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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

or / ro / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-17471-17837
Scope and Contents

Each of the four pages of this book depicts a typewriter poem that consists of the text "or/ro" and other two letter words such as "we/we." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Orange A Omega] / Furnival, John., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-13251-13552
Scope and Contents

Depicts orange overprinted letters, A and Omega in the shape of a regular cross. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Orange Au Pair Girl / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-11865-12086
Scope and Contents

The size of this edition is not known nor is it listed in Finlay's book Prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Ordo / Belloli C ; Gomringer E ; Mon F ; Ulrichs T ; Vieira M., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-38365-40266
Scope and Contents

The introductory essay to the exhibition was written by Carlo Belloli. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

orientovane texty / Valoch, Jiri., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57397-10000704
Scope and Contents

This consists of the same prints as in the English version of the title, 'oriented texts.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Original Concrete / Berry, Jake., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-23628-24075
Scope and Contents

This is Berry's "1st Concrete Poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Originalplakate/Handpressen-Drucke / Edition Despalles ; Mon F ; Mautz K ; Harig L., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-14114-14419
Scope and Contents

Catalog lists concrete poetic posters printed with woodcut type by the press. Several of these posters are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Origins of British Experimental Poetry / Cobbing, Bob; Gomringer E; Houedard DS; Finlay IH; Morgan E; deMelo e Castro EM; Garnier P; Chopin H; Novak L; Fahlstrom O; Cox K; Williams J; Edmonds T., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-17671-18039
Scope and Contents

Cobbing discusses the early concrete poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Kenelm Cox, Dom Sylvester Houedard, and Tom Edmonds in depth. This essay is unbpubished. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Orphan / Winston, Sam., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-52547-73677
Scope and Contents The single, unique, unbound perforated page that depicts a poem entitled "Breath" was provided to this deluxe edition. The other four deluxe copies had different poems. A unique copy contained the manuscript. The following has been taken from the Web Site of Sam Winston: "Since 1999 I collated scraps of paper, diary notes and typed word document all pertaining to this one idea I was trying to express through a story. And when in 2010 I finally did reach a final draft, I also realised I had generated a history of documents that said something about the process of writing itself. For Orphan I wanted to present both my final tale and show the archaeology of that writing process. By cutting out the words from my previous drafts I created clouds of text that I could use as the "typeface' for my final draft. It is a book in which you have both the story and its history presented on the same page. The second section is comprised of the previous drafts that didn't make it into the final...
Dates: 2011

Ossessivo / Ferro, Luigi., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-12812-13099
Scope and Contents

The word "ossessivo" meaning obsessive in English is repetively overprinted in this image in an obsessive but still recognizable way. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968