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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Housepress Spur: ripples. No.4 / Derek Beaulieu., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36684-38498
Scope and Contents

Beauleau composed an adaptation of Bosho's haiku, pond - frog - plop, by substituting several letters of this poem with parentheses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Housepress Spur: ripples. No.4/Apr / Derek Beaulieu ; curry jw., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32375-33944
Scope and Contents

This is a variation of a haiku poem popularized by Dom Sylvester Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

hovedard / veda - hoard / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55779-556677
Scope and Contents

The verso depicts dsh's handwriting in the u.r. corner of the title "hovedard / veda - hoard" where the v stands for u. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

How to Spell the Alphabet / Auerbach, Tauba., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46485-49214
Scope and Contents Amazon.com description: How arbitrary are the marks, analog and digital, used to express language, and where do they begin to muck it all up? This first book from Tauba Auerbach, Yes and Not Yes features over 20 new paintings and drawings that spring from those questions. They offer an excellent if roundabout answer: while letters are largely arbitrary, they are rich with abstract beauty and conceptual depth. In razor-sharp execution--which reveals her training as a sign painter--Auerbach's works on panel and paper update the abstract conceptual tradition, while retaining its intellectual rigor. Uppercase Insides and Numeral Insides recall Russian Suprematism, and, upon further contemplation, turn out to be just what their titles call them. Works based on signal flags and the Ugaritic Alphabet--an extinct language from Syria, 1300 B.C.--confirm that puzzlement is part of the desired effect here. Where direct exchange between sign and meaning is impossible, the beauty of the symbol...
Dates: 2006

How Will One Hide / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

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Identifier: CC-12101-12325
Scope and Contents

The shape of this poem is a simplified labyrinth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

HUJ / Cobbing, Bob., 1974

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Identifier: CC-17780-18149
Scope and Contents

This print was published as page 37 in Ceolfrith No.28: Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Hybrid Laughter / spence, pete ; Jandl E., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39196-41141
Scope and Contents

In one poem in this pamphlet, spence does "A Humument" treatment of a text for a homage to the artist, Helen Frankenthaler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Hybrid Laughter / spence, pete ; Jandl E., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39197-41142
Scope and Contents

In one poem in this pamphlet, spence does "A Humument" treatment of a text for a homage to the artist, Helen Frankenthaler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Hydraulica / Vroom, Ivo., 1967

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Identifier: CC-00831-850
Scope and Contents

The poetic image conveys the impression that the title is being raised upward by hydraulic force. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Hysterical Power / Chiarlone, Rosemarie; Weiner, Susan., 2013

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Identifier: CC-58347-10001563
Scope and Contents

The complete text of this work is "Hysterical Power Lumatic STrength Cyclical Sensitivity" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

I Conogsmme / Ferro, Luigi., 1967

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Identifier: CC-12628-12860
Scope and Contents

Image is made up of a series of interlocking vertical "f's." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

i crept inside, 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-23891-24339