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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6488 Collections and/or Records:

Sonety / Wernisch, Ivan; Rudolph, Pavel; Hula, Jiri; Vokolek, Vaclav; Rimbaud A; Baudelaire C., 1968

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Identifier: CC-50430-71498
Scope and Contents

The photograph by Vokolek depicts the outside of a stone building in Viet Nam. Uncertain whether this is part of the portfolio or an add-in. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Songs All over the Place / Cobbing, Bob, editor., 1986

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Identifier: CC-17535-17901
Scope and Contents

These poems were written by students at Epping Forest High School, Loughton, Essex, when Bob Cobbing was the visiting poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Songs of the Earth, 1970

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Identifier: CC-32036-33567
Scope and Contents

Johnson writes in the introduction, "These poems are listenings, as poems must listen and sing simultaneously. They are a progression of hearings of Mahler's 'Song of the Earth' on records, in concert, and in my head."The only difference between this disavowed edition and the regular edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive is the inclusion of one rather than three blank pages at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Songs of the Earth, 1970

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Identifier: CC-32037-33568
Scope and Contents

Johnson writes in the introduction, "These poems are listenings, as poems must listen and sing simultaneously. They are a progression of hearings of Mahler's 'Song of the Earth' on records, in concert, and in my head."The only difference between this regular edition and the disavowed edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive is the inclusion of three pages rather than one blank page at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Songsignals / Cobbing, Bob., 1971

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Identifier: CC-17539-17905
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter Finch. This is issue No.1 of Second Aeon Folder series; the second and final number, J.P. Wards's "From Alphabet to Logos," is also held by the Sackner Archive. In the introduction, Cobbing describes how he altered the found poems in this work to their final form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Sonic Water / Houedard, Dom Sylvester, editor; cummings ee; Morgan E; Gomringer E; Jandl E; Finlay IH., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55333-58854
Scope and Contents

The distribution to others of this work is unknown. The original typed poem, "Sonic Water" is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Sonnet No.13 / De Araujo, Avelino., 1994

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Identifier: CC-60510-10003424
Scope and Contents

Taken from Archiveof O!!Zone 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Sonnets in Concrete: Volume One / Brilliantes, Jos C.., 1968

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Identifier: CC-23354-23796
Scope and Contents

Brilliantes used typewriter characters to create distinctive shapes from the characters alone, viz. cats, dogs, lions, tigers, giraffes, bedbugs, girls with hula hoops, farmers, toothbrushes, scissors, pans etc. His images are quite unique in typewriter art and poetry and there are no other examples like his in the Sackner Archive. This book is stored in the same portfolio box as Bridgwater's "Typograms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Sontai sidaie (The sun is setting) / Miroshnychenko, Mykola., 1985

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Identifier: CC-31752-33264
Scope and Contents

The poem is dated 13.04.1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Sophisticated Selection / Leiber, Steven., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35396-37131
Scope and Contents

This catalogue designed by Rose Holtz reprints components and announcements of paintings, sculptures, drawing, photographs, music, nature, criticism, poetry and conceptual art for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Sorry / Decie, Joe., 1999

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Identifier: CC-41449-43434
Scope and Contents

The message that is rubberstamped as separate word(s) on each page reads "Sorry i haven't mailed anything 1/2 to you for a while i've been too busy please accept this book in exchange for your art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

SOS / Balestrini, Nanni., 1964

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Identifier: CC-27236-27728
Scope and Contents

The collage composed of different typefaces and dimensions dealing with a political theme is typical of Balestrini's ouevre in the early sixties which has been much reproduced in concrete poetry anthologies of its early period. It is reproduced on page 162 of his 2006 exhibition catalogue, "Con gli occhi del linguaggio." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964