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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6529 Collections and/or Records:

21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics / Perloff, Marjorie ; Altieri C ; Andrews B ; Antin D ; Apollinaire G ; Arnheim R ; Ashbery J ; Bernstein C ; Blaser R ; Bok C ; Cage J ; Drucker J ; Duchamp M ; Ginsberg A ; Hamilton R ; Henderson L ; Hejinian L ; Howe S ; Janecek G ; Joyce J ; Khlebnikov V ; Kruchenykh A ; MacLow J ; McCaffery S ; Malevich K ; Marinetti FT ; Mayakovsky V ; Phillips T ; Pound E ; Silliman R ; Stein G ; Schwarz A ; Waldrop R ; Werschler-Henry D ; Wittgenstein L ; Yeats WB ; Zukofsky L ; Eliot TS ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H., 2002

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Identifier: CC-52246-73368
Scope and Contents L. "les193" Amazon.com: Perloff is one of the great boosters of the 'alternative modernists' -- the theme of this book -- and spends a good deal of time in the trenches, doing polemical readings of recent poets in the avant-garde. Lyn Heijnian versus, e.g., Seamus Heaney -- Perloff wants radical approaches, and she finds the best of those who'll never be reviewed in the New York Times because of their newness. Maybe fifty years from now, the Times will pretend that, of course, we all knew they were great from the start. Obscure to god-like, with no intervening step. In contrast to some of the avant-garde LANGUAGE types, Perloff is fair and low BS when it comes to her criticism (constrast Charles Bernstein's insufferable Poetics.) Her close readings are in the style of someone like Helen Vendler (although Perloff and Vendler are near-contemporaries, so it's unlikely that one's derivative of the other.) There aren't many people who can write with such acuity -- the only thing worse...
Dates: 2002

23 sins / Neaderland, Louise Odes., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40721-42695
Scope and Contents

The pages are cut in horizontal ribbons with a single word containing "sin or cin or syn" on a page such as sincere, synagogue, cinder, cinema and Cinncinnati. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

25 Extracts from 25 Cards / Baines, Phil., 1987

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Identifier: CC-29318-30679
Scope and Contents

The content of the cards from which this booklet was printed is diaristic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

30 Signatures to Silver Catches / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Sandeman, Margot., 1971

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Identifier: CC-11720-11938
Scope and Contents

The name of a fishing ship which is printed on each page in its original typeface provides a poetic expression as the pages are turned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

31 Erotic Concrete Sonnets for Samantha / Phillips, Michael Joseph., 1979

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Identifier: CC-51314-72403
Scope and Contents

This copy was mailed to Luigi Ballerini. The poems are mostly repetitiously printed of a single or a few words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

36. In the Beginning / Furnival, John., 1965

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-34080-35760
Scope and Contents

The poster depicts a stylized phallus formed from letters with a center channel ejecting the biblical phrase "In the beginning was the word..." The number 36 in the title refers to Furnival's 36th birthday -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

40 Poem(a)s / cummings, e.e. ; Augusto De Campos, translator., 1986

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Identifier: CC-20304-20701
Scope and Contents

Includes reproductions of the correspondence between cummings and De Campos focusing on the typesetting of the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

40 + Product of Holland, 1968

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-32452-34026
Scope and Contents

The poem with gold colored, repetitive words is printed in the shape of a tondo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

41P / Beaulieu, Derek., 1999

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Identifier: CC-37596-39453
Scope and Contents

This print is housed in a brown paper portfolio with "House Press" and its logo silkscreened onto it along four other prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

45 Modelli de Uso / Carrega, Ugo., 1981

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Identifier: CC-28639-29939
Scope and Contents

An explanation of each work is provided in a soft cover book accompanying the works that are stored within the large green box in form-fitted compartments. The translation from the Italian is handwritten in English on the verso of each of the 45 works. Carrega comes to concrete and visual poetry from a literary tradition rather than as a visual one This work is a mini-retrospective of his oeuvre dating from 1955; it has a great deal in common with conceptual art and text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981