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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6395 Collections and/or Records:

Partial Additives / Dutton, Paul; Cobbing, Bob., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-16123-16466
Scope and Contents

Dutton added a letter to recognizable words to take on a new meaning. The defintions of the new word are printed on the same page. The Sackner Archive holds the printed book based upon this manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Partitions [A Cycle of Poems] / Kostelanetz, Richard ; Young K., 1992

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Identifier: CC-53075-74221
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a single word and the words that can be formed from it with adjacent letters. The covers were designed by Wally Depew. There are four copies of covers with purple and two copies with red backgrounds. One red copy is stored in a Kostelanetz box, the others in a Depew box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Partum / Stazewski, Henryk ; Partum, Andrzej., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-31157-32625
Scope and Contents

The poems, printed one to each page, are obscure in meaning. Partum died on March 1, 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

passeggiata nel bosco (300663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-55109-58810
Scope and Contents

This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Paste Book Number One: For You You You, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55000-113355
Scope and Contents

The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Paste Book Number One: Ho Ho Ho, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-54994-90397
Scope and Contents

The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Paste Book Number One: Linda Linda Linda, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55001-99887
Scope and Contents

The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. Linda Bandt was Wally Depew's wife. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Paste Book Number One: This is That is, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-54996-21435
Scope and Contents

The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in one single folder. This is the one record that depicts the cover of the folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Pau / Xisto, Pedro., 1966

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Identifier: CC-54041-62362
Scope and Contents

This card was removed from John J Sharkey's Scrapbook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Paul de Vree, 1981

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Identifier: CC-15299-15621
Scope and Contents

Includes an introduction by Jan Van der Hoeven and several essays by De Vree on aspects of visual and concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Paul KLee / Saroyan, Aram., 1965

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Identifier: CC-58786-65152
Scope and Contents

his image was printed by Brice Marden. Saroyan received a $5,000 grant from NEA to produce this print and FOUR other minimalist, concrete poems. This grant prompted William Proxmire, senator from Wisconsin, to award his Golden Fleece Award to the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the most outrageous examples of slap-your-forehead misappropriations. In his book "an/thology of pwoermds" Geof Huth writes the following: "I began to write pwoermds after becoming entranced by Saroyan's eyeye. The simple beauty of that poem haunted me, even though (and maybe because) the poem began as a typographical error of Saroyan's and it took a friend of his to point out to him its signficance (Solt, Concrete Poetry, 57)." This print was redone in 1989 as a silkscreen orint in 1989 in an edition of 150 with a priceof $1,000 on the internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

p(down)u (150663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55740-9999303
Scope and Contents

The meaning of this poem is obscure. It may mean the act of urination, e.g., you pee down with the open parentheses depicting the urinating stream. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963