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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6506 Collections and/or Records:

Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century / Perloff, Marjorie ; Adorno T ; Andrews B ; Antin D ; Barthes R ; Bayard C ; Beckett S ; Bee S ; Benjamin W ; Bense M ; Bernstein C ; bissett b ; Cage J ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Chopin H ; cummings ee ; Debord G ; Donguy J ; Dworkin C ; Fahlstrom O ; Finlay IH ; Goldsmith K ; Gomringer E ; Jandl E ; MacLow J ; Mallarme S ; Marinetti FT ; Perec G ; Pignatari D ; Silliman R ; Wittgenstein L ; Nadar ; Khlebnikov V ; Howe S., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52165-73284
Scope and Contents Dust jacket description: What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information"” a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, "originality" begins to take a back seat to what can be done with other people's words"”framing, citing, recycling, and otherwise mediating available words and sentences, and sometimes entire texts. Marjorie Perloff here explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of "unoriginal" writing. Paradoxically, she argues, such citational and often constraint-based poetry is more accessible and, in a sense, "personal" than was the hermetic poetry of the 1980s and 90s.Perloff traces this poetics of "unoriginal genius" from its paradigmatic work, Benjamin's encyclopedic Arcades Project, a book largely made up of citations. She discusses the processes of choice, framing, and reconfiguration in the work of Brazilian...
Dates: 2010

Unpublished: [MAN AT TYPEWRITER] [57] / Smith, William Jay., 1958

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Identifier: CC-57483-10000777
Scope and Contents

The image is of a man who enjoys sitting at his typewriter drawing pictures of people sitting at their typewriters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Unpublished: [O O O O O O!] [54] / Smith, William Jay., 1958

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Identifier: CC-57480-10000773
Scope and Contents

Six typed O's are spaced on five typed lines. The last O is folllowed by an exclamation point. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Unpublished: [O! O! O! O! O! O! O! O! O!] [55] / Smith, William Jay., 1958

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Identifier: CC-57481-10000774
Scope and Contents

Nine typed O! are spaced in a face-like configuration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Unpublished: [ON THE IMMINENT 1] [32] / Smith, William Jay., 1958

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Identifier: CC-57453-10000744
Scope and Contents

This is the first version of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Unpublished: [ON THE IMMINENT 2] [33] / Smith, William Jay., 1958

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Identifier: CC-57454-10000745
Scope and Contents

This is a modified and simplified version of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Unpublished: [WOMAN AT BEAUTY PARLOR] [56] / Smith, William Jay., 1958

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Identifier: CC-57482-10000775
Scope and Contents

The image is of a woman who enjoys sitting under a hair dryer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Unsitten / Kriwet, Ferdinand., 1961

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Identifier: CC-37755-39633
Scope and Contents

The letters of this circular concrete poem were rubberstamped and then filled in with black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Untersuchungen zur Konkreten Dichtung / Kessler, Dieter ; Achleitner F ; Apollinaire G ; Artmann HC ; Azeredo R ; Ball H ; Bayer K ; Belloli C ; Bense M ; Bill M ; Bowler B ; Braga E ; Bremer C ; Brecht B ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Castillejo JL ; Khlebnikov V ; Chopin H ; Cobbing B ; Curso G ; cummings ee ; Dencker KP ; Diacono M ; Dias-Pino W ; VanDoesburg T ; Dohl R ; Duchamp M ; Fahlstrom O ; Finlay IH ; Gappmayr H ; Garnier I ; Garnier P ; Gibbs M ; Gomringer E ; Gosewitz L ; Grogerova B ; Grunewald JL ; Gullar F ; Havel V ; Heidsieck B ; Heissenbuttel H ; Hirsal J ; Houedard DS ; Huelsenbeck R ; Jandl E ; Joyce J ; Karst JR ; Kolar J ; Kriwet F ; Kruchenykh A ; Lax R ; Mayakovsky V ; Mallarme S ; Marcucci L ; Marvell A ; Massin R ; Maurus H ; Miccini E ; Mon F ; Nezval V ; Niccolai G ; Novak L ; Niikuni S ; VanOstaijen P ; Picasso P ; Pignatari D ; Pinto LA ; Porphyrii PO ; Pound E ; Puttenham G ; Ruhm G ; Scheerbart P ; Schwitters K ; Seghers P ; Simmias of Rhodes ; Solt J ; Spatola A ; Sterne L ; Teige K ; Theocritus ; Webern A ; Williams E ; Xisto P., 1976

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Identifier: CC-53782-56907
Scope and Contents

This book includes a bibliography of 2099 sources which at the end of the list, Kessler concludes with "to be continued." However, the latter never happened!This book is also designated Band 30 od Deutsche Studien -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976