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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Happy New Year! / Merks, Jane ; Bartl, Peter., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-33812-35478
Scope and Contents

The year '2000' is made up of a large printed '2', a watercolored '0', a lipstick printed '0' and a '0' burnt out from the paper. The aphorism reads, "Decide what's important and do it!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Harald im Profil / Hosselbarth, Kai., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30301-31710
Scope and Contents

The subject is a profile of a man with each part of the head printed as a word, e.g., Nase Nase Nase to form the nose. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Hare Krishmas / Williams, Emmett., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-32196-33747
Scope and Contents

This greeting consists of the title printed in a highly stylized, yellow colored, calligraphic text on a blue background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Harm / Papenfus-Gorek, Bert ; Jandl E., 1985

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Identifier: CC-28229-29397
Scope and Contents

Ernst Jand contributed a brief introductory essay. The sole shaped poem depicts a hanging apparatus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

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

 Item
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
Scope and Contents

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