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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6528 Collections and/or Records:

Years / Daniels, David., 2001

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Identifier: CC-39117-41059
Scope and Contents

David Daniels was born in 1932 and begins his autobiography embellished with fantasizing with 1933. He describes his life in concrete poetic terms, year by year up until 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Years / Daniels, David ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Basinski M ; Goldsmith K., 2001

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Identifier: CC-40968-42947
Scope and Contents

This book extends the autobiography of David Daniels from 1973 to 2002 (original manuscript with same title ran from 1933 to 1972). The years 1933 to 1972 are repeated from the original manuscript that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Yellow Flags, 2010

 Item — Box 194: [Barcode: 31858072459641]
Identifier: CC-54575-990021
Scope and Contents

The original title is "The Triumphal Procession of White Clouds Moving Upstream" and calls to mind his Neo Fauve poem from 'Flags From A Remnant Railway' of 1975. It was first printed as a letterpress postcard on the tredle platten press at The Trent Bookshop in 1969. It was subsequently reprinted in The Sea is Silent by Coracle 1991, amongst other places. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

[yellow yellow yellow] (070963) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-57865-10001117
Scope and Contents

This typing consists of a zig-zag column of the word yellow and nine words up from the botton the single word green.This is conceptually similar to silencio by Gomringer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Yester'n' Today / Kriwet, Ferdinand ; Apollinaire G ; Mallarme S ; Mon F ; Schwitters K ; Nauman B ; Joyce J ; Fahlstrom O ; Gomringer E ; Ulrichs T ; Wolf R ; Schulz CB ; Celan P ; Brock B ; Uecker G., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52513-73641
Scope and Contents

This catalogue depicts copious illustratIons of his works througout his lifetime. It is mentioned that Kriwet wrote his first book, "Rotor," in 1961 as a continuous text without capital letters, stops and commas at age 19 years. This book is analyed on pages 53-55 by Christoph Benjamin Schulz. A 1981 solo exhibition was the last one for 23 years until 2004 when rgw BQ gallery in Cologne showed old and recent works. And until 2011 when the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf held this retrospective. Pages 57-103 depict examples of Kriwet's typewritten poetry beginning at age 14 years with convention poetry and progresssing to concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Yet Another Rubber Stamp Poem, 1988

 Item — Box Adler: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-37580-39437
Scope and Contents

The drawing depicts solely the letter 'A' in a kinetic pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Ying-Yang Cube, 1968

 Item — Folder 77: [Barcode: 31858072538360]
Identifier: CC-55695-9999281
Scope and Contents

This iks the lay-out for assembling the poem in its cubic shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

yo catch a whitemanby his manifesto / Houedard, Dom Sylvester, teacher; students of bath academy of art., 1969

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Identifier: CC-55962-9999430
Scope and Contents

The print designs were made by students at the Bath Academy of Art from suggestions made by Houedard as to their themes. The Sackners originally owned two portfolios, one of the numbered edition, the other of an unnumbered edition signed by Houedard on the title page. A water leak in the house near these porfolios completely ruined one of the portfolio covers and damaged the other; two prints that orinally had several artistikc incisions were runed. The print collaged onto one of the portfolios was salvaged for a newly made substitute portfolio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence: Crafts Discourse and the Common Reader In Canadian Poetry Book Reviews / Mancini, Donato ; Colombo JR ; Betts G ; Acorn M ; Bok C., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55269-9999031
Scope and Contents Linda Hutcheon (Amazon.com): While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is at stake in the reviewing of poetry? What fantasies are inherent to the practice? How is poetry itself produced in the reviewing of poetry? Why has the reviewing of poetry remained largely invisible to self-reflexive critique? These are some of the many questions You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence dares to ask in its query to determine if poetry reviewers can claim to have the authority the imagine they have over their chosen subject. As a retort to the retrograde trend that is poetry reviewing in Canada, You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is the first book to detail the production and structure of an "aesthetic conscience"...
Dates: 2012

You Silently (Two) / Marina Warner, curator ; Dawn Ades, curator ; Winston S ; Finlay IH ; Scanlan P ; Krecker D ; Parker G ; Stangos N., 2008

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Identifier: CC-54617-990064
Scope and Contents

Sam Winston's, "Passion" print of the Romeo and Juliet series is depicted. The complete work of this series (6 prints, edition of five) is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008