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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6487 Collections and/or Records:

Random Modulator [1] / Finch, Peter., 1975

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Identifier: CC-12840-13127
Scope and Contents

Photograph depicts a sculptural plant-like object with each leaf having a single word, e.g., mouths, songs, faces, space, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Random Modulator [2] / Finch, Peter., 1975

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Identifier: CC-12841-13128
Scope and Contents

Photograph depicts a detail view of this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Random Sightings [Reprint], 1999

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Identifier: CC-33510-35159
Scope and Contents

Several poems are word portraits of artists that include Francis Bacon, William Baziotes, James Ensor, Paul Gauguin, Turner, and Robert Motherwell. The book also includes reprints of levy's introductory essay to 306, 5 Cleveland Poems, you murders with your indifference, and the "IN" Group. The cover was designed by Alan Horvath, the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Rapel: 10 fauve and suprematist poems / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1963

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Identifier: CC-11674-11892
Scope and Contents Missing one print, "ballad," a poem dealing with the theme of sailors. Includes a poem entitled "Homage to Malevich" in which a square is made up of the words black and block printed with a bold black typeface. This poem has been critically analyzed by Stephen Scobie (Earthquakes& Explorations, Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1997, hard cover book, pp 182-189) as pivotal to the understanding of Finlay's work. "The letter to Garnier indicates also the extent to which Finlay's aesthetic was formed by the artistic movements of the early twentieth century; its reference points are Cubism, Fauvism, and Suprematism. The recourse to painting arose, the letter explains, at the point where verbal language in itself seemed inadequate: 'with the extraordinary (since wholly unexpected) sense that the syntax I had been using, the movement of language in me, at a physical level, was no longer there.' Painting - or, more generally, 'visual language' - provided (for Finlay, and...
Dates: 1963

Rapel: 10 fauve and suprematist poems / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1963

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Identifier: CC-11675-11893
Scope and Contents Includes a poem entitled "Homage to Malevich" in which a square is made up of the words black and block printed with a bold black typeface. This poem has been critically analyzed by Stephen Scobie (Earthquakes& Explorations, Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1997, hard cover book, pp 182-189) as pivotal to the understanding of Finlay's work. "The letter to Garnier indicates also the extent to which Finlay's aesthetic was formed by the artistic movements of the early twentieth century; its reference points are Cubism, Fauvism, and Suprematism. The recourse to painting arose, the letter explains, at the point where verbal language in itself seemed inadequate: 'with the extraordinary (since wholly unexpected) sense that the syntax I had been using, the movement of language in me, at a physical level, was no longer there.' Painting - or, more generally, 'visual language' - provided (for Finlay, and for many other poets at the time) a way out of this impasse: not by...
Dates: 1963

Raumungs-Ausverkauf / Hybriden Verlag., 1995

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Identifier: CC-37442-39295
Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists a large number of publications in the field without prices. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Raus Mit Der Sprache, 1969

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Identifier: CC-49056-70094
Scope and Contents

This book is an anthology of the diverse styles of poetry written by Schauffelen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Re Opening Cases / ACR., 1993

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Identifier: CC-26751-27221
Scope and Contents

This is a Lesbian anthology of Acr's poems and art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Readcycle: Twist Tie #2. No.6/Nov / Joe Blades., 1991

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Identifier: CC-03517-3580
Scope and Contents

Edited by Damian Lopes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991