Birney, Earle, 1904-1995
Dates
- Existence: 1904-05-13 - 1995-09-03
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Alaska Passage / Birney, Earle., 1967
This booklet was a component of Birney's "pnomes jukollages and other stunzas" (Gronk Series 4 No.3), a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Archive for Defying Linear Deification: Contemporary Toronto Visual Poetry and its Afterward 1 / curry, jw; Birney E; Nichol bp; UU D; Aylward D; Broudy H; Dutton P; McCaffery S; Truhlar R; Dean M; Amann E; Swede G; Shikatani G; Goluska G., 1987
curry traces the development of concrete and visual poetry in Toronto for an essay in Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly Vol.9 No.3-4, 1987, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. He lists Earle Birney's book entitled pnomes jukollages and other stunzas 1969, as the first concrete poetry by a main stream Canadian poet. He comments that bp Nichol's 1st book, Cycles etc., 7 Flowers Press, were chant structures that relied heavily on visual sonic similarities between words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Earthquakes & Explorations: Language and Painting from Cubism to Concrete Poetry / Scobie, Stephen ; Apollinaire G ; Arp H ; Ball H ; Bann S ; Birney E ; Bohn W ; Cage J ; Caruso B ; Cendrars B ; Delaunay S ; Drucker J ; Duchamp M ; Finlay IH ; Gomringer E ; Hausmann R ; Jandl E ; Joyce J ; Kostelanetz R ; Krauss R ; McCaffery S ; Malevich K ; Nichol bp ; Picabia F ; Pignatari D ; Poggi C ; Reverdy P ; Schwitters K ; Shattuck R ; Solt ME ; Stein G ; Steiner W ; Tzara T ; Derrida J ; Herbert G ; Bok C ; Werschler-Henry D ; Khlebnikov V ; bissett b ; Garnier P., 1997
Gronk: Pnomes, Jukollages and Other Stunzas. No.2 / Earle Birney ; Nichol bp ; Suknaski A., 1970
This work was designed by bp Nichol except for one piece by Andrew Suknaski. Two copies have the printed envelope intact, in another copy, the envelope is frayed, and in the remaining copy, the envelope is absent. The actual edition size was probably 300 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.