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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6397 Collections and/or Records:

th oranges uv orantangua / bissett, bill ; Beaulieu D., 2002

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Identifier: CC-54831-990261
Scope and Contents

The front and rear covers were composed by bill bissett. The book was designed Derek Beaulieu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Thalamus and Sol (proof copy) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55994-58909
Scope and Contents

A version of this concrete poem is printed as a card inThe Aylesford Review Vol.6 No.4, 1964-1965 and is also held as a separate entry as titled 'xmas poem 1964.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

THALAMUS & SOL (071264) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-56381-9999796
Scope and Contents

This depicts a square of composed of two words in capital letters THALAMUS & SOL. Houedard has composed several poems using the neurologic structure, Thalamus, as their basis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Thames & Hudson (Fall) / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Heller S., 2015

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Identifier: CC-60438-10003370
Scope and Contents

The Art of Typewriting is listed for publication with three varying illustrations of typwriter art on the front covers -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

Thanegash / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08769-8944
Scope and Contents

Thanegash refers to Thane Gash, a football player for the Cleveland Browns, who inspired Hirschman to become a football fan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[Thank You Dear Ruth and Marvin] / Alonso, Guillermo., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30555-31988
Scope and Contents

Presented to the Sackners after Alonso toured the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Thank You / Nora Quinlan., 1991

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Identifier: CC-03729-3800
Scope and Contents

Given to the Sackners after her first visit to the Archive. The poem objects are cut-outs that spell "THANK & YOU." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Thank You - Not An Hanky / Stuart Walker., 1990

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Identifier: CC-00219-227
Scope and Contents

Work includes letter of thanks for tour of the Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Thank You Seeds / Anonymous., 1984

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Identifier: CC-43774-45870
Scope and Contents

The printed envelope repeatedly reads, thank you gracias danke grazie merci thank you. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Thanks, 2000

 Item — Box 134: [Barcode: 31858072457850]
Identifier: CC-44487-46637
Scope and Contents

The word THANKS is incised on the top surface of the orange paper weight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Thanks / Cook, Ralph; levy da ; Patchen K; Patchen M., 1982

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Identifier: CC-18806-19183
Scope and Contents

Letter typed such that a large blank space spells thanks when the reader squints. Cook thanks Marvin Sackner for sending him the Archive listing and mentions d.a. levy material and a his visit to Miriam Patchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Thanks Thanks Thanks] / Harty, Beryn; Harty, Rick., 1993

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Identifier: CC-09591-9782
Scope and Contents

This a "thank you card" for an evening's tour of the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

That Fucking Line That------------ / curry, jw ; lefler P ; Laba M ; Bennett JM ; Evason G., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20298-20695
Scope and Contents

The manuscripts for this book are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

That Fucking Line That (drafts and related materials) / curry, jw; Basmajian S; Venright S; Bennett JM., 1985 - 1992

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Identifier: CC-20297-20694
Scope and Contents

Includes many previously published works on unbound pages, viz., These, Reflecting on War, A Mystery, Grecian Turn, Invocation, Too Collage (aka & they came, dancing all alone, On Waking this Morning, DShake A Foot, Instructions For Use, The Losing and The Basmajian Variations in A (minors). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985 - 1992

That Fucking Line That (final draft) / curry, jw; lefler P; andley G; Laba M; lore q; Hood W; Bennett JM; Evason G., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20299-20696
Scope and Contents

These unbound pages were used for the final printing of the book published by Writers Forum. On the verso of some pages, handwritten, ink and graphite documentation as to their prior publication is provided. The manuscript includes ink drawings of the poems, "These" and "The Evolution of English." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The All-Union Day of the Shock Worker / Torres, Edwin., 2001

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Identifier: CC-45985-48691
Scope and Contents This is the first edition of the book that is now in its third printing. Publishers Weekly: "AYYY: soy bilingual... pero BILINGUALISSIMO!... de nada!" screams the 18-point sans serif font of "A Nuyo-Futurist's Manfestiny," the Blast-like final section of this frenetic yet elegantly conceived collection. A deft recombination of digital media and information arts, mock multiculturalist imperatives, performance and sound poetry and post-Language subjective lyricism, Shock Worker is one more unexpected twist in the career of Torres, a New York poet who was once associated with the performance poets of the Nuyorican cafe. While some of the poems resemble exploded bilingual eye charts designed by El Lissitzsky or astrological diagrams for deviant religions, this book has lovely quiet moments; the delicate lyric "Separatist Invasion" is a little mantra against the alienated sensibility: "There have been a thousand sightings of people I used to know. Separations of copies of who it is they...
Dates: 2001