Concrete poetry

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

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Astrologic Chart (rebuilt for High C) / UU, David., 1983

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Identifier: CC-48427-69454

Dates: 1983

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Astronauts of Inner-Space: An International Collection of Avant Garde Activity, 1966

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Identifier: CC-23139-23577

Dates: 1966

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Asymmetry: A Symphony / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19864-20252

Dates: 1983

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

At Different Hours: An Anthology of Verbo-Visual Works 1984 - 2005, 2007

Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]

Identifier: CC-48505-69534

Dates: 2007

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

At Home with Books / Ellis, Estelle ; Seebohm, Caroline ; Sykes, Christopher Simon ; Minsky R ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Wolfson Mjr ; Harris E ; Harris T ; Doner MO., 1995

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Identifier: CC-14317-14625

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This is a sumptiously colored illustrated book on 40 book collectors and the way they live with and care for their books in their residences. The Sackners and Micky Wolfson collections are described in a section of the book entitled, "The Grand Passion." The collections of the Harris', Richard Minsky, and Michele Oka Doner are described in a section entitled, "Beautiful Bookscapes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

At Sunrise, 1968

Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]

Identifier: CC-37577-39434

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This poem was composed with the same layout as the one with the same title but with "Chinese-like lettering" in conventional hand printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

At Sunrise (Chinese-like lettering), 1968

Item — Folder 51: [Barcode: 31858072537842]

Identifier: CC-37572-39429

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In a personal communication to the Sackners, Adler commented that this poem-drawing was an attempt at a new visual alphabet equivalent to Chinese lettering. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

atlanTopia / And, Miekal., 2006

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Identifier: CC-48835-69870

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And notes that this work utilized the 4,918 words of the combined vocabulary of Thomas More's Utopia (1616) and Sir Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis (1623). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)