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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6397 Collections and/or Records:

The Blue Sail, 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-42824-44864
Scope and Contents

This book is a selection of Finlay's poems over 40 years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Book of Benjamin / McClure, Michael ; Tanner, Wesley., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-47536-68544
Scope and Contents

This unusual book has an experimental design, e.g., a free form poem describing Benjamin, a rabbit, with 21 cards, printed in two colors on both sides which be read singly or as a universal whole in a stand-up accordion fashion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

The Book of Hours and Constellations, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-10206-10407
Scope and Contents

Edited by Jerome Rothenberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Book of Hours and Constellations, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-10207-10408
Scope and Contents

Edited by Jerome Rothenberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Book Of Humors / Semark, Jim ; Weiner L ; McClure M ; Ginsberg A., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-55495-65455
Scope and Contents

Larry Weiner did the graphics in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

The Book of Slab / Form, Joseph ; Space, Frederick ; Lyssiotis, Peter., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-11461-11677
Scope and Contents

The cover has a cut-out the shape of Australia. The author of this artist book is actually Peter Lyssiotis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Books Lost to the Fire in the Library of Alexandria Revealed Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37358-39211
Scope and Contents

In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on page 19. The shape of the poem appears to be a Greek temple with columns. The titles of the books listed in the poem are made-up raunch phrases, several well known in old and ancient jokes, e.g, "The Yellow River by I.P. Daily; The Aged Car by Denton Fender; The Random Jockstrap by Wun Hung Lo etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The boy ran up the stairs / Shekerjian, Haig; Shekerjian, Regina., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-59877-10002932
Scope and Contents

A copy of this photograph is also held by the University of Iowa Librairies Special Collections & Uniersity Archives, the only record found on the internet -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

The bpNichol Tribute / bp Nichol; L Tostevin; P Webb; B Dedora; F Wah; D McFadden; G Shikatani; M Ondaatje; P Dutton; S McCaffery; R Barreto-Rivera; Four Horsemen., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-05605-5712
Scope and Contents

This recording constitutes a memorial service to bp Nichol from writings chosen and read by his friends on Toronto's Harbourfront, December 2, 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The bpNichol Tribute / bp Nichol; L Tostevin; P Webb; B Dedora; F Wah; D McFadden; G Shikatani; M Ondaatje; P Dutton; S McCaffery; R Barreto-Rivera; Four Horsemen., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-05605-5712
Scope and Contents

This recording constitutes a memorial service to bp Nichol from writings chosen and read by his friends on Toronto's Harbourfront, December 2, 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Butterfly Gull / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42627-44644
Scope and Contents

This is the first draft of the poem that eventually became a larger conventional poem that was published in, "Laughting Time" (1980), a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Butterfly Well & 4 Other Poems / Huth, Ge(of)., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-02024-2061
Scope and Contents

Also designated as Spunaway Roon No.3 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Cardboard Junco / curry, jw., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-19663-20049
Scope and Contents

The front cover has a printed concrete poem consisting of a tautologic representation in a text over text style of the title of this book. The inside back cover has a cellophane bag filled with strips of printed text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Cement Fuck / levy, d.a. ; Berge C., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-07335-7479
Scope and Contents

The abstract expressionist cover was painted by maRa. A handwritten poem by levy appears on the back cover. This book contains all the stanzas of Chalchihuitlicue; the booklet of the same title (held by the Sackner Archive) only contains the first stanza. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Chaffinch Map of Scotland / Morgan, Edwin., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-50680-71754
Scope and Contents

The poem was written by Morgan in December 1965 and was printed in his Collected Poems 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Chicken Soup Effect / Sackner, Marvin; Faust D., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-03032-3077
Scope and Contents

This artist card was designed by Dikko Faust and Marvin Sackner who is the doctor who did initial research on the benefits of taking chicken soup for "a new cure for the common cold from your grandmother." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987