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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:

th first sufi line / bissett, bill., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-30442-31863
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

(Th) Gossamer Bed Pan / bissett, bill., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-48451-69479
Scope and Contents

This first edition differs from the later, revised edition in its covers, fold-outs, and the presence of an offset page. There are more rubberstamped texts and less typewriter poetry in the first edition than the revised edition. The revised edition also has pages printed in red ink whereas the first edition does not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Th Gossamer Bed Pan - Revised / bissett, bill., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-22394-22817
Scope and Contents

This first edition differs from the later, revised edition in its covers, fold-outs, and the presence of an offset page. There are more rubberstamped texts and less typewriter poetry in the first edition than the revised edition. The revised edition also has pages printed in red ink whereas the first edition does not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Th Gossamer Bed Pan - Revised / bissett, bill., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-32769-34361
Scope and Contents

This first edition differs from the later, revised edition in its covers, fold-outs, and the presence of an offset page. There are more rubberstamped texts and less typewriter poetry in the first edition than the revised edition. The revised edition also has pages printed in red ink whereas the first edition does not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Th Jinx Ship Nd Othr Trips / bissett, bill ; levy da., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-23620-24067
Scope and Contents

This is a major compendium of bissett's diverse styles in poetry and art and is the author's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

th oranges uv orantangua / bissett, bill ; Beaulieu D., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-54831-990261
Scope and Contents

The front and rear covers were composed by bill bissett. The book was designed Derek Beaulieu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

trewt [grid text over text] / bissett, bill., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-48346-69371
Scope and Contents

This poem was reproduced in Dust No.16. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

trewt [intersecting lines with text over text] / bissett, bill., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-48344-69369
Scope and Contents

This poem was reproduced in Dust No.16. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

trewt [reading vertically] / bissett, bill., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-48345-69370
Scope and Contents

This poem was reproduced in Dust No.16. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

trewt [triangular shape] / bissett, bill., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-48343-69368
Scope and Contents

This poem was reproduced in Dust No.16. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Vancouver Mainland Ice and Cold Storage 3rd Edition / bissett, bill., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-23603-24050
Scope and Contents

This is the 3rd edition; the 1st was published in 1973 and the 2nd in 1974. All are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

vowl man / bissett, bill., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-57993-10001253
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a frontal view of a man formed with typed vowels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

What about What / curry, jw; bissett b., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-20627-21029
Scope and Contents

This is an unpublished article written for the first issue of What Magazine. curry compared bissett's book, "What" to an imagined magazine of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985