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Concrete poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6402 Collections and/or Records:

As Is or with / curry, jw., 1985

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Identifier: CC-19701-20088
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curry drew the word "received" three times in different fragmented forms.The poem was published by Gronk/Psycho Potato. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

As Is or with / curry, jw., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19715-20102
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The drawings were traced from the second design sketches. The work was later published as grOnk Random Number Series 3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

As Is or with [First Design Sketches] / curry, jw., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19712-20099
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This a page torn from P. R. Mack & Son rubberstamp catalog modified by felt pen ink additions that served as the original idea for the completed work later published as "As Or Is With," grOnk Random Number Series 3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

As Is or with [Second Design Sketches] / curry, jw., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19713-20100
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These are the first working drawings placed on a page with curry's abandoned attempt to develop a catalog for Curvd H&Z publications. This work was published as grOnk Random Number Series 3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

As Is or with [Working Drawing] / curry, jw., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19714-20101
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The drawing was traced from the second design sketches. The work was later published as grOnk Random Number Series 3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Asia Asia / Pie (TT) O/AKA Pi O., 1994

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Identifier: CC-04705-4794
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In this book, Pie (TT) O selects a Chinese ideogram and alters it so it becomes a recognizable English word or visual image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Asia / Biro, Jozsef ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2005

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Identifier: CC-48586-69617
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It is stated that this edition was sponsored by Ruth and Marvin Sackner. Biro recounts a tour through the far east with poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

asphodel: ode for james russell lowell* (091266) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-56031-9999483
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This is an "ode for james russwll lowell" of the Asphodel Bookshop in Cleveland.The poem reads, 'hallucinogenitalia,' suggesting a mocking of the police action.The text at the bottom of the page reads,"arrested 011266 by narcotics agents under a secret indictment by the county grand jury for possession & distribution of obscene poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Assembling: Eighth Assembling (K-Z). No.8 / Richard Kostelanetz ; Henry Korn ; Compilers ; Kostelanetz R ; Lomholt N ; Rahmmings K ; Phillips MJ ; Porter B ; Rosenberg MR ; Saville K ; Seaman D ; Young K ; Spiegelman L ; Ulrichs T ; Noel A ; Varney E ; Mew T ; Moore C ; Myers GJr ; Rutzky IS ; Shekerjian H ; Leon SJ ; Morgan R ; Shekerjian R ; Trawick L ; Williams R ; Doria C ; Musicmaster ; Oisteanu V., 1978

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Identifier: CC-25309-25765
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This issue Includes concrete poetic broadsides by Ivy Sky Rutzky, "Blade Rein," and several by Haig & Regina Shekerjian that were acquired as seperate items by the Sackner Archive. Ann Noel [Williams] contributed a positive/negative reversal of the characteristics of letters poem, recto-verso, in a style after another example held by the Sackner Archive which begins, "After you have selected..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Assembling. No.1 / Henry Korn ; Richard Kostelanetz ; Compilers ; Korn H ; Kostelanetz R ; Lax R ; Acconci V ; Arakawa ; Gins M ; Phillips MJ ; Ruscha E ; Federman R., 1970

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Identifier: CC-25296-25752
Scope and Contents Dana Atchley's "Notebook 1," an Assembling, was published in March 1970 about the same time as Assembling No.1. Ed Ruscha contributed a piece entitled, "Chocolate" that consists of the word "Chocolate" printed on one page and a hand applied chocolate smear on the following sheet. This is the first periodical to utilize the term, "Assembling." Contemporary Assembling magazines arouse from the topology of correspondence art. As common reference points for its geographically dispersed participants, they functioned as alternative spaces for exhibiting work, places where invitations for projects could be broadcast and coupled with the growing practice of listing contributor's addresses, initiators of community building. Equally important, they provided correspondence art with an image of itself, a momentary snapshot that illuminated the scope and breadth of its activities. Self-published in small print runs, utilizing available print technologies, these periodicals were distributed...
Dates: 1970

Astrid Furnival: Ariadne's Thread / Moxham, Bernard, editor ; Furnival J ; Phillips T ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2014

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Identifier: CC-59813-10002866
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Box is labeled Bernard Moxham. He is the editor of this volume of Astrid Furnival's knitted works. The contents include Ruth Sackner photographed wearing the sweaters " Un Coup de Des" and "Be Fruitful and Multiply." Marvin Sackner is photographed wearing "Samuel Beckett - Breath." Also photographed and in the Sackner Archive are"Satie Sat At Tea" and "The Garden." All these works were photographed by Barbara Bollini. Astrid's wall hanging work "Roses Arose" is in the collection of Sara Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Astrologic Chart (original version) / UU, David., 1967

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Identifier: CC-48426-69453
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: David UU (pronounced David W.), or David W. Harris, (1948"“1994) is considered an accomplished concrete and experimental poet and an important small press publisher. Along with bill bissett and bpNichol, he was a pioneer of the concrete poetry movement in Canada, and perhaps the first Canadian poet to explore visual collage embodying literary, philosophical and language references. He also composed sound works (both musical & textual), made 8mm short films, was a master collagist/montagist and performed in numerous performance art exhibitions. David W. Harris was born on June 13, 1948, in Barrie, Ontario. The family moved to Collingwood in 1958, where he lived until setting out for Toronto in 1966. He left Toronto for Vancouver in 1968 and over the next decade relocated between Ontario and the west coast several times. In 1980 he settled in North Vancouver where he lived until finally moving to a farmhouse near Delhi, Ontario in 1992 where he died in May, 1994. On...
Dates: 1967

at det at./ laesealbum / Nielsen, Hans-Jorgen., 1965

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Identifier: CC-57667-53724
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The title translates from the Danish to English as 'The Castle.'Wikipedia: Hans-Jorgen Nielsen (23 June 1941 in Herlufmagle - 10 April 1991) was a Danish author and critic who mainly wrote poems and essays but was known to the general public for his novel Football angel , 1979 . The latter has been characterized as a generation novel, and got great success with and importance to the period adolescents. It has been translated into several languages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965