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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6487 Collections and/or Records:

Reading from his Poem: The Gates of Paradise / David Daniels., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-38021-39907
Scope and Contents

The disc records Daniels reading his poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Reading / Luckam, Lawrence., 1978

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Identifier: CC-07596-7741
Scope and Contents

Because of the locations of the perforations, paging through this book gives different meanings as new words appear from old letters and new ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Reading Writing Interfaces: from the digital to the bookbound / Emerson, Lori ; Houedard DS ; Lloyd A ; McLuhan M ; Higgins D ; Williams E ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Pignatari D ; Olson C ; Solt ME ; Garnier P ; Johnson R ; McCaffery S ; Zurbrugg N ; bissett b ; Duguay R ; Scobie S ; Dickenson E ; Sackner MA., 2014

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Identifier: CC-59602-10002680
Scope and Contents The Sackner Archive lent Houedard typewriter poems for reproduction in this book.AMAZON.COM: "Lori Emerson examines how interfaces"”from today's multitouch devices to yesterday's desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson's self-bound fascicle volumes"”mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries.Reading the means of production as well as the creative works they produce, Emerson demonstrates that technologies are more than mere tools and that the interface is not a neutral border between writer and machine but is in fact a collaborative creative space. Reading Writing Interfaces begins with digital literature's defiance of the alleged invisibility of ubiquitous computing and multitouch in the early twenty-first century and then looks back at the ideology of the user-friendly graphical user...
Dates: 2014

Real i dad / Pino, Francisco., 1977

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Identifier: CC-31142-32609
Scope and Contents

Pino repetitively prints the Spanish word, "como," its derivatives, and its letters (como, omo, mo, o) in grids and partial grids so that by the end of the book only a single period remains. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Rebellious, 1980

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-21333-21744
Scope and Contents

The first of C. Bellaert's "n-books" all of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[rectangles - handles] (270167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08694-8867
Scope and Contents

The two red square and the two blue squares are made with@ symbols. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Recursive Spirals / Harris, Ken., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34891-36602
Scope and Contents

The book consists of short poems, one to a page, and a single concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Recursive text / Mayer, Peter., 1988

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Identifier: CC-06597-6716
Scope and Contents

The letters of the words of this poem are formed by squares containing micrographic texts. The typography makes reading difficult. The first two word read, "Thank You." The last two words are illegible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Red Dor [Red Door] / Steen, Vagn., 1963

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Identifier: CC-33337-34975
Scope and Contents

The Danish words "red" and "dor" are superimposed in large black typefaces and set upon the red background of this print. The image is also reproduced in Steen's book "riv selv," that is also held by the Sackner Archive. *WEB Steen 2002. According to Steen, this silkscreen was printed in 1963. He was uncertain as to whether it was done in 1963 or 1964. The poem is mirrored so that the viewer can also read it from the verso. Steen takes the Danish word for red (ROD), and mirrors the first letter, If the reader views it from behind, and gets the Danish word for door (DOR). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Red Road, 1954

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Identifier: CC-16099-16442
Scope and Contents

This collage from the early period of Denny's work relates to graphic design and with his interest in letter pictures. After the mid-sixties, the employment of text in images disappeared and his works became constructivistic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

Red White Blue / Rowan, John., 1970

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Identifier: CC-39239-41185
Scope and Contents

Each page contains an illustration with a single word title that is a contradiction to the illustration e.g., the letters in the word together are scattered around the page and the illustration for the word hand is a foot and vice-versa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Rede de Canalizacao , 1987

 Item — Box Adl-Agu: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-24448-24900