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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6515 Collections and/or Records:

Where is Everybody?, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-07112-7252
Scope and Contents

Theme of this book deals with intellectual hazards of watching television. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Whisper Piece / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-20837-21245
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 6. This copy has Cobbing's handwriting across the prints whereas aother copy held by the Sackner Archive does not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Whisper Piece / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-59736-10002792
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 6. Two of the prints are stored in a binder containing typewriter poems. This copy does not have Cobbing's handwriting across the prints. Another copy held by the Sackner Archive does. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Whississippi / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-17603-17971
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum pamphlet number two. "Whississippi" written in London and recorded in Stockholm, is the fourth part in a series of whisper pieces consisting of a vocal interpretation of typewriter-picture poems based of the letters in the words "whisper piece." It was read by two voices (Kersten M. Lundberg & Bob Cobbing) and then manipulated in the recording studio. The maquette for this work is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

White Blossom in a Strong Wind / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-42861-44902
Scope and Contents

The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

White Box / Breuer, Theo., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-32942-34558
Scope and Contents

Also designated Wohnzimmersonderheft 17 1/2. Each page depicts a reproduction of a photocopied collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

White Noise / Gorman, LeRoy., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32925-34541
Scope and Contents

Theme of each poem relates to "snow." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

White Table Cloth / Hompson, Davi Det., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-09260-9442
Scope and Contents

The collage with three folded white handkerchiefs labeled "oral, topical, and spinal" refers to types of anesthesia and its relation to the poems in the rest of this work is not immediately apparent. The drawings consist of minimalist poetry with themes relating to food and common domestic events along with illustrations of fragments of a room. The prints depict concrete poems mainly with food related content. The seven silkscreen prints were published in an edition of 50. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Whose Words? / Goldsmith, Kenneth ; Gillmore, Graham., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31178-32646
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by Debra Bricker Balken. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

why many monks know whatimeverythingoeschlupft (290663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55850-58820
Scope and Contents

The text zig-zags downward. The Geman word at the end of this poem, 'schlupft' meansslip or stumble in Englsih. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Why Shiva Has Ten Arms (Number One) / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-17453-17818
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." Cobbing writes on the envelope that this copy number one was finished at 3AM on August 14, 1969. Colophon states "Why Shiva has ten arms / for he represents the dance of life / the omnipotence of being able to do innumerably / many things at once / .the joyous cosmology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Why Y?, 1988

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Identifier: CC-15633-15961
Scope and Contents

The two sides of the Y form of the sculpture have question marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Why Y? / Nancy Dwyer., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-15633-15961
Scope and Contents

The two sides of the Y form of the sculpture have question marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Wie Weiss Ist Die Weisen, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-27347-28068
Scope and Contents

Variations of the Gomringer's poem "wie weis ist wissen die weisen" have been typeset in lower case letters in rectangular blocks and interspered among illustrations of Uecker's white nail works. There are 720 permutations of the words in the title sentence. The cover by Uecker is embossed with images of nails placed on heavy white paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975