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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6488 Collections and/or Records:

[Second Draft for Richard Truhlar's Ten Sephardic Translations] / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19726-20113
Scope and Contents

This consists of preliminary sketches for the work that was published in can't afford no Kodak Instamatik Instamatik Vol.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

See Art Here / Olbrich, Jurgen O.; Depew W., 2014

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Identifier: CC-58957-10002150
Scope and Contents

While visiting the Sackners JUrgen Olbrich created these three collaged pages using photcopied texts of Wally Depew from works in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

See the Old Lady Decently, 1975

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Identifier: CC-32669-34255
Scope and Contents

This is semi-biographical novel of Johnson's mother. It was last novel written by Johnson who committed suicide shortly after its release. Michael Bakewell wrote an introductory essay that provides an explanation of the story. The shaped, concrete poems portray a breast as a metaphor for the cause of Johnson's mother's death from breast cancer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

See / Walker, Todd., 1978

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Identifier: CC-32338-33905
Scope and Contents

This book consists of colored, photographs of female nudes that have been altered in the development process along with documentary text. The front cover and pages adjacent to the cover print a concrete poem, "See." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Seeing Things / Froman, Robert., 1977

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Identifier: CC-11764-11983
Scope and Contents

Froman defines seeing poems (concrete poems) as the outline of a light bulb which "...happens when when words take a shape that helps them to turn on a light in someone's mind." A few poems relating to breathing are included in the book such as "Superstink." This concrete poem depicts a bus at a stop, a start-up, followed by an engine backfire with a big cloud of pollutants released into the atmosphere causing a cacophony of cough, gasp, choke, sneeze, snuffle etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Seeing Voices / Mancini, Donato., 2002

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Identifier: CC-49552-70600
Scope and Contents

The text was produced from conversations overheard in an undisclosed area. As such, it is akin to Martin Wilner'a artist books that record text and images from passengers on the NY subway trains. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Seeing Your Meaning: Concrete Poetry in Language and Education 2nd Edition / Cook, Stanley., 1979

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Identifier: CC-19825-20212
Scope and Contents

The letter is addressed to Eugen Gomringer. Cook analyzes the impact of concrete poetry on the sensibilities of children. This is the second edition of the book first published in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Seeing Your Meaning: Concrete Poetry in Language and Education / Cook, Stanley., 1975

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Identifier: CC-19824-20211
Scope and Contents

Cook analyzes the impact of concrete poetry on the sensibilities of children. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Sehgange, 1964

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Identifier: CC-37410-39263
Scope and Contents

This work is photographically reproduced in Hirsal & Grogerova's "Experimentalni Poezie," page 221, in Novisimo Poesia/69, and in Schritte No.8 1964. In the latter, the image is oriented at a 180 degrees difference from the original. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964