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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6506 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
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

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

[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

[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

The Evolution Of English / curry, jw., 1979

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Identifier: CC-19873-20261
Scope and Contents

From the top of this poem to the bottom, curry creates progressive disintegration of the hand printed "word" to the written "word" to illegible calligraphic markings to abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Evolution Of English / curry, jw., 1981

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Identifier: CC-19874-20262
Scope and Contents

This is the another version of this poem that was also written in 1979. Both versions are held by the Sackner Archive. In a vertical format, the word, "word" is first printed, then written, then scrawled, and finally rendered illegible as the handwriting progressively disintegrates. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

[The Evolution of Surprise] / Anonymous., 1970

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Identifier: CC-26106-26568
Scope and Contents

These poems, which have ink markings and handwriting by Bob Cobbing, might have been used for publication or performance. They were written by an American, judging from the sentence and language structure and references are made to the Bronx and NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Fall of the Tower of Babel, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13290-13591
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1995

The Fantasy Childhood Reset / Jenkins, Philip., 1971

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Identifier: CC-48298-69323
Scope and Contents

One of the poems in this book attempts to depict a Mark Rothko painting by means of typewriter poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Fantasy Childhood Reset / Jenkins, Philip., 1971

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Identifier: CC-08303-8466
Scope and Contents

One of the poems in this book attempts to depict a Mark Rothko painting by means of typewriter poetry. The loose sheets include a letter to Peter Finch, erratta in the book, and typed manifesto reproduced on the back cover. The author currently lives in Welshpool, Wales. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Fitzroy Poems, 1989

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Identifier: CC-04672-4759
Scope and Contents

The poems for the most part are written in the Creole dialect of the Fitzroy region of Australia. Pi O's Christian name is Peter Oustabasides. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Flood 1st Editon / Martin, Stephen-Paul., 1987

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Identifier: CC-57547-10000823
Scope and Contents

The story is a modern day adaptation of Noah's flood of biblical times, with a political surrealistic comnentary on Ronald Reagan. This is the second revised edition first published in 1987 by Stephen-Paul Martin -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Flood / Martin, Stephen-Paul ; Polkinhorn H ; Royal R., 1992

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Identifier: CC-06287-6402
Scope and Contents

The story is a modern day adaptation of Noah's flood of biblical times, with a political surrealistic comnentary on Ronald Reagan. This is the second revised edition first published in 1987 by Stephen-Paul Martin -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Fool Still Looking at the Same Thing [2] / Basmajian, Shaunt., 1988

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Identifier: CC-53023-74167
Scope and Contents

This version of the poem has slight differences from the first version, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Garden and the Revolution / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992

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Identifier: CC-10896-11106
Scope and Contents

The curators, J.B.Ravenal and A.Miller-Keller state that Finlay "engages classical forms and ideas as an ethical and philosophical means by which to bring present culture into sharper focus... The exhibition presents two central themes in Finlay's work: the garden tradition and the French Revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Gates of Paradise / Daniels, David ; Ouspensky P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-37141-38984
Scope and Contents John Strausbaugh, writing in New York Press, August 2-8, 2000, Volume 13, Number 31 commented on this book and the author as follows. "Kenneth Goldsmith came by the office to show me a book of poetry he knew I'd appreciate. Not a normal book of poetry, and not published. It's a black ledger book, fat with 394 8-1/2-by- 11 pages containing more than 350 poems. And not just any poems. These poems form shapes, black & white computer printout silhouettes of birds and men, stars and trees, urns and amphorae; an elephant of words, a poem shaped like a stiff penis, one shaped like a toilet in the White House, others shaped like a rectal thermometer, a church, a lemon, a seal, a snake, a vacuum cleaner, a flowering vagina, a winged griffin, a diagram of a traffic accident, a mushroom cloud, a Mixmaster, a gun, a New Yorker "pissing on the sidewalk." Apollinaire and the Chinese pictograms called Phoenix Dragon writing are the most obvious antecedents. Some are as funny and fantastical...
Dates: 2000