled to leave only "Lust." The cancelling device is a large block of wood with black paint at its tip that serves as phallic symbol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Observer, 2000

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-34305-36000

The Only Good Luddite Is a Dead Luddite , 1963

 Item — Folder 58: [Barcode: 31858072537925]
Identifier: CC-13229-13530
Scope and Contents

Luddites were bands of workers in England (1811-1816) organized to destroy machinery under the belief that its use diminished employment. Ned Luddite, an 18th century Leicestershire worker originated the idea. Furnival depicts a man's body flattened by a Rube Goldberg like machine with numbers streaming from upper pipes of the machine. Stored in Odds & Sods. Depictd in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011 page 138. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

The Parchment Is Burning , 1985

 Item — Folder 68: [Barcode: 31858072538022]
Identifier: CC-25655-26113
Scope and Contents

The full title of this print, a quote from Rabbi Hanina Ben Tradyon, is "The Parchment is Burning but the Letters are Flying Free." It depicts Hebrew letters arranged randomly above a collaged, burnt surface of paper at the bottom of the print. Tradyon was an ancient Talmudic scholar who was executed for his beliefs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Poet Considers His Resources, 1979

 Item — Folder 63: [Barcode: 31858072537974]
Identifier: CC-22278-22700
Scope and Contents

Poem by R. Bradbury. Designed and printed by R. Bigus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Riddle of the Sands , 1990

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-54459-123465
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, "The cliche kiss, engraved upon the air - a rain of rice when wrong boys finger the yellow sand; - Two that look then burst the loaded bus" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Sinner and God's [Hand], 1980

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-21332-21743
Scope and Contents

The second of three of H. Bellaert's "n-books," all of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Smallest Flower of the World, 1987

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Be-Bir: [Barcode: 31858072491172]
Identifier: CC-21528-21939

The Space Below This Printing Is For Future Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren, Great Great Grandchildren..., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-33364-35003
Scope and Contents

The drawing lists the names of the Sackners' children and grandchildren in 1991. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Squadron, 1968

 Item — Folder 69: [Barcode: 31858072538030]
Identifier: CC-16014-16355
Scope and Contents

The poem consists of nine horizontally placed black colored hearts that simulate a group of flying airplanes. Their black color rather than conventional red is an anti-war protest (Vietnam). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Terrific Days of Summer, 1998

 Item — Folder 5: [Barcode: 31858072459435]
Identifier: CC-30398-31817
Scope and Contents

This is a prospectus for a new book by the press with supplemental information by one of its proprietors in a letter to the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Tibetan Stroboscope, 1968

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-07407-7551
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of the book of the same title on white paper stock printed in red ink. Original copies are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968