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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Marriage / Solt, Mary Ellen., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-02773-2816
Scope and Contents

Solt introduces the two concrete poems by stating that the code poems are derived from the universal language of signs and symbols that have been used from ancient times to the present as taken from the subjects of the alphabet, astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, commerce, engineering, mathematics, medicine, music, physics, punctuation, runes, zoology, etc. She provides a key to the ideograms that render the rebus to be deciphered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Marriage / Solt, Mary Ellen., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-02774-2817
Scope and Contents

Solt introduces the two concrete poems by stating that the code poems are derived from the universal language of signs and symbols that have been used from ancient times to the present as taken from the subjects of the alphabet, astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, commerce, engineering, mathematics, medicine, music, physics, punctuation, runes, zoology, etc. She provides a key to the ideograms that render the rebus to be deciphered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Marvo Movies Matter / Cobbing, Bob., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-17681-18049
Scope and Contents

The duplicate is signed but not dated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Mary Stuart's Ravishment Descending Time / Peacher, Georgiana., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-04124-4203
Scope and Contents

This is the text for the unnumbered, silkscreened, unbound pages of the Artist Book of the same title, which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Masson's and Mallarme's Un Coup de des: An Esthetic Comparison / Hubert, Renee ; Hubert, Judd D.., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09373-9559
Scope and Contents

The Mallarme versions of the poem and the Masson one mentioned in this article are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Mathemaku for Beethoven / Grumman, Bob., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-34071-35751
Scope and Contents

The word "understanding" is typed repeatedly in four variations on a sky blue background. The top of the pages contain a blue colored rectangle, a division mark, and the words, "the sky," The fourth sheet also says "explainability" and contains a line of music and minimal poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Mathemaku for K.S. Ernst, 2001

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Identifier: CC-37490-39343
Scope and Contents

Grumman gave this collage to the Sackners during his visit to the Archive in June 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Matrix / Schroeder, Gerald., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-03025-3070
Scope and Contents

Schroeder produced dense typewriter poems by running the words together. In this publication, the author uses the surname Jerry rather than Gerald. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Matsushima Ya: 36 Views of a Poem by Basho for Kieko and Morgan Gibson / Young, Karl; Basho; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-38327-40224
Scope and Contents

This work is a Young's modification of a Haiku by Basho that can be transilliterated: Matsushima Ya - A A Matshusima Ya - Matsushima Ya. Matshusima is a small archipelago in northern Japan, Ya is one of the abstract, hieretic words used in Haiku according to complex rules, and A (pronounced Ah) is an aparently universal, spontaneous exclamation used as commonly in contemporary America as it was in 17th century Japan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988