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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6397 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
Identifier: CC-03033-3078
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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Club Ha Ha Gate, 2001

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-37353-39205
Scope and Contents In Daniels' book, "The Gates of Paradise," this poem is printed on pages 109 and 110. The shape is that of a deer with antlers perched upon an intricate goblet that might have been made adapted from Beatrice Ward's "The Crystal Goblet." Daniels describes his poems prints in a personal communication to Marvin Sackner as follows: "Its kind of like walking up to a painting and examining the brushstrokes. The fonts in giant form are"new" and "strange" in a way. Also they make a design of their own. Plus I raise and lower fonts to make curves. People see them as if they never saw them before. Good old Times Roman invented by the Romans to incise sharp shadows for readability on their stone cut signs and developed by The London Times in the 19th Century to acheive clarity while cramming words tight in columns has a new life! Some young people I met at Epoetry 2001 in Buffalo this Spring seem to see me as a kind of "hero" who has "figured out how to get people to read his poems hiding...
Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Collected Poems / Merton, Thomas ; Lax R., 1977

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Identifier: CC-30795-32241
Scope and Contents

This is the second printing of the book. The final section consists of 12 concrete, typewriter poems. The Sackner Archive holds the originals of HURLUB and BROnze fasHIONs that are reproduced in this section. It also holds varients of NORMS that is printed in this section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Collected Poems of Earle Birney: Volume I & Volume II , 1975

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Identifier: CC-22429-22853
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

The Collected Works 1977-1979 / Fagin, Rebel., 1979

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Identifier: CC-11147-11362
Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Colors Of Rhetoric: Problems In The Relation Between Modern Literature And Painting / Steiner, Wendy ; Arp H ; Apollinaire G ; Balla G ; Breton A ; Carroll L ; Chopin H ; Duchamp M ; Fahlstrom O ; Finlay IH ; Gid R ; Gomringer E ; Gris J ; Joyce J ; Kriwet F ; Lewis WP ; Marinetti FT ; DeCampos A ; Picabia F ; Picasso P ; Pignatari D ; Pound E ; Simmias of Rhodes ; Tzara T ; cummings ee ; Kolar J ; Claus CF ; Kamimura H ; Ruhm G., 1982

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Identifier: CC-53763-628342
Scope and Contents

Steiner integrates Anglo-American art history with East Europe semiotics and art theory to clarify the theoretical issues that attend the study of inter-artistic relationships and 'illuminate a broad range of specific works, genres and movements. She discusses the work of Pieter Breughal, Henri Rousseau, Edward Gorey, M C Escher, Rene Magritte, Jackson Pollock, William Carlos Willliams, Gertrude Stein, Lewis Carroll and e e cummings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Complete Films / Costa, Corrado ; Paul Vangelisti, translator ; Baruchello GF., 1983

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Identifier: CC-54550-666668
Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Computer's First Christmas Card / Morgan, Edwin., 1979

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Identifier: CC-28194-29360
Scope and Contents

This card prints combination words in a vertical listing as a spoof on the powers of a computer, e.g., |jollymerry|hollyberry|jollyberry|... as |MERRYCHR|YSANTHEMUM|. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Computer's First Translation / Morgan, Edwin, editor; Cobbing B; Furnival J; Parfitt W; Finch P; Morgan E., 1979

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Identifier: CC-32393-33964
Scope and Contents

The card depict unreadable poems that might have been produced, according to Morgan's imagination, by bugs in computers' first programs on making translations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Concrete Night / Ferlinghetti, Lawrence., 1991

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Identifier: CC-12844-13131
Scope and Contents

Text reads DEATH surrounded by night, light, delight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Concrete Tell / curry, jw., 1984

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Identifier: CC-30410-10002835
Scope and Contents

The five poems in this book are formed by fragmented letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Cow Jumped over the Moon: The Writing and Reading of Poetry, 1972

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Identifier: CC-21115-21524
Scope and Contents

Most of this book is presented as an interview of Birney. The is one concrete poem example in this book dealing with autobiography and critical analysis of poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

The Cure / Brunsdon, Jyoti., 1992

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Identifier: CC-23387-23829
Scope and Contents This book was designed by Mike Hudson and type set by Jadwiga Jarvis. In Jarvis' essay on letterpress printing and documentation of the books published by Wayzgoose, she writes the following. It was presented to the press as a typed manuscript but careful rereadings revealed that the story was a sonata form. The basic elements which are a exposition, development and recapitulation. In the exposition, the emphasis is on contrast (even conflict) and the development and recapitulationare areas of tonal flux , usually a modulating or changing key. Brunsdon used the sonata form to indicate one woman's passage from sanity to madness. Jarvis and Hudson "set the text in a mixture of sans serif fonts (contrast & conflict) and printed the book in three shades of olive green (modulation & key changes). The lightest of the lines dealing with the protagonist's innermost thoughts, a medium shade for the composed,impersonal front she presented to the world, and an almost-but-not-quite...
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Definitive History of Iguanacon / Arthurs, Bruce., 1980

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Identifier: CC-25644-26102
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Demolished Man (reprint) / Bester, Alfred., 1988

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Identifier: CC-23794-24242
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The East Village: A Poetic Inventory / Kostelanetz, Richard., 1975

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Identifier: CC-50370-71438
Scope and Contents

This unpublished work is a verbal map of the East Village, New York City. It is written in the same style as Kostelanetz's "Portraits From Memory," a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Easy Personal Expensive Colorful Unique Compact Wonder Love Book / Depew, Wally., 1975

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Identifier: CC-58114-10001365
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Egyptian Stroboscope (2nd Printing) / levy, d.a. ; Wagner, D.r.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-52341-73464
Scope and Contents

Most of the copies of the first printing were confiscated by the Cleveland Police in the notorious raid of Jim Lowell's book store in 1966. This second printing is "lightly revised." It differs from the first edition by most pages consist of white rather than colored paper stock with less overall pages but stilll a rarity. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Eiffel Tower, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13314-13615
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print from the sixties -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

[The Eiffel Tower] / John Furnival., 1967

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Identifier: CC-12238-12462
Scope and Contents

This is an extra copy of a poem object that also is included on Revue Ou No.30-31. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

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