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The Stripteaser / Girodias, Maurice, editor ; Miller H ; DeSade DAF ; Bataille G., 1953

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Identifier: CC-51381-72473

Scope and Contents This promotional book reprints translated excerpts five books of the press including Geoge Bataille's "Tale of Satisfied Desire " (under the pseudonym of Pierre Angelique). This book is replete with b&w photographs of female nudes. Wikepedia states: "Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebadged version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane. It published a mix of erotic novels and avant-garde literary works, and is best known for the first print of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. 94 Olympia Press publications were promoted and packaged as "Traveller's Companion" books, usually with simple text-only covers, and each book in the series was numbered. The "Ophelia Press" line of erotica was far larger, using the same design, but pink covers instead of green. Olympia Press was also the first publisher willing to print the controversial William S. Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch. Other notable works included J. P....

Dates: 1953

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

The Teaser Pure and Simple / Girodias, Maurice, editor ; Desmond R., 1953

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Identifier: CC-51382-72474

Scope and Contents This promotional book reprints excerpts of books from the press and is replete with b&w photographs of female nudes. Wikepedia states: "Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebadged version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane. It published a mix of erotic novels and avant-garde literary works, and is best known for the first print of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. 94 Olympia Press publications were promoted and packaged as "Traveller's Companion" books, usually with simple text-only covers, and each book in the series was numbered. The "Ophelia Press" line of erotica was far larger, using the same design, but pink covers instead of green. Olympia Press was also the first publisher willing to print the controversial William S. Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch. Other notable works included J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man; the French trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett; A Tale of...

Dates: 1953

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

The Unfortunates / Johnson, B.S.., 1969

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Identifier: CC-32501-34078

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This novel consists of a first and last section, four and six pages in length, respectively. The other sections range from one to 12 pages in length. The reader is instructed to read the first and last sections of the book in their order while reading the other 25 sections in random order. The story revolves around a football reporter who visits a city and regains lost memories of the time he spent there many years before with a friend and his wife. Insofar as the page layout, Johnson utilizes wide spacing between words for paragraphs or dashes. Marc Saporta also published a novel, "Composition No.1," (1963) translated from the French in the same format as this book, unbound pages meant to be read in any order. Saporta's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Three the Hard Way / Bright, Susie, editor ; Harrison W ; Boyd G ; Litzky T., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42927-44970

Scope and Contents Susie Bright in her introduction writes: "Get in, get out, don't linger. It sounds like a pornographic maxim, but it's actually Raymond Carver's axiom about how to craft the perfect short story. Erotic literature, in our lifetimes, has usually fit his bill. It's short, all right. Sexy stories have typically been told in punch lines, bawdy tales, quickies from a raconteur. I've seen erotic anthologies that proposed to tell a story in under a hundred words, then under fifty. Erotic storytellers have beaten the devil, then the censor, and finally the clock. There's an untold parable behind the quick and the hot. Sexual writing has suffered under a lot of shame, and that's made it difficult to thrive. In a great deal of America's publishing history, you had to be a beatnik or a pornographer to get your hands on any form of erotica, whether crude or existential. A couple decades ago, when commercial literary publishers began to produce erotic volumes of their own, they did so with two...

Dates: 2004

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

TransGravity Advertiser: Mist. No.2 / Opal Nations., 1971

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Identifier: CC-60447-64323

Dates: 1971

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

TransGravity Advertiser: Wind. No.6 / John Robinson., 1971

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Identifier: CC-60450-64326

Dates: 1971

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Typornography: Adult Adventures in Typographic Treatment / Creative Activty Design Company., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33782-35447

Dates: 1999

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

[Untitled] / Blaine, Julien ; Heidsieck, Bernard ; Lebel, Jean-Jacques ; Allenor Saint-Macary, curator ; Bory JF ; Gette PA ; Janicot F., 2008

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Identifier: CC-54021-642992

Dates: 2008

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Vanitas / Tillier, Thierry., 2003

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Identifier: CC-52783-73920

Dates: 2003

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Vogue Devine / Davenport, Philip; Sayers, Phil., 2002

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Identifier: CC-51295-72384

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This set of cards documents an event that took place at the Manchester Poetry Festival. In a 2002 brochure the following was stated, 'Writer Philip Davenport and artist Phil Sayers have made a series of poster poems. This is an around the city exhibition. At first glance simply fashion posters, the young "female" model is actually a 56 year old man in drag; the words are a poem, not a sales pitch... made by cutting up articles from fashion magazines... Davenport's previous Imaginary Missing People (published Writers Forum 1999) several hundred missing person poster poems bill-posted in Manchester, London, Brighton. Phil Sayers has been an artist since the 1970s, exhibiting nationally and internationally. His work questions gender, celebrates transvestism.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

what dyou mean poetrys like bed? (231161) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1961

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Identifier: CC-57851-10001102

Scope and Contents This is a great poem about the far reaching impact of poetry.nThe Aramaic words 'maran atha' are written towars the end of the poem followed by the repeated phrase 'god come. Wikpedia: 'If one chooses to split the two words as ×ž×¨× × ×ª× (maranâ thâ), a vocative concept with an imperative verb, then it can be translated as a command to the Lord to come. On the other hand, if one decides that the two words ×ž×¨×Ÿ ××ª× (maran 'athâ), a possessive "Our Lord" and a perfect/preterite verb "has come," are actually more warranted, then it would be seen as a credal expression. This interpretation, "Our Lord has come," is supported by what appears to be an equivalent of this in the early credal acclamation found in the biblical books of Romans 10:9 and 1 Corinthians 12:3, "Jesus is Lord." In general, the recent interpretation has been to select the command option ("Come, Lord!"), changing older decisions to follow the preterite option ("Our Lord has come") as found in the ancient...

Dates: 1961

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

When Islam was sensual / Amer, Ghada., 2001

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Identifier: CC-43975-46086

Dates: 2001

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Why Don't We Do It In The Bed? / Kupferberg, Tuli., 1982

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Identifier: CC-44088-46206

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Stored in Yeah magazine box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Wild Girls Redox: Operator's Manual / Knudson, Ellen., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50819-71897

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This book provides images of Wild Girl behavior with text from the Missouri Department of Revenue Motorcycle Operator Manual. This book was awarded the Bienes Prize for Artist Books, Fort Lauderdale Public Library. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

XXXX 5 (An Extract of XXXX I - 9) / Buck, Paul ; Antin D ; Kelly R ; Noel B., 1980

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Identifier: CC-21933-22345

Dates: 1980

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Zone 5 / Zonailo, Carolyn., 1978

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Identifier: CC-30653-32093

Dates: 1978

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

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The Stripteaser / Girodias, Maurice, editor ; Miller H ; DeSade DAF ; Bataille G., 1953

The Teaser Pure and Simple / Girodias, Maurice, editor ; Desmond R., 1953

The Unfortunates / Johnson, B.S.., 1969

Three the Hard Way / Bright, Susie, editor ; Harrison W ; Boyd G ; Litzky T., 2004

TransGravity Advertiser: Mist. No.2 / Opal Nations., 1971

TransGravity Advertiser: Wind. No.6 / John Robinson., 1971

Typornography: Adult Adventures in Typographic Treatment / Creative Activty Design Company., 1999

[Untitled] / Blaine, Julien ; Heidsieck, Bernard ; Lebel, Jean-Jacques ; Allenor Saint-Macary, curator ; Bory JF ; Gette PA ; Janicot F., 2008

Vanitas / Tillier, Thierry., 2003

Vogue Devine / Davenport, Philip; Sayers, Phil., 2002

what dyou mean poetrys like bed? (231161) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1961

When Islam was sensual / Amer, Ghada., 2001

Why Don't We Do It In The Bed? / Kupferberg, Tuli., 1982

Wild Girls Redox: Operator's Manual / Knudson, Ellen., 2009

XXXX 5 (An Extract of XXXX I - 9) / Buck, Paul ; Antin D ; Kelly R ; Noel B., 1980

Zone 5 / Zonailo, Carolyn., 1978

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