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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 417 Collections and/or Records:

Right Left / Steen, Vagn., 1969

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Identifier: CC-28175-29338
Scope and Contents

In a personal communication to the Sackners from Steen, he wrote the following. Steen wrote the words "right left' once, then he made left more left by spelling left backwards, e.g. tfel, written upright, and then turns it more to the left, in fact by writing it normally and mirroring it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Rob the Plagiarist / Fitterman, Robert., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50070-71130
Scope and Contents

In his acknowledgement Fitterman writes, "This collection houses several of my texts that were written since 2000 and that have appeared in literary journals and chapbooks. Taken together, the sum of these pieces reflects my continued interest in a poetics of plagiarism.So, finally, this house may be your house.. Most of the writing here is part essay, part poetry, part libretto, part conceptual writing, and nearly all borrowed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Sample Example: Visual Lyrics / Leftwich, Jim., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31809-33327
Scope and Contents

The front cover reads, 1. Do something that I can think of as art. th back cover reads, 2. Do something that I cannot think of as art. The text mainly deals with the trial of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Selected Walks 1979-1996 / Long, Richard., 1999

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Identifier: CC-37406-39259
Scope and Contents

Walks by Long through the countryside are described in short phrases recreating the geography in texts that are handwritten in upper case letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Selections from Local Colour, 2008

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-49382-70427
Scope and Contents

This pamphlet is based upon the original book that is held by the Sackner Archive, "Local Colour" which in turn derives from Paul Auster's novella, "Ghosts." The latter descibes characters named White, Black and Blue. Black lives on Orange Street. In the Beaulieu treatment of this work, only chromatic words are retained and the rest are "cancelled" with non-printed, white space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Simulated Letters to Mallarme / Cooper, Bernard ; Mallarme S., 1973

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Identifier: CC-18520-18892
Scope and Contents

Cooper prints a brief paragraph in the center of a page about notions dealing with the alphabet, words, punctuations, and phonemes on the center of the left side of the page in a calligraphic typeface. For example, "Words led back to their origins, which is the twenty-six letters of the alphabet, so gifted with infinity that they will finally consecrate language. Everything is caught up in their endless variations and then rises out of them in the form of principle. Thus typography becomes a rite." This same paragraph is printed on the facing right side page but in a bolder typeface and with irregular spacing between the lines of the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Single: Words for Ian Hamilton Finlay / Cutts, Simon, editor ; Clark L ; Cobbing B ; Williams J ; Mills S ; Bevis J ; Garnier I ; Jandl E ; Abrioux Y ; Nannucci M ; Cutts S ; Phillpot C ; Turnbull G ; Corman C ; Morgan E ; Bann S ; Winkfield T ; Gathercole R ; Garnier P ; Sackett C ; Duncalf S ; Edeline F ; Clark TA., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30213-31616
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of a printed single word that was contributed by a poet listed at the beginning of the book, e.g., Thomas A. Clark: blaeberries, Laurie Clark: evening, Bob Cobbing: fin, Jonathan Williams: gardyloo, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Skutterudite / Hendricks, Geoff., 1971

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Identifier: CC-49952-71011
Scope and Contents

This work lists words that begin with 'sky." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971