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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6395 Collections and/or Records:

(Le Circus) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stevenson, Ann., 1966

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Identifier: CC-12464-12691
Scope and Contents

This is preparatory print with multiple colored letters on white background for the subsequent smaller dimensioned poster poem which was printed on heavier paper by Tarasque Press with glowing red letters on a light blue background. The latter had optical image characteristics whereas this version does not. The Sackner Archive holds several works by Ann Stevenson under another name, Ann Noel. She is the widow of Emmett Williams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Le Fil du Miroir / Hauc, Jean-Claude ; Sarthou, Claude ; DeMarco J., 1980

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Identifier: CC-08967-9143
Scope and Contents Jean-Claude Hauca was born in 1949. Apres des etudes de Lettres à Montpellier, il publie ses premiers textes en 1975 dans la revue Entailles. Following studies in literature at Montpellier, he published his first texts in 1975 in the journal notches. L'annee suivante, il fonde avec d'autres jeunes ecrivains (Bernard Teulon-Nouailles, Anne-Marie Jeanjean et Jean-Marie de Crozals) Textuerre, une revue litteraire exigeante faisant aussi la part belle aux arts plastiques, dont il sera l'un des maitres d'œuvre jusqu'à sa dissolution en 1992 (70 numeros parus). The following year he founded with other young writers (Bernard Teulon-Noailles, Anne-Marie Jeanjean and Jean-Marie de Crozals) Textuerre, a literary journal by demanding too heavily loaded with fine arts, which will be the One of the contractors until its dissolution in 1992 (70 issues). Durant cette periode, il se lie avec d'autres ecrivains animateurs de revues : Dominique Labarriere (Rue Reve), Christian Prigent,...
Dates: 1980

Le Jardin Japonais Tome 1 / Garnier, Pierre., 1978

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Identifier: CC-27812-28945
Scope and Contents

Book was dedicated to Seiichi Niikuni, the foremost Japanese concrete poet. It consists of classic, minimalistic, concrete poems -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Le Jardin Japonais Tome 2 / Garnier, Pierre., 1978

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Identifier: CC-27811-28944
Scope and Contents

In this second volume of poems, most are minimalistic or done with mathematic and punctuation marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Le Monde Est Cruel / Chopin, Henri., 1966

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Identifier: CC-18686-19059
Scope and Contents

This is the working typed copy for a larger version print published in 1982 (held by the Sackner Archive) and for a page which appears in Chopin's book, "Le Dernier Roman du Monde." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Le Mouvement De L'Espace Typographique / Belleguie, Andre ; Werkman HN ; Zwart P ; Strzeminski W ; Schuitema P ; Berlewi H ; Eggeling V., 1984

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Identifier: CC-52921-74061
Scope and Contents

This book features 1) Werkman's pages from The Next Call, his typewriter poetry and letter pictures, 2) Piet Zwart's pages from the catalogue N.K.F. and other catalogues and advertisements with constructivistic typography, 3) Wladislaw Strzeminski's letter pictures and alphabet as well as examples of experimental typography from Schuitema, Berlewi, and Eggeling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Le Mur / Gette, Paul-Armand., 1968

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Identifier: CC-60323-60240
Scope and Contents

La Mur means The Wall in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

le paysage litteraire (160963) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-56080-9999527
Scope and Contents

This is a typed poem that resembles a landscape by spelling out the title that translates to "literary passage." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Le Petit Peignot: Dictionnaire de Mots-Images, 1996

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Identifier: CC-29115-30460
Scope and Contents

Peignot provides examples of word-images along with comments in an alphabetic listing. He uses alterations of letter spacing and boldness of the Futura typeface, repetition of letters, anagraphic presentation, variations in the arrangement of letters, mirror imaging, and punctuation marks to enhance and visually define the meaning of words. The poems are related to those found in another book published by Peignot in the same year, Toutes les Pommes se Croquent. Both books are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Le Poeme Alphabetique / Chopin, Henri., 1965

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Identifier: CC-18689-19062
Scope and Contents

This was also published in Chopin's book, "Le Derniere Roman du Monde" and reproduced with minor differenced in Williams' "Antholigy of Concrete Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Le Spatialisme En Chemins, 1990

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Identifier: CC-10540-10744
Scope and Contents

This is an inclusive historical survey from 1963-1968 of the concrete/spatialistic poetry composed by the authors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[Leaves] / Ocheretyansky, Alex; Gerald Janecek, translator., 1982

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Identifier: CC-42754-44793
Scope and Contents

Each poem is enclosed within the outline of a found leaf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982