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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

La Poesie Sonore / Henri Chopin., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-20009-20398
Scope and Contents

The typing in the drawing consists of the numbers 84 and the handwriting to the nature of Big Brothers after George Orwell and the possibilities of a totalitarian state. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Le Monde Est Cruel / Chopin, Henri., 1966

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Identifier: CC-18686-19059
Scope and Contents

This is the working typed copy for a larger version print published in 1982 (held by the Sackner Archive) and for a page which appears in Chopin's book, "Le Dernier Roman du Monde." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Le Poeme Alphabetique / Chopin, Henri., 1965

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Identifier: CC-18689-19062
Scope and Contents

This was also published in Chopin's book, "Le Derniere Roman du Monde" and reproduced with minor differenced in Williams' "Antholigy of Concrete Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Les Cercles de Fees / Chopin, Henri., 1984

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Identifier: CC-18704-19077
Scope and Contents

The number 84 was typed repetitively to achieve the desired visual effect. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[Letter to David W. Harris on Broadside of Poem] / Bory, Jean-Francois; Harris DW; Chopin H; Nichol bp., 1967

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Identifier: CC-22446-22870
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns J. Bory's placement of copies of "Gronk" No.1 and 2 in Paris bookshops, and comments on expenses involved with being a publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Letter to Henri Chopin on Postcard of "SII" Poem] / Bory, Jean-Francois; Chopin H; Blaine J; Sohm H., 1966

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Identifier: CC-21553-21964
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns sending works by J. Blaine and photographs of H. Sohm to H. Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Notes au Soleil / Chopin, Henri ; Valery P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35075-36803
Scope and Contents

This copy of the book (A) has all five original typings used in the book that describes and relates Chopin's typings to sound poetry. The accordion pamphlet entitled 'Canto Solaire' is a sound poetry score. Note that of the 160 other copies, 10 contain one original typewriter poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000