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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6402 Collections and/or Records:

Bamboo / Hasekura, Takako., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29598-30969
Scope and Contents

The drawing, written in green and yellow inks, depicts five thick vertical bars, filled with Japanese ideograms, shaped like bamboo shoot . It is labeled "Bamboo by Japanese Alphabet." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[Bank] / Poets. Painters. Composers.., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-53208-74360
Scope and Contents

At the top of the card, the words, Columbia Center split the word, BANK. This copy of the card is printed on blue papercard while another copy is printed on yellow papercard. Columbia Center (formerly Bank of America Tower and Columbia Seafirst Center) is the tallest skyscraper in the downtown Seattle skyline, as well as the tallest building in the State of Washington, and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

[Bank] / Poets. Painters. Composers.., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-04042-4120
Scope and Contents

This copy of the card is printed on yellow papercard while another copy is printed on blue papercard.Columbia Center (formerly Bank of America Tower and Columbia Seafirst Center) is the tallest skyscraper in the downtown Seattle skyline, as well as the tallest building in the State of Washington, and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Bark/Barque/Baroque / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nash, John R.., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12180-12404
Scope and Contents

Finlay comments on the verso of this card that the text moves from the plain (or Doric) tree-bark to the Baoque via the elaborate barque or three-masted sailing ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Basen - Mobil II / Karel Trinkewitz., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-34810-36518
Scope and Contents

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed varied colored words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains four collaged printed papers of reproductions of works by Trinkewitz. One has a hand written text "How to Made Advertising." The second paper is hand lettered "Layout Trinkewitz." The third states "Trinkewitz 63." Also collaged on the verso bottom is a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Basen - Mobil II / Karel Trinkewitz., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-34810-36518
Scope and Contents

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed varied colored words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains four collaged printed papers of reproductions of works by Trinkewitz. One has a hand written text "How to Made Advertising." The second paper is hand lettered "Layout Trinkewitz." The third states "Trinkewitz 63." Also collaged on the verso bottom is a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Basen - Mobil / Karel Trinkewitz., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-34809-36517
Scope and Contents

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed black, white, and yellow words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains two labels from a gallery exhibition is Bratislava on 1969. Also, the following handwritten by Trinkewitz: Exposition 1966 Prague (with Jiri Kolar) Galerie Spalova and Exposition Prague Galeria Na Karlove Namesti. Also, a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." is collaged on the verso. A photographic reproduction appears in Trinkewitz's exhibition catalogue, Zivot Je Kolaz / Das Leben ist eine Collage, 1999. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Basen - Mobil / Karel Trinkewitz., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-34809-36517
Scope and Contents

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed black, white, and yellow words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains two labels from a gallery exhibition is Bratislava on 1969. Also, the following handwritten by Trinkewitz: Exposition 1966 Prague (with Jiri Kolar) Galerie Spalova and Exposition Prague Galeria Na Karlove Namesti. Also, a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." is collaged on the verso. A photographic reproduction appears in Trinkewitz's exhibition catalogue, Zivot Je Kolaz / Das Leben ist eine Collage, 1999. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Basho 1965 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-09874-10070
Scope and Contents

This is a reprinting in colored rubberstamped letters of a Houedard version of Basho's frog pond plop. The verso contains a quotation from DMF (?), "One day I will have to acknowledge that the only story is the world, and action the only language in which to tell it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

bash(o)ful pondifications / Beaulieu, Derek ; Cain S ; Nichol bp., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-36536-38337
Scope and Contents

Cover was drawn by Stephen Cain after a character/style/etc. of bpNichol. The Sackner copy is one of two covers drawn for this pamphlet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Basil Bunting - Poem for Two Voices / Cobbing, Bob., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-17672-18040
Scope and Contents

All the words in this poem begin with the letter "b." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Bay-Brested Barge-Bird / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42628-44645
Scope and Contents

This is the first draft of the poem that eventually became a larger conventional poem that was published in "The Tin Can and Other Poems" (1966), a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

Be Thirteen One Three / Steen, Vagn., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-28176-29339
Scope and Contents

Steen separated the components of the letter "B" so that it equals the number thirteen or one and three. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Bean Structure [OM] / Finch, Peter., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-12814-13101
Scope and Contents

The photograph shows several sculptured letter O's balanced on M's. The title, bean structure, references the Hindu word "om" intoned during meditation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971