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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Grid Shift / Gibbs, Michael., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-50554-71626
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds the original drawing of this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Grin / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

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Identifier: CC-17510-17876
Scope and Contents

Designated minibooks number seventeen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Gronk: a selection from Carnival. No.2 / Steve McCaffery., 1970

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Identifier: CC-36937-38770
Scope and Contents

Probably published in an edition of 400 copies. McCaffery provides an excellent summary of the construction of this modified version of an early section of carnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Gronk: Gronk Reading and Writing. No.6 / Joseph Di Donato., 1969

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Identifier: CC-36266-38056
Scope and Contents

Usually published in an edition of 400 copies. The poems consist of words, e.g., full, why, formed with letraset and embellished with calligraphic and abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Gronk: in memorium notice for da levy. No.3 / bp Nichol., 1968

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Identifier: CC-36931-38764
Scope and Contents

Probably published in an edition of 400 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Gronk Inadmissible Series: A Christmas Vision in the Voice of St. Nicholas. No.5/Dec / bp Nichol., 1999

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Identifier: CC-31881-33404
Scope and Contents

This poem was executed by bp Nichol in 1980 and published about that time. It was originally issued as Gronk Intermediate Series No.21. According to jw curry in ROOM 3O2 10D 2007, this should have been labeled No.6 rather than No.5. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Gronk Intermediate Series: A Christmas Vision in the Voice of St. Nicholas. No.21 / bp Nichol., 1980

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Identifier: CC-31886-33409
Scope and Contents

This poem, the 1st edition, was executed by bp Nichol in 1980 and published about that time. The Santa Claus depicted on the cover of the envelope is an offset print collaged to the envelope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Gronk Intermediate Series: A Christmas Vision in the Voice of St. Nicholas (second edition). No.21 / bp Nichol., 1999

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Identifier: CC-31880-33403
Scope and Contents

This poem was executed by bp Nichol in 1980 and first published at that time; this second edition differs from the current copy in that the Santa Claus on the cover of the envelope in the first edition is an offset print collaged to the envelope whereas in the current copy, Santa Claus is a rubberstamped image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Gronk Intermediate Series: Broken Mandala. No.2 / Steve McCaffery., 1974

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Identifier: CC-36868-38701
Scope and Contents

Each page was composed in a photocopier and has the same phrase "complete charges from" obsessively repeated and overprinted. In some pages, this is combined with abstract marks, in others with images such as an eye or a standing gorilla. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Gronk Intermediate Series: Ship Sands Island. No.8a / Gerry Shikatani., 1976

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Identifier: CC-36273-38063
Scope and Contents

The theme of this poem is the activities of the Great Blue Heron. The first issue carried the issue number 8a and an unknown number of copies circulated as No.10. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Gronk Intermediate Series: The Legends of Jack O'Kent. No.13 / P.C. Fencott., 1978

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Identifier: CC-10568-10773
Scope and Contents

Line drawings in this book were done by Brandy Wine and calligraphy for title page and cover by Anne Whitely. The story is of Jack O'Kent and his dealings with the devil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Gronk Intermediate Series: White Sound. No.7 / bp Nichol ; Aylward D., 1976

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Identifier: CC-36860-38693
Scope and Contents

This book was first published in an edition of two copies in 1966 as a collaboration with David Aylard. One copy is in the Hans Sohm Archives and the other was retained by Nichol. It was made with a combination of rubberstamping and mimeography. The present book was composed with a combination of rubberstamping and photocopying. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976