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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6515 Collections and/or Records:

Wafer / spence, pete., 1992

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Identifier: CC-03003-3048
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*WEB 1998: pete spence: there was only about 12 copies of this ever made. they were made for a book table at a writers festival i thought every copy sold on the day (a best seller!!) Warren Burt purchased 2 copies and later performed the work on a New Music programme treating the book as a music score. i don' remember having a copy over to send to you! but am pleased you have a copy!!!Actually, this was a gift to the Sackner Archive from pete spence! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Wahnsinn Litaneien / Ruehm, Gerhard., 1973

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Identifier: CC-39281-41228
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This copy of the book is missing the record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Waking in the Hospital: 1968-1969 / Bing, Ilse., 1980

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Identifier: CC-23453-23897
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The poet, an internationally known art photographer, describes her experiences as a hospitalized patient in a poem entitled "Dawn" - 'when the day starts for you, a new day starts...but in the hospital, nothing starts, the grey goes on and on, hold your breath in fear, take your breath -- where is life?' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Waldemar Is the Venom / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12145-12369
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The text on this card reads, "Waldemir is the venom in the liberal snake." Waldemar refers to Waldemar Januszczack, the art critic of the Guardian newspaper, who was opposed to Finlay's commission proposal for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Walk Talk / Ferdinand Kriwet., 1975

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Identifier: CC-08129-8290
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This floor covering that covered part of Kriwet's hallway was a gift to Ruth and Marvin Sackner when they visited Kriwet in his castle outside of Saabrucken, West Germany in 1984. The Sackners were participating in a video production in Saarbrucken produced by Klaus Peter Dencker for German television at the time. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Walker Area Code 212] / Kotowitz, Victor., 1972

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Identifier: CC-48118-69141
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This print depicts a page of the white pages of the New York telephone directory with a text over text, scattered name "Wright" over the right lower section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Wan/Grin (For Schools) / Cobbing, Bob., 1986

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Identifier: CC-17566-17932
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One copy is printed on white paper and two copies on brown paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

War Sand / McMurtagh ; Bennett, John M.., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51988-73090
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McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

was an old woman lived in the buddhashoe (290663-060763) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-08879-9055
Scope and Contents This page includes 11 typewriter poems including a oiem in five parts as an homage to Leopold Sedar Senghor. Wikipedia: Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 "“ 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (1960"“1980). Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century. He graduated from the University of Paris, where he received the Agrégation in French Grammar. Subsequently, he was designated professor at the universities of Tours and Paris, where he taught during the period 1935"“1945. Senghor decided to start his teaching years at the Lycée René-Descartes in Tours; he also taught at the Lycée Marcelin Berthelot in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses near Paris.[14] He also studied linguistics...
Dates: 1963

Washday Regatta / Cutts, Simon., 1968

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Identifier: CC-30895-32349
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This is a small six line poem against a field of white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

was/man/macht / Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-05107-5206
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The poems deal with actions that can be carried out over a concrete sidewalk. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

watching words move / Chermayoff, Ivan ; Geismar, Tom ; Heller S ; Hinrichs K ; Greiman A ; Brownjohn R., 2006

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Identifier: CC-45260-47445
Scope and Contents

The authors present the history of their first publication of this book in the intoduction. Steven Heller, Kit Hinrichs, April Greiman, Michael Carabetta and George Lois all contributed statements in the afterward about the influence this book, first published in 1962, had on them as graphic designers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Wave / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1972

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Identifier: CC-11871-12092
Scope and Contents

This lined sheet that was torn from a notebook is an early sketch by Finlay for his Wave/Rock poem. Original signed drawings by Finlay are extremely rare. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972