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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

Holey Shit / Berg, Estelle., 2014

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Identifier: CC-58865-10002069
Scope and Contents

The concrete poem is by Estelle Berg and was made on a machine in the RISD Museum.The perforations spell out the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

homage 1 a leopold sedar senghor/ machine rollcall for peter levi sj (050964) / POEME BLANC (140663) / GOMRINGER (190864) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Levi P; Gomringer E; Senghor LS., 1963 - 1964

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Identifier: CC-57866-10001118
Scope and Contents

This typing consists of a zig-zag column of the word yellow and nine words up from the botton the single word green.This is conceptually similar to silencio by Gomringer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963 - 1964

homage a leopold sedar senghor 3 (201163) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56065-9999512
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Leopold Sedar Senghor was a Sengalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal for two decades. He was the first African elected as a member of the Academie francais. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

homage a leopold sedar senghor (100763) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56063-9999510
Scope and Contents

Leopold Sedar Senghor was a Sengalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal for two decades. He was the first African elected as a member of the Academie francais. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

homage to dylan - bob/thomas (011266) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Thomas D., 1966

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Identifier: CC-44117-46241
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The column of letters in this poem spell out "dylan" as an homage to bob dylan and dylan thomas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Homage to Ezra / Keith, Bill., 1993

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Identifier: CC-08094-8254
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Ezra refers to Ezra Pound. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Homage to James Joyce / Wolf, Anna., 1993

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Identifier: CC-00519-532
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Wolf's drawing, "Homage to James Joyce" was reproduced in Letter Arts Review Vol.11 No.3 as contributions to in their Seventh Annual Competition in the Singular Works category. Commenting on this work," Wolf writes, "In my pieces, I try to parallel visually the verbal structure of various texts, though not necessarily spelling out the actual words. This piece suggests the often incomprehensibility of Joyce's text, of comprehensibility only fo the "initiated." About "1001 Nights," she states, "The piece capture the flavor of the exotic Arabian fairy tales." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

homage to leopold sedar senghor 2 (201163) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56064-9999511
Scope and Contents

Leopold Sedar Senghor was a Sengalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal for two decades. He was the first African elected as a member of the Academie francais. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Homage to Malevich / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Wellard, Angela., 1978

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Identifier: CC-12448-12675
Scope and Contents

The phrase "Black Block" is printed in lower case letters to form five squares in the shape of a cross. Unclear as to whether this version was authorized by Finlay. This is a varient of Finlay's version which appeared in Rapel (1963). There is another lithographic print with the same title composed with Michael Harvey abd published by Wild Hawthorn Press (19745). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Homage to Mallarme / Mayer, Peter., 1987

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Identifier: CC-06596-6715
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Thus poem is subtitled, "Dictionary poem in SN." On the left side of the card, Mayer presents an English translation from a text by Mallarme, "Les Mots Anglais (1877) that deals with creation of words. For example, Mallarme states that 'sneer' and 'snake' lead a reader of English to regard the diagraph 'SN' as being sinister. He then uses 'SN' to create a layout of words with such a beginning through incorporation of the vowels, e.g., snag, snail, sneak, sneeze, snide, sniper, snob, snot, snub, snuff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Homage to Pierre Albert-Birot, for "Les femmes pliantes" / Chopin, Henri., 1975

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Identifier: CC-19765-20152
Scope and Contents

Three impressions of this print, published in Ruby Editions Portfolio 1, were superimposed on each other. The Ruby Edition Portfolios are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975