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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

[Letter to Wally Depew (28/11/70)] / UU, David., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-50411-71479
Scope and Contents

This letter from UU to Depew deals with sending him experimental poetry works including extracts from American Dream, tree poems, comic strip art, and letter pictures. These poems are now held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[Letter to Wally Depew] / Gibbs, Michael., 1973

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Identifier: CC-50984-72062
Scope and Contents

Gibbs indicates that he is sending him issues of Kontexts 4 that includes pieces by Wally and Linda Depew. Gibbs also inquires about his poems that he submitted for publication in Dust. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

[Letter to Wally Depew] / Kotowitz, Victor., 1972

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Identifier: CC-48119-69142
Scope and Contents

Kotowitz writes Depew that he sends him four collages out of a series of 30 for publication in Poetry Newspaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Letterale / Roffi, Gian Paolo., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34654-36355
Scope and Contents

The letters of the alphabet are presented in varying size lower case fonts with a circle or leaf shape with letters on the side of each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Letterismia/manipulointia "kirjain ja kuva maalauksen valineena" 1960- ja 90-luku / Ruutsalo, Eino ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1997

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Identifier: CC-32159-33703
Scope and Contents

The catalogue depicts photographic reproductions of the following prints that are held by the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Collection USA: 1) Dag Hammarskjold 1967, 2) Pumainen 1967, 3) Vanha pohjpiirustus 1967, and 4) Venaiainen monologi 1967. Ruutsalo died in 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Letters and Jazz: For Richard Hamilton, Lester Young, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker / Brecht, George ; Wewerka, Stefan ; Hamilton R., 1983

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Identifier: CC-21549-21960
Scope and Contents

G. Brecht and S. Wewerka cut-up, stamped and glued R. Hamilton's artrubberprint "Fire Tires" while listening to jazz to make this book.Printed Matter: This book presents reproductions of collaborative drawings made in January, 1981, by Brecht and Wewerka. As Brecht writes in the introduction: "We talked about letters, and Chinese, while / listening to jazz: Lester Young, Billie Holiday / Yardbird, and others. / Richard Hamilton's artrubberprint "Five Tires' / was cut up, stamped, glued. / There was plenty to drink, too! / We have never thought of these "drawings' as / works to be shown, let alone reproduced. They are / just the leftovers of an evening when the authors / tried to get a bit clear(er) about "letters.'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Letters and Numbers], 1986

 Item — Folder 80: [Barcode: 31858072538394]
Identifier: CC-20834-21242
Scope and Contents

The drawing on a heavy brown paper utilizes a grid of graphite inscribed squares that are filled in a random fashion with vividly painted letters and numbers. The latter appeared to have been laid out with a stencil and encompassed one to three square constellations. The attachment of meaning to the letters, numbers, and their lay-out is not readily apparent. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Letters from Brno / Valoch, Jiri., 2012

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Identifier: CC-54079-643011
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book were given to Charles Verey by Valoch and are now in the collection of Willliam Allen, the book dealer. Thre book was printed by Colin Sackett. In a letter to Verey reproduced in this book, Valoch declares that the four optical, concrete poems later reproduced in this book are a gift to Verey. The Sackner Archive holds two similar poems that were initially given to Wally Depew by Jiri Valoch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Letters from Home / Lopes, Damian., 1991

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Identifier: CC-07124-7264
Scope and Contents

Each card has a single letter of the word "home" repeated multiple times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

[Letters in a Snowy Landscape] / Cole, David., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28162-29325
Scope and Contents

This documents a project done by Cole involving the placement of large colored letters in a St. Paul, Minnesota park. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Letters Patterns Structures, 2009

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Identifier: CC-50431-71499
Scope and Contents

This is a "proof copy" of the book according to Topel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Letters Patterns Structures: 2010 Calendar / Topel, Andrew., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50524-71595
Scope and Contents

Images from the book with the same title are reproduced along with a monthly calendar on fine paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Letters to the Great Dead: Dom Sylvester Houedard 1924-92 RIP / Furnival, John., 1996

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-28593-29882
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a photographic portrait of Houedard along with the famous Haiku he translated from Bashu, "frog, pond, plop." It is depicted on page 140 of Furnival's book, "The Locative-Vocative Cases." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Letters to the Great Dead: Dom Sylvester Houedard 1924-92 RIP / Furnival, John., 1996

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Identifier: CC-54726-990160
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a photographic portrait of Houedard along with the famous Haiku he translated from Bashu, "frog, pond, plop." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Letters to the Great Dead: Ite in Pace / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1985

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Identifier: CC-13143-13444
Scope and Contents

The poem can be read as So Long or Song. The title is in Latin meaning Rest in Peace. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

[Letters to Wally Depew] / Kostelanetz, Richard., 1985 - 1999

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Identifier: CC-58070-10001317
Scope and Contents

Kostelanetz's correspondence with Depew considers their mutual work on publications and distribution of their works. Two Kostelanetz Year End Report from 1985 and1991 are included in this correspondence collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985 - 1999