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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6469 Collections and/or Records:

wrecking ballzark, th: The Life & Rhymes 2nd ed.. No.1 / jw curry., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-53356-63128
Scope and Contents

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.5. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: The Life & Rhymes 3rd Edition. No.5/Nov / jw curry., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-53358-63131
Scope and Contents

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.19. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: Theory 1-4. No.63/Mar / bp Nichol., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-52074-73179
Scope and Contents

Also designated th wrecking ballzark #63. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: Theory Of Mailing 2nd Ed. No.17 / David Aylward., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-51942-73043
Scope and Contents

The poem reads 'POST-TU-LATE.' T his is the 2nd edition of a poem first published by Ganglia 1969. Also designated pomez a penny #37 and Curvd H&Z #59. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: To Go Home. No.56/Oct / Mark Laba., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-53121-74272
Scope and Contents

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.243. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

wrecking ballzark, th: W. No.31/Nov / Steven Smith., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-52079-73188
Scope and Contents

Also designated Curvd H&Z No.110. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Writers Forum 1992 is the Anniversary Year / Cobbing, Bob., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-20345-20742
Scope and Contents

Depicts reproduction of first visual poem made on copying machine in 1942 and another in 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Writers Forum Check List of Publications / Cobbing, Bob, editor., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-17736-18105
Scope and Contents

Provides a listing grouped under the classifications used by Cobbing for the publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Writers Forum / Cobbing, Bob ; Claire P ; Cage J ; curry jw ; Firnberg V ; McCaffery S ; DeWit J ; Houedard DS ; Bentivoglio M ; Nuttall J ; levy da ; bissett b., 1991

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Identifier: CC-20204-20600
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

writing / Hill, Crag., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-60803-10003657
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Writing Series: Pressures #2 / Kallman, Edith., 1989

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Identifier: CC-61630-10007091
Scope and Contents The word "pressures" is repeatitively written in the image. The Passdoor (Sebastopol CA) website Edith Kallman (1926-2014) was unique in her approach, using the repetition of words in a calligraphic style to create intricate patterns. Her spirals and grids offer us personal and social messages that vanish into graphic images. "Such words and phrases as: Obsessive, Pressures, And On and On, serve as titles...the words stimulate viewer participation and experience." Edith was influenced by the abstract expressionist painters of the 50"s and 60's, and contemporary artists of her time: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. You can see their influence in her use of color fields and gestural brush strokes. In the early 70"s she developed her own style, which challenged the aesthetic establishment of her times. She was highly influenced by the Graffiti Art movement...
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Writing Series: Private Musings / Kallman, Edith., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-37187-39031
Scope and Contents

This drawing is a 4 x 2 grid that provides a "sampler" of Kallman's calligraphic and visual styles. The single phrase of the title is used exclusively in all the panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Writings for the Oulipo / Monk, Ian ; Perec G ; Mathews H ; Adair G., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-49412-70457
Scope and Contents

Ian Monk has been a translator of Georg Perec's books. Monk contributes a chapter of analysis of Gilbert Adair's translation of Perec's "A Void. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

wroclawska poezja konkretna / Michal Bieganowski, curator ; Bocian M ; Jez Z ; Kolasinski G ; Drozdz S ; Koryzna H ; Kosinska M ; Kozlowski B ; Makarewicz Z ; Michnik B ; Przytocki J ; Szutowski W., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-00681-697
Scope and Contents

Each print consists of a two poems, one printed recto and the other verso on papercard stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

WZ / Powell, David., 1991

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Identifier: CC-04345-4426
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

X / Gussago, Maria Ferraro., 1975

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Identifier: CC-10066-10265
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Xadrez de Estrelas, 1976

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Identifier: CC-14876-15189
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

Xaipe: Seventy-One Poems / cummings, e.e.., 1950

 Item
Identifier: CC-20623-21025
Scope and Contents

This is the second printing of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1950
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

[xeoxox x2] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55350-9999098
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Xerolage: Assassin. No.37 / Andrew Topel., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44338-46487
Scope and Contents

Each page reproduces a single concrete poem. The Sackner Archive also holds the manuscript for this work which has 40 pages of poems. Twenty-six poems were used for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

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