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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6400 Collections and/or Records:

Wendysstomack: Letter to Paul. No.4/Dec / jw curry., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-00395-406
Scope and Contents

These eight prints depict a progression in deconstruction such that only a partial visual image remains from the original dense tautolgical text. The duplicate copy was mailed to Jake Berry from Greg Evason. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Wer heute / Elsas, Wolfgang., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36797-38627
Scope and Contents

Wolfgang Elsas cards are grouped together as a card set. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

We(re)2 Creatures of Nature / Leirner, Betty., 1980 - 1990

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Identifier: CC-07306-7449
Scope and Contents

The text is printed in a subtle white tone so that its reading is accomplished by looking through several pages. This layout also gives optical imagery effects dependent upon reflection from ambient lighting. The gloves are included for handling the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980 - 1990

W.H. Davies Nailsworth Series: T Is for Time... / Furnival, John., 1996

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13338-13639
Scope and Contents

Consists of two columns of poetic expressions beginning with the letter T or the word T. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

What about what / curry, jw., 1985

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Identifier: CC-20742-21146
Scope and Contents

This is an unpublished article submitted to What magazine that contrasts bill bissett's book, "what," with the imaginary contents of What Magazine. bissett's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. The original typed manuscript was never returned from the magazine to curry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

What about What / curry, jw; bissett b., 1985

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Identifier: CC-20627-21029
Scope and Contents

This is an unpublished article written for the first issue of What Magazine. curry compared bissett's book, "What" to an imagined magazine of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

What I Did This Summer / Number Seventeen., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44090-46208
Scope and Contents

Number Seventeen is a design study in NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

What. No.7/Nov-Dec / Kevin Connolly, Jason Sherman, editors ; Smith J ; Ross S ; Nichol bp ; curry jw ; Drumbolis N., 1986

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Identifier: CC-52196-73317
Scope and Contents jw curry contributes an article dealing with the bibliographic details of Gronk. Nicky Drumbolis writes about jw curry's printing methods in an article summarizing Industrial Sabotage Issues 1-38 and other issues of his handwork as follows. "Making things with type and paper is for some people an irresistible temptation. One guy gets a job, buys an old press, some type, and all the etceteras, goes about making what he can, nice things. The other guy, street poet, bums an Atlas Office Printing Outfit #3 from someone, scrounges up some paper, begins by setting his own lines. This is the same thing -compulsive. In seven years, John Curry, with the sometime help of Peggy Lefler, has produced 376 different things. Most of them have been handset and handstamped using various rubber types. After the initial series of 13 pieces begun in Vancouver in 1978, most of them his own poems, Curry decided to explore the technic of the medium publishing the work of other writers-to date, over 100....
Dates: 1986

What Speaking the Language Tells the Japanese / Kerr, Thomas., 1989

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Identifier: CC-07789-7942
Scope and Contents

Consists of head and shoulders portrait made up of calligraphic texts to illustrate letter to the editor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989