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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Oui X / Gerz, Jochen., 1967

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Identifier: CC-27441-28489
Scope and Contents

The image consists of two rows of capital X's interrupted by the word OUI. This is among the earliest drawings in concrete poetry made by Gerz. It is depicted as No.466 in his Catalogue Raisonnne Volume III. It should be noted that Gerz designated this work as an example of visual rather than concrete poetry despite the absence of an image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Oumbigo Ambiguo, 1985

 Item — Box And-Andre: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-24623-25076

Our Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas! / Nichol, Eleanor; Nichol, Sarah; Duncan R., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32239-33797
Scope and Contents

The poem was composed by bp Nichol and first appeared in West Coast Line No.25, 1988. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Our Hearts Are Filled with Joy / Karsch, Benjamin; Sharabi, Liat., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28392-29619
Scope and Contents

This is an invitation to the engagement festivities in Tucson and the wedding in Jerusalem of Benjamin, nephew of the Sackners to Liat. The calligraphic decoration is shaped like a Chupah, under which the traditional Jewish wedding ceremony takes place. The calligrapher is Denni Ann Gershaw. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Out-of-Print / Granary Books ; Abrioux Y ; Finlay IH ; Aldan D ; Andrews B ; Bernstein C ; Anthony B ; Antin D ; Artaud A ; Ashbery J ; Giorno J ; Baruchello GF ; Bee S ; Shores M ; Belloli C ; Beltrametti F ; Berman W ; Bing X ; Blackburn P ; Blaine J ; Breton A ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Campbell K ; Clark T ; Cobbing B ; Copley W ; Creeley R ; Crombie J ; Cutts S ; Douglas H ; Stokes T ; Drescher H ; Dreyfus C ; Drucker J ; Elmslie K ; Ely T ; Fahrner B ; Fava V ; Filliou R ; Fine R ; Ford CH ; Frank P ; Hoffberg J ; Freeman B ; Friedman M ; Furnival J ; Gallo P ; Garnier P ; Gibbs M ; Gins M ; Giorno J ; Gomringer E ; Warschauer H ; Gysin B ; Hamady W ; Hansen A ; Harms A ; Unica T ; Hausmann R ; Haynes R ; Helmes S ; Herms G ; Higgins D ; Houedard DS ; Hoyem A ; Jess ; Kaldewey G ; King S ; Knowles A ; Kostelanetz R ; Lax R ; Laxson R ; levy da ; Ligorano N ; Reese H ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; MacLow J ; Johnson R ; Mathews H ; McCaffery S ; Nichol bp ; Moeglin-Delcroix A ; Morrow C ; Hanson S ; Mottram E ; Perloff M ; Phillips T ; Greenaway P ; Phillpot C ; Hendricks J ; Porter B ; Smith EK ; Faust D ; Quasha G ; Riha K ; Robson E ; Roth D ; Rothenberg J ; Ruhm G ; Ruscha E ; Saroyan A ; Schneemann C ; Schwitters K ; Sdun D ; Smith K ; Spector B ; Stein G ; Bee S ; Torok K ; Tyson M ; Tzara T ; VanHorn E ; Vostell W ; Welch C ; Williams E ; Williams J ; Wilson M ; Winkfield T ; Young K ; Young L ; Zelevansky P ; Zimmerman P ; Zweig J., 2000

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Identifier: CC-33976-35648

Out of WordS / Endwar ; Aylward D ; Williams E ; Ulrichs T., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43333-45393
Scope and Contents

Endwar titles a poem from a word(s) and fragments it(them) into clusters and spaces, while retaining the same order of the letters, to form a new poem which can be read from top to bottom. In the folded sheet, endwar explains his poetry as subverse poetry, a type of subtractive, permutational or anagrammatic poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Outlaw of the Lowest Planet, 1946

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Identifier: CC-31832-33350
Scope and Contents

This collection of previously published Patchen poems selected by David Gascoyne appeared only in an English edition. It includes a single concrete poem reprinted from the book, "The Dark Kingdom." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1946

Ouviver a Musica / Correa de Oliveira, Willy., 1968

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Identifier: CC-18574-18946
Scope and Contents

Correa de Oliveira's letter to Kenelm Cox explains the performance of his experimental music score, "Ouviver a Musica." Its name, given by Decio Pignatari, means to listen (ouvir), to live (viver), to see (ver). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Over the Hill (But Ready to Roll), 1990

 Item — Box 199: [Barcode: 31858072459690]
Identifier: CC-43786-45882
Scope and Contents

The title of this piece is printed on each sheet of toilet tissue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[overlapping filled typed squares] (170664) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56002-9999466
Scope and Contents

In this poem, all the squares are typed, not collaged. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Ovi / Sharoff, Shirley; Calvino, Italio; Fusco M., 1988

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Identifier: CC-02059-2097
Scope and Contents

This deluxe edition of the book has four additional signed gravures added to the four engravings in the ordinary edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Ovum 10: Exposicion Exhaustiva de la Nueva Poesia / Schauffelin KB ; Claus CF ; Gerz J ; Ulrichs T ; Arias-Misson A ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Nichol bp ; Deisler G ; Higgins D ; Jacoby R ; Solt ME ; Williams E ; Chopin H ; Cobbing B ; Finlay IH ; Phillips T ; Houedard DS ; Bremer C ; Cremer S ; Groh K ; Klophaus A ; Kriwet F ; Mayer HJ ; Mohr M ; Mon F ; Schmidt SJ ; Schmidt W ; Weissner C ; Ginzburg C ; Pazos L ; Vigo EA ; Gappmayr H ; Jandl E ; Lichtenauer F ; DeVree P ; LeSidaner JM ; VanEssche L ; Vroom I ; Azeredo R ; Branco A ; Carvalho A ; Cirne M ; DeSa A ; Filho P ; Grunewald JL ; Pinto J ; Mund Hjr ; Pignatari D ; Sa N ; Ribeiro P ; McCaffery S ; Gilbert G ; Suknaski A ; Sward R ; Adamus K ; Grogerova B ; Hirsal J ; Honys J ; Wojnar J ; Novak L ; Nebesky L ; Valoch J ; Pedersen K ; Boso F ; Caceres JA ; Iglesias del Marquet J ; Millan F ; Pino F ; Uribe E ; Viladot G ; Atchley D ; Hompson DD ; Fernbach-Flarscheim C ; Fox H ; Kaprow A ; Indiana R ; MacLow J ; Ockerse T ; Targowski H ; Phillips MJ ; Raman E ; Ruscha E ; Stern G ; Mallander J ; Blaine J ; Boltanski C ; Bory JF ; Dufrene F ; Garnier I ; Garnier P ; Gette PA ; Hausmann R ; Heidsieck B ; Janicot F ; Lepage J ; Moineau JC ; Petronio A ; Tobas C ; Ben ; Wolman G ; Bann S ; Breakwell I ; Cameron C ; Draper R ; Finch P ; Furnival J ; Gibbs M ; Jenkins P ; Kilburn D ; McCarthy C ; Mayor D ; Parfitt W ; Sandoe M ; Clavin H ; Damen H ; DeRook GJ ; DeVries H ; Joseph P ; Nucha N ; VanDerLinde F ; Urban J ; Roth D ; Accame V ; Alloatti A ; Beltrametti F ; Bentivoglio M ; Belloli C ; Carrega U ; DellaCasa G ; Diacono M ; Ferro L ; Gut E ; Isgro E ; Landi L ; LaRocca K ; Locatelli U ; Lora-Totino A ; Martini S ; Miccini E ; Nannucci M ; Niccolai G ; Oberto A ; Oberto M ; Oliva AB ; Ori L ; Osti M ; Parmiggiani C ; Pedrotti E ; Piemontese A ; Pignotti L ; Persico M ; Ramous M ; Sarenco ; Scalise G ; Spatola A ; Spatola M ; Sitta C ; Tiziano F ; Vaccari F ; Verdi F ; Vicinelli P ; Villa E ; Xerra W ; Kitasono K ; Motoyuki I ; Niikuni S ; Takahashi S ; Toshihiko S ; Ehrenberg F ; Klintberg B ; Bodin LG ; Hanson S ; Lille C ; Hodell A ; Johnson B ; Laaban I ; Gomringer E ; Zurbrugg N ; Padin C ; Todorovic M ; Zagoricnik C., 1972

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Identifier: CC-51558-72657
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a letter picture by Clemente Padin. The contributors to this exhibition constituted all the major artists/poets working contemporaneously in concrete and visual poetry. Stored in Ovum 10 box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

OW / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

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Identifier: CC-45794-48004
Scope and Contents

Cobbing called the photocopied print process "monoduplicator prints." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970