Grumman, Bob, 1941-2015

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1941 February 2 - 2015 April 2

Nationality

American

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

An Impression Of The Contents Of Ruth And Marvin Sackner's Archive / Grumman, Bob., 1985

Item

Identifier: CC-60310-61100

Scope and Contents

Grumman made this one of two colllages after he visited the Sackner Artchive a day previously. In this collage, the letter 'P' ithat completes the word "POEM" s absent. The word 'POETRY" is mising the 'P' that is obscured by a chaoti colorful abstract dtawing and the 'Y'is abssetn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Fission / Kempton, Karl ; Grumman B ; cummings ee ; Patchen K ; Huth G., 1988

Item

Identifier: CC-32347-33914

Scope and Contents

Bob Grumman wrote the introduction in which he comments on the form of Kempton's poems whereby a word is split into two or more words by intervening spaces. He mentions that G. Huth designated this form as a severlation. These poems are printed one to a page, e.g., artifact = art if act, justice = just ice, herring = her ring, netherlands = net her lands, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)