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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6515 Collections and/or Records:

Verbotetture: Architetture di Parole Nello Spazio della Pagina, 2001

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Identifier: CC-35918-37682
Scope and Contents

Verbotecture is a neologism meaning a construction of words in the space of the page. This book is an anthology of previously published works of Lora-Totino dating from 1966 to 1998 They "identify with Concrete Poetry, but with the need of an accurate relation among the semiotic-graphical values and the meaning of the poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Verbum Parola Mot Word / La Rocca, Ketty., 1966

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Identifier: CC-37425-39278
Scope and Contents

This piece, reproduced in yellow letters on a blue background, was the front piece in the catalogue of La Rocca's works at Galleria Carini, 1989. The photograph verso is rubberstamped, "ketti la rocca, via de serrogli 66, firenze" and hand dated '66. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Vergessen Versprechen / Gerz, Jochen., 1968

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Identifier: CC-27455-28503
Scope and Contents

The two German words that mean in English 'forget & promises' are printed in right side up and in reverse right side down. Thus, the poem is read, 'forget promises - promises forget.' This typing is designated No.492 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Verisimilitude / spence, pete ; Aisbett, Bev., 1987

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Identifier: CC-35538-37278
Scope and Contents

The one word poems in this book consist of words that have the letter, 'v.' The poems are handwritten and the 'v' is often written in a visual way to bring out the sense of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Verklarte Nacht / UU, David., 1965

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Identifier: CC-48433-69460
Scope and Contents

This poem first appeared in the book, "Gideon Music," when the poet was writing under the name of David W. Harris. It was inspired by the music of Schonberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Vernetzung / Daniel, Peter., 1992 - 1993

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Identifier: CC-27723-28828
Scope and Contents

Daniel utilized mostly letraset Hebrew letters of various size and typographic syles to create an abstract composition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992 - 1993

Veronicavan / Forrest, Veronica ; McCarthy, Cavan., 1967

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Identifier: CC-11400-11616
Scope and Contents The concrete poems were composed solely by Cavan McCarthy in this catalogue. The 'Poem for Veronica'is one of a series based upon the names of people McCarthy had met. This poem uses the letter groups 'ver' 'on' 'a.' Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947--1975) was a poet and a critical theorist. She grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. She studied at the Universities of Liverpool and Cambridge, and later taught at the Universities of Leicester and Birmingham. Her critical study Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry was published by Manchester University Press in 1978. Her poetry collections included Identi-kit (1967), the award-winning Language-Games (1971) and the posthumous On the Periphery (1976). Subsequent gatherings of her work include Collected Poems and Translations (1990) and Selected Poems (1999). A further Collected Poems, minus the translations, was published in 2008 by Shearsman Books in association with Allardyce Book. Forrest-Thomson died tragically in April 1975...
Dates: 1967

Vers la Poesie Totale, 1993

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Identifier: CC-02700-2743
Scope and Contents

The chapters dealing with the world-wide concrete poetry movement include Experimental Poetry and Poetic Experiences, Technical Styles, Alphabets and Calligraphy, Silences of Movement, Constellation, Text/Surface, and Bibliography. This is the 2nd expanded edition of the original published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Versek, Kepversek, 1988

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Identifier: CC-34024-35700
Scope and Contents

This book is an anthology of poems by Zend. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

VERSOUNVERSO / del Barco, Pablo., 1979

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Identifier: CC-21558-21969
Scope and Contents

n.3 in Nueva Escritura series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Vert Rouge, 1982

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Identifier: CC-15715-16044
Scope and Contents

Trou translates as hole; verge translates as penis. Vert (painted green) is green and rouge is red (painted red) - a double anagram. The work is stamped "Ypudu, Anagrammiste." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Verzamelde Weken (Collected Works): Boek 1 / Van Essche, Leon., 2014

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Identifier: CC-59897-10002950
Scope and Contents This book was composed and introduced by Wilfried Wynants. It is a collection of all of Van Essche's literary and poetic works in chronologic order. Book 1 consists of Part I: Collected verses from the years 1941, '42, '43 and '44. Part II: Collected poems 1950-1960. Part III: Poems published in magazines for Labris. Part: IV: publications of combined poems. Part V.: collected poems published after 1957. Part VI. Unpublished poems after 1962. Book 2 consists of Part VII: Poems published in LABRIS 1962-1973. Part VIII: poems published in KOKO 1975-1979. Part IX: poems published in BUITENBEENS. Part X: poems published in TEMPUS FUGIT 1985-2000. Part X: CD-ROM - selection of works known more than 1250From 1941 to 1960, he composed solely conventional poems. In about 1960, he composed 100 abstract line drawings with ink that were divided into 10 sets each containing 10 drawings entitled, "Sintetis Vizjoen of Lyrintis (SE)." One such set is helld by the Sackner Artchive and differs from...
Dates: 2014

Verzamelde Weken (Collected Works): Boek 2 / Van Essche, Leon., 2014

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Identifier: CC-59898-10002951
Scope and Contents

This book was composed and introduced by Wilfried Wynants and is a continuation of the collection of all of van Escche's literary and poetic work in chronologic order. Its first section consists of Van Essche's "typed artpoe" to the four numbers of the first year (1962) of the "Labris" periodical. The dvd contans colored images and others not printed in the two books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014