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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 137 Collections and/or Records:

No.5: Catalogue of Little Press Books in Print (1978-1979) / Association of Little Presses ; Mottram E ; Nuttall J., 1979

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Identifier: CC-04564-4651
Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists and describes publications from small presses in England during 1978 and 1979. Information from each submitting press was collated in this catalogue thereby accounting for the different papers and printing styles. The cover was designed by Jeff Nuttall. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

No.8: William S. Burroughs - The Hombre Invisible / Atticus Books., 1981

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Identifier: CC-26171-26634
Scope and Contents

A foreword by Burroughs describes his technique of folding cut and rearranged portions of existing text to create a new, composite text. Further, this juxtaposition creates new combinations of word and image. Tom Phillips was influenced by Burroughs' methods in creating his own visual poetic book, "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

No.13: Little Press Books in Print / Poetry And Little Press Information ; Benveniste A ; Nuttall J ; Cobbing B ; Griffiths B ; Horovitz M ; Dutton P ; Andrews B ; Furnival J ; Cage J ; Ball H., 1994

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Identifier: CC-04742-4831
Scope and Contents

Includes a checklist of Writers Forum publications from 1992 to 1994, an author index of little press books in print, and press, dealers and bookshop addresses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

No.28: The Art of Spain & Portugal: Books and Rare Periodicals / Ars Libri., 1982

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Identifier: CC-24880-25333
Scope and Contents

Lists the periodical, Orpheau, which was purchased by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

No.64: Henry Miller Books / Chloe's Books., 1993

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Identifier: CC-20360-20757
Scope and Contents

List books, watercolors, biographies, film, and contributions to magazines by Miller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Notes Comments Talks Articles on Concrete / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-09071-9250
Scope and Contents

Lists manuscripts and the periodical of their publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Omaggio a Ezra Pound / Vanni Scheiwiller, curator ; Pound S., 1969

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Identifier: CC-28072-29231
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by Vanni Scheiwiller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Paging Peggy Lefler, 1993

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Identifier: CC-20257-20654
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by jw curry, lefler's divorced husband. The Sackner Archive catalogue in included in the bibliography of lefler's publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics, 2001

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Identifier: CC-46341-49065
Scope and Contents

This book is from the Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies series. "From the writing of seventeenth-centuy England to the avant-garde contemporary poetics of writers...McCaffery traces intersections along a broad conceptual plan that he terms he protosemantic, demonstrating how a reader must examine the interstices of each text, its paragrammic possibilities, and Deleuzean folds." McCaffery includes a section on "A Humument" by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Publications Documents Affiches Concernant BEN / Ben., 1971

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Identifier: CC-36454-38248
Scope and Contents

The descrption of Ben's works up until 1970 incudes the tirage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Published in Paris / Ford, Hugh ; Apollinaire G ; Breton A ; Brown B ; cummings ee ; Duchamp M ; Ford CH ; Hugnet G ; Mallarme S ; Smith WJ ; Joyce J ; Stein G., 1975

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Identifier: CC-11419-11635
Scope and Contents

Subtitled "American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939." Includes a detailed description of Bob Brown and his book, "Readies" in the chapter, The Roving Eye. The Sackner Archive holds Readies - a gift of Eric Estorick. This edition is a reprinting of the book that was first published in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax, 2015

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Identifier: CC-61184-10003920
Scope and Contents Stored in Robert Lax box.New York Times book review: To describe Robert Lax as a minimalist poet does scant justice to the reedlike shape of his "vertical" poems. A typical page in his most comprehensive book, "Poems (1962-1997)," might contain 20 words arranged in columnar form, a single syllable or punctuation mark to each line. One poem consists of "ro"‰/"‰ber"‰/"‰to" "” the name Lax was often called in his adopted country, Greece "” repeated three times, followed by "cries"‰/"‰the"‰/"‰roos"‰/"‰ter" with the final pair of syllables again thrice repeated.This can be curiously beguiling, over a brief period, but Lax's poetry has little of the visual playfulness or verbal ingenuity of like-minded members of that broad church known as concrete poetry, like Ian Hamilton Finlay, the Scottish poet and artist with whom Lax corresponded. In "Pure Act," Michael N. McGregor tells us more than once that Lax was mainly interested in writing for himself.McGregor, a professor at Portland...
Dates: 2015