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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

Haroldo de Campos, 73, Form-Bending Poet / De Campos, Haroldo; DeCampos A; Pignatari D; Sarduy S., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41411-43396
Scope and Contents

Simon Romero wrote this obituary and described concrete poetry as the arrangement of the letters of the word in shapes that would lend them multiple meanings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Haroldo de Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet / Jackson, K. David, editor ; Perloff M ; Bohn W ; Eco U ; Cabrera-Infante G ; Vater R ; Dworkin C ; Goldsmith K ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Ascher N ; Retallack J ; McCaffery S ; Webern A ; Antunes A ; Duchamp M ; Paz O ; Pound E ; Stein G ; Chopin H ; Kolar J ; Ruhm G ; Tavares S ; Morgan E ; Bann S ; Houedard DS ; Garnier P ; Cluver C ; Belloli C ; Gomringer E ; Caws MA ; Saroyan A ; Valoch J ; Nannucci M ; Bremer C ; Walther E., 2005

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Identifier: CC-46330-49054
Scope and Contents

This book consists of critical essays about Haroldo de Campos. It includes a postscript section on his death (1929-2003). Marjorie Perloff contributed an essay "Concrete Prose in the Nineties: Haroldo de Campos Galaxias and After" and interviewed both Haroldo and Augusto de Campos in "Brazilian Concrete Poetry: How It Looks Today." Willard Bohn wrote about "Concrete Poetry at the Crossroads," an intelligent critique of specific concrete poems by de Campos and contemporaries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Haroug / Geczi, Janos., 1980

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Identifier: CC-10036-10235
Scope and Contents

This concrete poem is laid out as an abstract design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

He is a doppel weh, o why / Shekerjian, Haig; Shekerjian, Regina., 1977

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Identifier: CC-59879-10002934
Scope and Contents

A copy of this photograph is also held by the University of Iowa Librairies Special Collections & Uniersity Archives, the pnly record found on the internet. The title translated to he is a double alas, I whu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

he las / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-57125-10000465
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From page top a cut out letter " l" is collaged onto page center with a green strip. At the bottom left Houedard has written "ode to the colonels" in reference to the Greek military dictatorship. On the right border he has written "glastsz ode consturctions ltd." Wikipedia: The Greek military junta of 1967"“74 (alternatively The Regime of the Colonels. The Dictatorship and The Seven Years was a series of right-wing military juntas that ruled Greece following the 1967 Greek coup d'état led by a group of colonels on 21 April 1967. The dictatorship ended in July 1974. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Head, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51991-73093
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Headlines:Eavelines / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stevenson A; Lord S; Furnival J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-12412-12638
Scope and Contents

Concrete poems were created from collated headlines. Eight were composed by the art students and five by Finlay. Ann Stevenson who did "Water Wheels in Whirl" is known as Ann Noel and is the wife of Emmett Williams. Work is dedicated to Eve Furnival, and cover of portfolio consists of a grid of identical child-drawn images of Finlay entitled "The Flying Scatsman." In this copy, the title page has a typographic error, viz., Published dy (sic) Openings Press...(this was not observed in another copy formerly held by the Sackner Archive). Ian Hamilton Finlay's "13 evelines," were sent to John Furnival's daughter Eve as postcards on thirteen consecutive days by students in Furnival's Bath Academy of Art class. It was subsequently printed as this portfolio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Hear The Art (Earth Heart) / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27698-28787
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive is listed as holding works by Tipping. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Hedgehogs Announce Annual Turnover / Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1967

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12406-12632
Scope and Contents

This is a duplicate print from Finlay's portfolio Headlines:Eavelines. The word, "turnover" in this copy are orange whereas the print in the portfolio is brown.The verso has the following inscription: "from Evalines / Headlines by I.H.F. and students at Bath Academy of Art Openings Press." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

heebiejeebies / Sloy., 2002

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Identifier: CC-40518-42490
Scope and Contents

The poem depicted on the cover of this card is an embroidered poem of Sloy's Shroud. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

hello JACK / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-57490-10000783
Scope and Contents

The letter to Jack [?] reads "here in a boite box with some bonbons sweets and a friend un ami and his chien dog for you and your jambe Leg to get well soon from silvester." The large letters on the right side of the page are typed by using the following lower case letters or punctuation marks: o _ . " $ . The right side of the page is crumpled and torn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Hello / Robinson, Jeri., 1992

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Identifier: CC-03598-3663
Scope and Contents

Theme of book is the intrusion by telemarketing; the spine is wrapped insulated colored wires that might be used for telephone connections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Henri et Jean, 1977

 Item — Folder 32: [Barcode: 31858072459914]
Identifier: CC-19781-20168
Scope and Contents

The large letters, H and J, stand for Henri and Jean as a celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977