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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6487 Collections and/or Records:

Rune 6: Figures of Speech / Kempton, Karl., 1992

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Identifier: CC-56253-9999697
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Rune 6: Figures of Speech / Kempton, Karl ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1993

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Identifier: CC-08047-8207
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: to speak / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56327-9999751
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 7: Poem, A Mapping / Kempton, Karl., 1993

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Identifier: CC-08046-8206
Scope and Contents

Each page contains a typewriter poem using the word, "poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Rune Tune Rune Tune... / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-52958-74101
Scope and Contents

One of these ten colored rubberstampings depict has smudged words of Rune and Tune printed in an optical image style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

runel (240664) [black] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55827-9999345
Scope and Contents

The word, 'runel' may be 'runnel,' meaning from Old Englsh, a revulet or brook or a narrow channel for water. The overall image may depict a surrealistic landscape since its top border depicts clouds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Ruscha / Helmes, Scott., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30813-32259
Scope and Contents

The poem is based on the titles of the bookworks of artist Ed Ruscha. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

RUSH: What Fuckan Theory; A Study Uv Language, 2012

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Identifier: CC-55936-9999403
Scope and Contents The first edition of this work (also held by the Sackner Archive) was published as Gronk Vol.8, No.8 in 1972. This present edition has been edited with notes and comments by Derek Beauleau and Gregory Betts.Amazon.com: The publication of bill bissett's RUSH: WHAT FUCKAN THEORY; A STUDY UV LANGUAGE in 1972 firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out of print for 40 years"”and reissued here complete with an interview with bissett about the book's creation and a critical afterword by derek beaulieu and Gregory Betts"”RUSH embodies a collagist, multi-conscious approach to art that recognizes no division between the work and the world, the author and his sexuality, his breath, his influences; the theory and the practice. Arguing that "a new line has started," RUSH captures the urgency of a new model of production that resists the closure and mastery of any one mind. It is an elegant rejection of aesthetic ego and all presumptions of authority. RUSH: WHAT FUCKAN THEORY;...
Dates: 2012

[Russian Title] / Panji, Eter., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41135-43116
Scope and Contents

The handcut perforations on the pages cause the reader to read targeted texts on the adjacent pages to produce the effect of a 3-D book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Folkestad, Jennifer ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39489-41445
Scope and Contents

This publication was a senior project by the author for the OSU Department of Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication. It was prepared as a study for designing an area in a potential future space for special collections in the rare book library. Included are reproductions of "The Altered Page" and "Networking" catalogues of exhibitions from the Sackner Archive, a history of the Archive, photographs and an illustrated article by Tom Austin. Also included is a detailed research section on concrete poetry. A portion of the book concerns the design of a library space for the Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

S Press Tonband: Balling Buddha. No.38-39 / John Giorno., 1975

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Identifier: CC-49183-70223
Scope and Contents

The poems deal with the Vietnam War, homoeroticism, heteroeroticism, and Buddhist religion. Stored with Giorno material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975