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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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Identifier: CC-52635-73771
Scope and Contents

Each poem is enclosed within the outline of a found leaf. This copy differs from the limited edition of 25 copies in that the folder is photocopied paper rather than papercard collaged. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Lecture for Bob Cobbing's Exhibition "Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You" / Sackner, Ruth; Abess M; Sackner MA; Goldsmith K; Traister D; O'Sullivan M; Cheek C; Bernstein C; Joris P; Celan P., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48182-69206
Scope and Contents

Ruth Sackner delivered this lecture at the opening of Bob Cobbing's Exhibition "Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You." It focused on the relation of Mathew Abess, the curator of the exhibition and the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Lecture for Eyear / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Gomringer E; DeCampos A; Isou I; Lemaitre M; Garnier P; Chopin H; Heidsieck B; Novak L; Bense M; Tilson Jo; Williams E; Dufrene F., 1964

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Identifier: CC-09695-9888
Scope and Contents

Houedard in his introduction states that this is the first lecture (concrete poetry) delivered in the English speaking world. He presents an extensive critical analysis of Gomringer's poems including "Avenidas," "Silencio,"etc. and DeCampos poetry. Calligrammes were inspired by Mallarme's "Un Coup De Des" as well the music of Webern. He discusses the basis for Ultra-Lettrisme and Sound Poetry and provides a chronology for Sound Poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

L'eeilli (the there) / Arrigo Lora-Totino., 1967

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Identifier: CC-52489-73616
Scope and Contents

This is also designated No.1 of the series "fonemi plastici 1967." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Leiden / Damen, Herman., 1975

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Identifier: CC-15865-16198
Scope and Contents

The word leiden is typed lower case with a white ribbon giving the appearance of embossed words. The lower case i is added in red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975