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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 417 Collections and/or Records:

Sonnet(s) / Carrion, Ulises., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-16770-17125
Scope and Contents

Carrion takes the same poem, alters it slightly, and provides a new title describing the alteration, viz, Capital Sonnet, Underlined Sonnet, Famous Sonnet etc. This is the author's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Sports, 2008

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Identifier: CC-48871-69908
Scope and Contents

This is the last of Kenneth Goldsmith's trilogy (The Weather, Traffic and Sports). It consists of Goldmith's parsing of the complete radio transcription of the longest nine inning major league baseball game on record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Spring, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44610-46773
Scope and Contents

In this book, Goldsmith transcribes one year's worth of daily, sixty-second weather reports broadcast on a New York City AM radio station. The engravings have been described by Siena as visual algorithms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Standard Hagstrom Maps / Piper, Adrian., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-30093-31491
Scope and Contents

The mimeographed page gives instructions for explaining Hagestrom maps of New York City. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Statement of Defectiveness / Tot, Endre., 1972

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Identifier: CC-49479-70525
Scope and Contents

One leaflet is printed on white paper, the other on pink paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Stereoscopic Text / Mayer, Peter., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-06593-6712
Scope and Contents

This card prints two identical word lists in vertical columns, one on the left side has an aligned margin, the other on the right side is slanted to the right. The words in order from top to bottom are: Furthest, Further, Far, Near, Nearer, Nearest. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

study of identification / Valoch, Jiri., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-50471-71542
Scope and Contents

Each print has two words on opposite sides, viz., here & there. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Summer 1978: One Day I Meet You / Splettstosser, Peter J.., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-02994-3039
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a typewritten list of German cities and the time of arrival or departure of trains between them and Paris (rubberstamped in blue ink). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

symmetrical concept / Valoch, Jiri., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-50470-71541
Scope and Contents

Each print has one word, viz., today, tomorrow, yesterday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Ten Theses / Petasz, Pawel., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-58235-52596
Scope and Contents

On the final page, Petasz expresses dissatisfaction with the printing of the book and encloses two cards for a poll as to whether he should try again to better print this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Terror, Terror, 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-16694-17049
Scope and Contents

Book was printed from black & white photographs (rigidly planned) of poems that had already been made with wood block type. Further comments on this book can be found in Campbell's exhibition catalogue at the Yale Center for British Art (held by the Sackner Archive). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977