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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

from arat x art - art 2: situartion - situation; rature- arture , 2001

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-38031-39917
Scope and Contents

The two pages were originally composed in 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

From Arne with Love / Wolf, Arne., 1973

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Identifier: CC-00499-511
Scope and Contents

The title is repeated in grid-like patterns, over printed, and turned up-side-down to create a highly textured, dense work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

From Boomsday to Doosday..Attention Please, Attention If You Please Do Not Panic, 1980

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13259-13560
Scope and Contents

The theme of the poem deals with the Cold War and is depicted on page 64 of Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

From Constance to Fifi: The Loves of My Life, 1985

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Identifier: CC-17960-18330
Scope and Contents

The love is actually for a fount of Atlas type. When Charlotte Garry wrote to John Crombie saying she didn't understand the book, he patiently wrote back, 'it is designed, essentially as a diversion for typographers: the cover and first page show a complete fount, the lay of a case of type. On each successive page, a number of letters have been removed: those required to compose a particular name. Ten pages, ten names - from Constance to Fifi. Of course, it's really just a pretext dreamed up by me to show off the Atlas type, an old case of which I'd just acquired by chance.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

From I to Iran: Further Subverse Wanderings / Endwar., 1990

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Identifier: CC-13402-13703
Scope and Contents

Endwar titles a poem from a word(s) and fragments it(them) into clusters of letters and spaces, while retaining the same order of the letters, to form a new poem which can be read from top to bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

From Imagism to Concrete Poetry: Breakthrough or Blind Alley? / Cluver, Claus; Saroyan A; Solt ME; Williams E; Indiana R; DeCampos A; Gomringer E; Mallarme S., 1987

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Identifier: CC-19809-20196
Scope and Contents

Cluver presents definitions of Concrete Poetry and its controversies. Robert Indiana's "LOVE" works and e.e. cummings poem "brIght" are analyzed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

From Imagism to Concrete Poetry: Breakthrough or Blind Alley? / Cluver, Claus; Saroyan A; Solt ME; Williams E; Indiana R; DeCampos A; Gomringer E; Mallarme S., 1987

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Identifier: CC-19835-20222
Scope and Contents

Cluver presents definitions of Concrete Poetry and its controversies. Robert Indiana's "LOVE" works and e.e. cummings poem "brIght" are analyzed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

From None to Something / Cole, David., 1989

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Identifier: CC-17808-18178
Scope and Contents

According to Cole, the book is based upon "24 small, daily artworks recording a humorously scandalized conversation between a rubber stamp of a Nun and a rubber stamp of a Townswoman" mailed to him by Sheril Cunning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

From Ode to Anthem: Problems of Lyric Poetry / Grimm, Reinhold, editor ; Hermand, Jost, editor ; Simmias of Rhodes ; Porphyrii PO ; Besantinus ; Maurus H ; Geuder J ; vonBerken S ; Kleiner G ; vonGrieiffenberg C ; Herbert G ; Sainct-Gelais M ; Grisel J ; Gomringer E ; Klesel D ; Bremer C ; Belloli C ; Bill M ; cummings ee ; Apollinaire G ; Morgenstern C ; Solt ME ; Garnier I ; Garnier P ; Niikuni S ; Cook S ; Jandl E ; Agnostowitsch I ; Dohl R ; Carduna C ; Cataldo J ; Finlay IH ; Boso F ; Castillejo JL ; Aman R ; KIrsch S ; Atwood M ; Derrida J ; Novak L ; Pound E., 1989

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Identifier: CC-32961-34579
Scope and Contents

This book was based upon proceedings of 17th annual workshop sponored by the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Reinhold Grimm wrote a detailed, historical, illustrated essay on emblem, concrete and shaped poetry titled, "Poems and/as Pictures: A Quick Look at Two and a Half Millennia of Ongoing Aesthetic Intercourse." Sixty five examples of such poems are depicted. Grimm provides several shaped poems by different authors from George Herbert to Eugen Gomringer on "meditative wings." A shaped poem by an anonymous author entiltled "Cube" (1710) is printed in German and Yiddish (Figure 29). ee cummings' poem "Grasshopper" (1935) is reprinted (Figure 32). Includes three erotic shaped poems by Reinhold Aman, editor of the magazine, Maledicta (Figures 62-64). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[from "Poemes franco-japonais" (1966)] / Niikuni, Seiichi; Garnier, Pierre., 1972

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Identifier: CC-49168-70208
Scope and Contents Stored with two other Niikuni photographs as a card set. Wikipedia: Seiichi Niikuni (新国誠一 Niikuni Seiichi, December 7, 1925 "“ August 23, 1977) was a Japanese poet and painter. He was one of the foremost pioneers of the international avant-garde concrete poetry movement, creating works of calligraphic, visual and aural poetry. He is recognized as one of the most important poets of recent times in Japanese and German textbooks. In 1964, Niikuni participated in the E. E. Cummings study group held in Yukinobu Kagiya's house, and met Yasuo Fujitomi while there.[6] On June 4, he established an association called the Association of Study of Arts or ASA (芸術研究協会 Geijutsu KenkyÅ« Kyōkai) with Fujitomi with the objective of exploring and experimenting with concrete poetry. They published a namesake magazine ASA and in it introduced both Japanese and foreign concrete poetry, and also translated poems by Haroldo de Campos into Japanese. Fujitomi would also introduce the...
Dates: 1972

From Science to Systems of Art / Railing, Patricia ; Burliuk D ; Malevich K ; Ouspensky P ; Kruchenykh A ; Khlebnikov V ; Marinetti FT ; Kamensky V., 1989

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Identifier: CC-03126-3175
Scope and Contents

The author describes "The Naked One Among the Clad" as Kemensky's first ferroconcrete book of poetry. She also cites and translates into English "Futuristy-Hylaea" and "Constantinople" (probably the first ferroconcrete poem). Both are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989