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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6515 Collections and/or Records:

Wordworks: Poems Selected and New, 1993

 Item
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

 Item
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

 Item
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

Works / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Greenhalgh, Martyn ; Nash J ; Clark L ; Harvey M ; Fine J ; Campion P., 1989

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Identifier: CC-11848-12069
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was designed by Finlay. The 10 photographs in this book from Finlay's garden are captioned with text from Finlay's "Detached Sentances on Gardening." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Works of Art / Ernst, Kathy ; Cole D ; Rosenberg MR ; Helmes S ; Bennett JM., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41511-43499
Scope and Contents

This catalogue presents work by Ernst from 1971 to the present. The following bookworks held by the Sackner Archive are depicted, 'Eye,' 'Sequencing,' and 'Book of Love.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Worte / Wezel, Wolf., 1977

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Identifier: CC-47789-68808
Scope and Contents

This book consists of typed, concrete poems based upon the German word for "one." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Worte Worte Worte - words, words, words / Spencer, Herbert ; Goethe J ; Themerson S., 1972

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Identifier: CC-39682-41642
Scope and Contents

Each page is minimally laid out with text from mostly classic writers that consists of aphorisms about words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Worter / Kriwet, Ferdinand., 1969

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Identifier: CC-33439-35080
Scope and Contents

This print appears to have been made from a collage of red, blue, and green colored fragments of rotor poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969