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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Notes au Soleil / Chopin, Henri ; Valery P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35075-36803
Scope and Contents

This copy of the book (A) has all five original typings used in the book that describes and relates Chopin's typings to sound poetry. The accordion pamphlet entitled 'Canto Solaire' is a sound poetry score. Note that of the 160 other copies, 10 contain one original typewriter poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Notes Comments Talks Articles on Concrete / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-09071-9250
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Lists manuscripts and the periodical of their publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Notpoems / Aldridge, Adele., 1972

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Identifier: CC-26689-27159
Scope and Contents

Book contains several concrete poems which were reproduced in "Concrete Poetry II" published by Konglomerati Press, 1978 and Williard Espay's "An Almanac of Words at Play." This second edition contains 14 new poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Novas Selected Writings [Edited and with an introduction by Antonio Sergio Bessa and Odile Cisneros; Forward by Doland Greene], 2007

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Identifier: CC-49157-70197
Scope and Contents Amazzon.com: This is the first full-scale English translation of one of Brazil's-and the world's-most influential avant-garde literary voices. A generous introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. As a poet and as a cofounder of the renowned group Noigandres, Haroldo de Campos has made a unique and substantial contribution to the theory and practice of experimental writing, particularly the form known as concrete poetry, and to the Latin American avant-garde as a whole. These contributions, acclaimed worldwide by figures such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Octavio Paz, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, can be observed unfolding here, first in poetry selections ranging from de Campos' early work before concretism through his most recent production; then in theoretical...
Dates: 2007

NUB. No.8/Nov / Goeritz M., 1965

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Identifier: CC-05475-5580
Scope and Contents

Contains critical essay and examples of work of Mathias Goeritz written by Jan Bervoets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Nuclear Breathing Exercises, 1980

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Identifier: CC-03376-3430
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This broadside represents the original printing; it was later reprinted in a smaller, folded size by Leeds Postcards. The progressive disintegration of the two phrases in the poem, i.e. Breathe In & Breathe Out, as the poem is read from top to bottom ends in the last three lines as "I, UT, and T." It expresses the futility of coping with nuclear activities either from the bomb or pollution to our aeroenvironment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Nuclear Breathing Exercises / Richardson, Robert., 1980

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Identifier: CC-03378-3432
Scope and Contents

This broadside represents the second printing. The progressive disintegration of the two phrases in the poem, i.e. Breathe In & Breathe Out, as the poem is read from top to bottom ends in the last three lines as "I, UT, and T." It expresses the futility of coping with nuclear activities either from the bomb or pollution to our aeroenvironment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Number Poems / Weiss, Irving., 1997

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Identifier: CC-56593-9999998
Scope and Contents

According to Weiss' introduction, these poems consist of a "sequence of visual poems and word-only poems based on our familiar numbering system." Weiss constructs the poems as imaginative forms or as abstract ideas; they attempt to establish close connections between numeration and imagination. The Sackner Archive also holds the manuscript for this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Number Poems / Weiss, Irving., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30761-32207
Scope and Contents

According to Weiss' introduction, these poems consist of a "sequence of visual poems and word-only poems based on our familiar numbering system." Weiss constructs the poems as imaginative forms or as abstract ideas; they attempt to establish close connections between numeration and imagination. The Sackner Archive also holds the book based upon this manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Numerator/Denominator / curry, jw., 1987

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Identifier: CC-20764-21169
Scope and Contents

This book done as a palimpset on variations of the letters "I" & "H" was probably influenced by bp Nichol's experimental letter pictures. A written note on the cover to curry himself from his pseudonym, Mrs. Amuseus, states "nice effect, John, but you've failed to take into account the inadequacies of your materials. Conceptually strong but physically lacking." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987