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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Plakat: Fauve Poem. No.5 / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1966

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Identifier: CC-04788-4879
Scope and Contents

The concrete poetic image on this card depicts the horizon seen in Holland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Plakat: Loakrime. No.9 / Philip Ward., 1967

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Identifier: CC-57147-51975
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds the original typed manuscript for this poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Plakat: Semiotic Drawing. No.3 / John Furnival ; Chopin H., 1965

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Identifier: CC-57145-51970
Scope and Contents

This card is depictd in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011) page 14 and was first published in 'Revue Ou' in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Plakat: Typestract. No.1 / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1965

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Identifier: CC-57142-51968
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First published in 'Revue Ou' in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Plan / Cobbing, Bob., 1971

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Identifier: CC-17487-17853
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In a personal communication from Paula Claire, she stated that this poem ie 'two' of 'Three Poems for Voice and Movement' by Bob Cobbing (1971). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Planet Noise / O'Gallagher, Liam., 1969

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Identifier: CC-52590-73725
Scope and Contents

This is also designated Nova Broadcast series No.4; Jan Jacob Herman is the editor and publisher. Each page depicts a concrete or visual poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Planet Saturn / Furnival, John., 1968

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13302-13603
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This black and white print has mathematical symbols, magic squares and words in which one or more of the stylized letters are printed in reverse, upside down. The central image depicts a 4 x 4 grid of numbers, letters and symbols. This is surrounded by a rectangular border of words, suggestive of Saturn's ring (?) that include "Yahweh, Demon, Sazel, Aziel, Spirit, Saturn, Planet." The words "Sazel and Aziel" are not listed in the dictionary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Planetary Culture / Todorovic, Miroljub., 1995

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Identifier: CC-29781-31159
Scope and Contents

This book documents books and periodicals dealing with concrete and visual poetry. The Sackner Archive is mentioned on pages 92 and 94. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Platonic Block Poems 1 & 2 / Elsberg, John., 1991

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Identifier: CC-26324-26791
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This is a design for a dust jacket of a book by John Elsberg, "Home Style Cooking on Third Avenue." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

pleasure TEXT possession; InterWriting 1996-2001 / Damon, Maria ; And, Miekal., 2005

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Identifier: CC-47985-69008
Scope and Contents

This book includes E.N.T.R.A.N.C.E.D, published in a pamphlet in 2002 and purchased at the Avant Garde Poetry symposium, Ohio State, 2002 by the Sackners. However, this book states that the poem was first published in 2004 in a limited chapbook edition by Xexoxial Editions. The duplicate copy does not contain the E.N.T.R.A.N.C.E. pamphlet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Pleure [For Wormwood Review Vol.1 No.14, page 16] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1964

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Identifier: CC-11882-12103
Scope and Contents

This poem was included in the Grant U. Roman Archive. The title translates in English to 'cry or weep.' This poem also is depicted in a red color in Finlay's book 'Telegrams From My Windmill.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

plouk / kuolp / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 2000

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Identifier: CC-45010-47186
Scope and Contents

At least one of the poems by Cobbing is a modification of a poem with the same typographic layout used by another poet. For example, Cobbing writes as a column, TH - MIS - PO - IS - TH - POM. Nannucci wrote "The Missing Poem is the Poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Plucked Plucked Plucked Plucked Plucked, 1967

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Identifier: CC-20147-20542
Scope and Contents

A siingle wor is printed on different colored paper stock, viz., PUT, (SIC!), CAT, & TOO. PIZZICATO, Clark's imaginative summation of the four words is printed on the inside back cover. The front cover shows incomplete pin holes on the lower right corner (plucked?) of one copy (purchased from William Allen Books) that is not present in the other. Designated No.114 in bibliography of book entitled "The Printed Performance Brian Lane Works 1966-99." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967