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Box 289

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Water Yam 4th Edition, 1983

 Item — Box: 289
Identifier: CC-22622-23051
Scope and Contents

Works are originally dated from 1961 to 1962. This copy includes a booket entitled 'NUT BONE' that is not present in the 5th edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Cut book with strike-out poetry], 1985

 Item — Box: 289
Scope and Contents

The book has been cut down diagonally, leaving little text inside. The text and images have been greatly modified by being crossed out and/or redacted, e.g., full lines and eyes of figures.

Dates: 1985

Make a Joyful Noise, 1988

 Item — Box: 289
Identifier: CC-38326-40223
Scope and Contents

Denoted as #15 of 6th series of musical books. Consists of three blocks of hollowed painted wood that have moveable metal objects within them to give sounds when shakened. The blocks are joined together by cardboard onto which has been printed a listing of types of books, viz., A Book of Hours, A Log Book, A Workbook, A Psalter, A Hymnal, An Ablum, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

A Prayer Wheel for Brion Gysin (I Am That I Am...), 2010

 Item — Box: 289
Identifier: CC-52184-73305
Scope and Contents

Produced by endwar, "this object is modeled on the prayer wheels used in Tibetan Buddism. When spun, the device reads a potentially endless recursive variant of the divine tautology "I AM THAT I AM" used in one on Brion Gysin's permutation poems from 1960. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010