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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

Bug Death / Nettelbeck, F.A.., 1979

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Identifier: CC-05654-5761
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Wikepedia: Fred Arthur Nettelbeck (November 9, 1950 "“ January 20, 2010) was an American poet. In the early 1970s he began work on a long poem that was published in 1979: Bug Death. Bug Death was created using cut-up and collage texts combined with original writing. His literary magazine, This Is Important (1980"“1997), published such writers as William S. Burroughs, Wanda Coleman, John M. Bennett, Jack Micheline, Allen Ginsberg, Robin Holcomb, Charles Bernstein, John Giorno, etc. His other publication of note was a Small press mimeo magazine: Throb (1971), publishing Al Masarik, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Gerald Locklin, Joel Deutsch, and 'Charles Bukowski answers 10 easy questions'. Nettelbeck's work, publications, and papers are collected in the Ohio State University Avant Writing Collection and the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Bug Death / Nettelbeck, F.A.., 1975

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Identifier: CC-05655-5762
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On final page, Nettelbeck has written in graphite that this work has been copywrited by Rough Life Press, Los Angeles in 1975 and by Horsehead Nebula Press in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Bulletin 21 / King, Patrick., 1993 - 1994

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Identifier: CC-08034-8194
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The Sackners purchased from this catalogue, the book, "Aelianus Tacticus" by Lorenzo Torrentino that incorporates "elaborate typographic battle-plans...and troop formations which must have driven [his] type-setters to despair." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993 - 1994

bum /dc3 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1975

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Identifier: CC-35065-36791
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The word, bum, on this drawing rotated 90 degrees spells dc3 (Houedard's abbreviation for cinicolo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Burn Poem: La La Mi / Ovcacek, Eduard., 1981

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Identifier: CC-05249-5351
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The burnt-out, stencilled letters of the title were done on paper of a printed music score. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Busta Celeste, 1979

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Identifier: CC-38172-40067
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The poem deals with the theme of a dark blue sky. This work is also designated situazioni plasticoverbali No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Buster Keaton Enters into Paradise / Higgins, Dick ; Knowles A ; McHugh B., 1994

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Identifier: CC-09802-9996
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Diagramatic texts are based on scrabble board games starting with the name Buster Keaton. Eleven performances derive from the list of words on each board and film clips of Keaton. Nine layouts of the Scrabble game are depicted that have a concrete poetic appearance owing to different choices of type face and weight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

buttocks / Klivar, Miroslav., 1965

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Identifier: CC-32343-33910
Scope and Contents Professor. Miroslav Klivar (14 January 1932 , Kosice ) is a Czechoslovakian influential art critic, painter, graphic designer, glass artist, photographer, member of several art societies and recipient of numerous art awards. He graduated from Charles University in Prague. His art work is very extensive. Since 1949, he has written poetry and is a member of the International Union of writers and publicists. For his work has won numerous awards and recognition (such as prize for applied and industrial art design in 1969, the Czech-Bavarian Prize Art League, Grand Prix at the First European Festival videoumění Award, Frantisek Kupka, the Prize of Salvador Dali, Karel Hynek Macha Award). Since 1955 he taught at art schools - the Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Applied Arts in Prague Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Prague 3 It is now a professor at the World University of Brussels. --...
Dates: 1965

c (h) andle leer / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-55089-9998917
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The title of this poem is unclear with respect to its content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

cahiers de la 5th feuille, les. No.5/Apr / Julien Blaine ; Bruly-Bouabre F ; Mendieta A., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44628-46791
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Blaine again returns to a vulva theme in this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005