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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6506 Collections and/or Records:

Words Cubed: Poetry for Your Table / Anonymous., 1994

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Identifier: CC-26739-27209
Scope and Contents

All surfaces of eight wooden cubes are printed in different typefaces with single words which can be turned to "create weird, unique, zany, brilliant expressions... The cubes are building blocks for composing clever prose." The typeface for each of the words is well thought out and could stand alone as minimalist poetry in several instances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words Cubed: Poetry for Your Table / Anonymous., 1994

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Identifier: CC-26739-27209
Scope and Contents

All surfaces of eight wooden cubes are printed in different typefaces with single words which can be turned to "create weird, unique, zany, brilliant expressions... The cubes are building blocks for composing clever prose." The typeface for each of the words is well thought out and could stand alone as minimalist poetry in several instances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words / Depew, Wally., 1973

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Identifier: CC-58085-10001333
Scope and Contents

Apparently unrelated words are rubberstamped in different letter on individual pages interspace with abstract woodxut images.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Words Fail Me / Monachino, Teresa., 2006

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Identifier: CC-47024-49762
Scope and Contents Amazon.com review: WORDS FAIL ME by Teresa Monachino, is a collection of mind-teasing wordplay designed to artfully manipulate the unpredictability of the English language. Award-winning designer and typographer Teresa Monachino has always been baffled by the English language's contradictions and peculiarities. Words do not mean what they say--the middle letters of believe spell lie. Words have the same spelling but differ in both pronunciation and meaning--minute is both miniscule and a measurement of time. Words are paired together redundantly--empty space or honest truth. WORDS FAIL ME is a witty collection of these unruly words, all set in Monachino's immaculate typography, that demonstrate the offbeat nature of the English language. Questions of spelling, pronunciation or the blatantly nonsensical are illustrated through clever visual representations that are created entirely through artfully manipulated typography. This playful and sometimes hilarious text sorts the homonyms...
Dates: 2006

Words in Three Dimensions / Gonzalez, Fernando; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; DeCampos A; Campos C; Silveira W; Phillips T; Dwyer N; Cheung CH; Hartmann W; Gomringer E; Pignatari D., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31275-32746
Scope and Contents

Fernando Gonzalez reviews the multi media performance of De Campos, Poetry Is Risk, and the concrete poetry movement in Brazil in his first article; he describes the Sackner Archive in the second section. The Sackners are photographed in their gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Words off the Street / Figallo, Anthony., 1995

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Identifier: CC-31116-32582
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a fragment of a newspaper headline. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Words on Walls / Barrett Reid, curator ; Brennan C ; Duke JH ; Murphy P ; Pi O ; Reed S ; Riddell A ; Selenitsch A ; spence p ; thalia ; Tipping R ; Cowan R ; Parr M., 1990

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Identifier: CC-00316-324
Scope and Contents

Tipping's multiple 'Airpoet' that is held by the Sackner Arcive is depicted on page 19. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Words Worth. No.2 / Alaric Sumner, Peter J. King, editors ; George G ; Cheek C ; McCarthy U ; Upton L ; Gibbs M ; Fencott PC ; Griffiths B ; Sharkey JJ ; King P ; Fisher A ; MacLow J ; Green P ; Buck P., 1978

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Identifier: CC-40867-42844
Scope and Contents

Mike Gibbs contributed 4 pages of mirror written, concrete poems printed on translucent paper such that they can be read by viewing the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

words worth while works, 1997

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-33133-34759
Scope and Contents

The poems were written between 1969 and 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

wordseen: Wordworks by 13 Visual Poets and Artists / Sackner MA ; And M ; Basinski M ; Bennett JM ; Ernst KS ; Ganick P ; Grumman B ; Helmes S ; Peters M ; Rosenberg MR ; Weiss I ; Arimany E ; Luis C ; Padin C ; Was E., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40452-42423
Scope and Contents Marvin Sackner wrote the essay for this catalogue, entitled "Introduction to WordSeen Exhibition." To begin, I must declare a conflict of interest in writing this introduction. Such a statement is required when a physician presents a paper to a scientific audience while having ownership in a company or being paid for conducting studies on medical devices or drugs related to his lecture. Since I am a physician and my wife Ruth and I own works by most of the artist/poets in this exhibition, I wish to be in front with this declaration. Nevertheless, I believe that I can be objective in my views since the works in this exhibition must stand visual relevance by attendees to this exhibition regardless of what I say just like medical studies must stand the test of reproducibility by other investigators. I hope you get the point about my opinions on conflict of interest. In this introduction to the exhibition, I shall comment on the differences between concrete and visual poetry as well as...
Dates: 2003

Wordworks: Poems Selected and New, 1993

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Identifier: CC-08121-8282
Scope and Contents Publishers Weekly: "In 1967, when critic Kostelanetz began publishing his own visual poetry, he was one of the most accessible practitioners of the form. A poem composed of the single word "lollypop" travels vertically down the page, the first O huge so the whole looks like a lollipop. A five-page tribute to Henry Ford is composed entirely of the letters A and T. Later work pulls apart words and places them back together, as in "relationship," the central I and O forming the knot of a bowtie-like shape formed by the other letters. "I seem to have . . . characteristic ways of handling language that extend from print into other media," Kostelanetz says as he moves from visual to aural poetry, then on to film and video poems. Short, conversational prefaces to each of this book's 15 sections help pave the way for uninitiated readers (though as the work becomes more difficult to appreciate on the page, his introductions become more technical and complex). These commentaries threaten to...
Dates: 1993

Wordworks: Poems Selected and New, 1993

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Identifier: CC-08122-8283
Scope and Contents Publishers Weekly: "In 1967, when critic Kostelanetz began publishing his own visual poetry, he was one of the most accessible practitioners of the form. A poem composed of the single word "lollypop" travels vertically down the page, the first O huge so the whole looks like a lollipop. A five-page tribute to Henry Ford is composed entirely of the letters A and T. Later work pulls apart words and places them back together, as in "relationship," the central I and O forming the knot of a bowtie-like shape formed by the other letters. "I seem to have . . . characteristic ways of handling language that extend from print into other media," Kostelanetz says as he moves from visual to aural poetry, then on to film and video poems. Short, conversational prefaces to each of this book's 15 sections help pave the way for uninitiated readers (though as the work becomes more difficult to appreciate on the page, his introductions become more technical and complex). These commentaries threaten to...
Dates: 1993

Work Seen. No.7/Dec-Jan / Judith Sandiford, editor ; Sackner MA ; Caruso B., 1990

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Identifier: CC-00370-378
Scope and Contents

Marvin Sackner's talk at Birganart Gallery, Toronto is briefly reviewed by Judith Sandiford and Ronald Weihs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Works 24 Poems / Saroyan, Aram ; Coolidge C., 1966

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Identifier: CC-39593-41552
Scope and Contents

All the poems in this book are printed with a red colored typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Works: A Sampling / Ernst, Kathy ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Rosenberg MR ; Cole D ; Bennett JM ; Helmes S ; Murphy S., 2008

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Identifier: CC-49706-70759
Scope and Contents

Eye a book object from 1983 held by the Sackner Archive is depicted in this book. The CD is titled "Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection, Ohio State University. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008