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Acconci, Vito, 1940-2017

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1940-01-24 - 2017-04-27

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Book: Transference: Roget's Thesaurus / Acconci, Vito., 1968

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Identifier: CC-26620-27090
Scope and Contents

Composed from the first 35 pages of Roget's Thesaurus by printing the first one to two letters of the words on the right and left sided margins on either the right or left sided margin of this new book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Four Book / Acconci, Vito., 1968

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Identifier: CC-26619-27089
Scope and Contents This book consists of four major sections. The first is a repetitious short prose piece that reads, "The top is, originally, a tuft of hair, or the hair of the head. The top is the head, or the crown of the head...." This is repeated on the next nine pages with minor modifications to the dense of the piece. The second section consists of one to three photocopied columns of the NYC telephone white pages with a list of brief typewritten comments, one to a page. For example, these phrases include "rank, from the waist up, Beside the lamp, By now, Helen and Charles, hand in hand, David's arm,"etc. There does not appear to be a direct relationship between the lists from the telephone book and Acconci's list. The third section consists of two line poems, placed with a line drawing of a rectangle with content as follows, e.g., "I go where--we go off, He goes back to where--those go back on him." The fourth section consists of brief alternating single lines of dialog. -- Source of...
Dates: 1968

Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci edited by Craig Dworkin / Acconci, Vito ; Dworkin C ; Goldsmith K., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46350-49075
Scope and Contents

This collection of Acconci's poems is edited by Craig Dworkin who contributed an introduction titled "Delay in Verse." He writes that reframing text from the New York Times and the New York City weather report respectively, Goldsmith's books 'Day' and 'The Weather' were written with complete lack of knowledge of Acconci's own newspaper and weather forecast poems from thirty-five years earlier, despite the striking and uncanny resemblance of those subsequent precedents. The books by Goldsmith are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006