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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6404 Collections and/or Records:

Aranhao / Tavares, Salette., 1968

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Identifier: CC-01688-1724
Scope and Contents

The poem is printed in the shape of spiders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Arbormundi / Zend, Robert., 1982

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Identifier: CC-29945-31336
Scope and Contents Internet: Robert Zend (1929-1985) was a Poet, Philosopher, Multi-media artist. A published author in his homeland of Hungary by 1956, he fled to North America during the communist takeover. He used to say that his first five years living in Toronto were 'wretched', but that the next twenty he 'felt like a man without a home'. He had no immediate audience for his Hungarian books and he could not yet write fluently in English. He once wrote, "Budapest is my homeland, Toronto is my home. In Toronto I am nostalgic for Budapest. In Budapest I am nostalgic for Toronto. Everywhere else I am nostalgic for my nostalgia." Evenutally Zend did find his place in Toronto, publishing several books of poetry and humor, including From Zero to One (1973), Beyond Labels (1983) and Oab (published posthumously, 1986). He was often linked with Canada's literary elite, having friendships with and the admiration of the likes of Margaret Atwood and Northrop Frye. Glenn Gould called him "Canada's most...
Dates: 1982

Arbre de la Liberte / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12160-12384
Scope and Contents

ThIs poem is presented in the shape of a tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Archetype Press: 25.19 degrees A Mars Anthology. No.29/Spr / Gloria Kondrup, Heidrun Mumper-Drumm, editors., 2002

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Identifier: CC-52817-73954
Scope and Contents

There is duplicate print by katherine klinker included in this box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Archetype Press: Cage on Cage: Typographic Notations on the Writings of John Cage. No.9/Fall / Vance Studley, editor ; Cage J., 1993

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Identifier: CC-27067-27541
Scope and Contents

In the introduction, Studley writes, "...each designer chose a short passage from Cage's selected writings containing the composer's views on music. Each selection was then studied for possibilities of wordplay, subrosa meaning, graphic and musical n visual and aural texture, white spaces as examples of tacit in music, intonation and cacophony of sound. Solutions are based on the individual's 'reading' of the text but shaped as a typographer would arrange letters, words, spaces on a page..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Archetype Press: don't judge a book by its cover: A Typographic Collection of American Proverbs. No.41/Spr / Gloria Kondrup, editor., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48972-70010
Scope and Contents

The binding is by Alice Vaughn who left the vertical sides uncovered and used a partial slipcase to protect one vertical side. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Archetype Press: Exquisite Corpse, Los Angeles as Seen Through the Words of Raymond Chandler, Eric Stanley Gardner and Walter Mosely. No.28/Fall / Gloria Kondrup, Heidrun Mumper-Drumm, editors., 2001

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Identifier: CC-52812-73949
Scope and Contents

This book deals with excerpts from mystery writers and is unrelated to the collaborative works made by the Surrealists with the same title. The perforations of several pages are intended to simulate bullet holes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Archetype Press: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Remarks on Colour. No.25a/Spr / Vance Studley, editor., 2000

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Identifier: CC-52839-73977
Scope and Contents

The numbering of this publication did not follow the order of the others owing to an addition to the original listing by the press. This is the second book dealing with Wittgenstein's theories by the press - see No.12, 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Archetype Press: Pressing Words: Typographic Explorations on Literacy. No.7/Spr / Vance Studley, editor ; McLuhan M ; Orwell G., 1993

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Identifier: CC-27065-27539
Scope and Contents

On each page, the student has rendered a typographic composition within a rectangle, 10.2 cm x 7.2 cm (and sometimes overflowing outside these limits). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Archetype Press: The Painted Speech of Ray Bradbury. No.0/Spr / Vance Studley, editor ; Bradbury R., 1986

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Identifier: CC-27082-27556
Scope and Contents

This collection of prints, done in black, printed, typefaces of varied dimensions, was a student project. The instructor for the class was Vance Studley. The writings were excerpted from Ray Bradbury's stories. A chronologic numbering system for this publication has been adopted by the Sackner Archive; no numbering system has been used by the Archetype Press. Alice Vaughn made the bookbindings for the issues through 2009. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Archive for Berceau d'Apollinaire / Bory, Jean-Francois., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29715-31091
Scope and Contents

In the title, Bory indicates his debt to the calligrams of Apollinaire. This archive includes preliminary drawings and collages for the book with the same title as well as corrected galleys. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997