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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

Ganglia's Concrete Series: I Microcosmique. No.1 / Pierre Garnier., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-36250-38039
Scope and Contents

The poems consist of varied arrangements of the letter "i." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Ganglia's Concrete Series: Touch. No.2 / David W. Harris ; bissett b., 1967

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Identifier: CC-10637-10846
Scope and Contents

Provides an introduction patterned after bill bissett's unique spelling of the English language. Each page depicts a reproduction of a single typewriter poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

GAP: The Storming, The Bastille, & The Petunia. No.14/May / Greg Evason., 1990

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Identifier: CC-10319-10522
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of images drawn in ink together with handwriting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

gazzetti di gazzarre, gazarre di gazzette / Lora-Totino, Arrigo ; Cena, Sergio., 1993

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Identifier: CC-31378-32857
Scope and Contents

This book mainly depicts photographic reproductions of collages composed with typewritten and found printed texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Gedanken Haie (The Raw Shark Texts) / Hall, Steven ; Marcus Ingendaay, translator ; Susanne Hornfeck, translator ; Sonja Hauser, translator., 2007

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Identifier: CC-52244-73366
Scope and Contents This is the first German edition of this book.Audrey Niffenegger Amazon.com writes: "Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time. Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his...
Dates: 2007

Gedicht [overlapping filled typed squares] (170664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56698-10000086
Scope and Contents

In this poem, all the squares are typed, not collaged. The original typing is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Gedichte / Dohl, Reinhard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-15647-15975
Scope and Contents

These poems that were composed between 1960 and 1966 have the pattern of the early concrete poems of Gomringer, the Constellations, viz., groups of nouns to express the ideas with minimal visual impact from the arrangement of the words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Gedichte uber Gedichte / Jandl, Ernst ; Siblewski K., 2001

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Identifier: CC-53997-642970
Scope and Contents

Klaus Siblewski contributed an essay about the works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Gefangen (Captive) / Buchwalder, Ernst., 1980

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Identifier: CC-40808-42784
Scope and Contents

The German word "gefangen" is drawn six times within a loose grid of wavy bars to denote the effect of being captive. This drawing was reproduced in Zeitschrift fur Alles No.6, 1981, page 19. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Geiger Poesia: Humpty Dumpty. No.1 / Giulia Niccolai ; Carroll L., 1969

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Identifier: CC-10116-10317
Scope and Contents

This book visually interprets Lewis Carroll's language using the techniques of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Geiger Poesia: L'Orologica. No.38 / Jean-Clarence Lambert., 1976

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Identifier: CC-10123-10324
Scope and Contents

Adriano Spatola translated the poetry from the French into Italian. This book includes a drawing (reproduced) by Valerio Adami. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976