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The titles of the poems are Literature, Avenging, Migration, Movements, Nuclear Fears, Wake, Eugenics, Radical Actions, Hushed Silence, and Army. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print depicts a self-portrait of the artist from 1957; the unbound pages are typed poems, one to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in Furnival box. The cover is plakat 3, 1965 and the drawing was first published in Ou Dec 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The photocopied colored poem is entitled "The Armistice" combines one portion of the each of the logographs for Pepsi Cola and Coca Cola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a critical essay with illustrations of Finlay's work by Douglas Eadie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This set of concrete blocks that spells POETRY 80 was given to Marvin Sackner on his eightieth birthday in 2012. Since the material of the blocks is concrete, this is a riff on concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This performance video is the reading of nine poems from Emmett Williams' "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Using a musical background, and interpretive photography, the emphasis is on the visual aspect of the words and not on the linguistic. The film was donated to the Anthology Film Archives and transferred to DVD in 2006. According to 2006 media standards, the film should be considered quaint, historic and dated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This performance video is the reading of nine poems from Emmett Williams' "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Using a musical background, and interpretive photography, the emphasis is on the visual aspect of the words and not on the linguistic. The film was donated to the Anthology Film Archives and transferred to DVD in 2006. According to 2006 media standards, the film should be considered quaint, historic and dated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This performance video is the reading of nine poems from Emmett Williams' "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Using a musical background, and interpretive photography, the emphasis is on the visual aspect of the words and not on the linguistic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing. In the beginning of this book, traces the poets of concrete poetry country by country as follows: Switzerland, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, japan, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Spain, Scotland, England, Canada, and United States. This is followed by a section dealing with manifestos by Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Max Bense, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Henri Chopin, Paul De Vree, Jonathan Williams, and Ian Haimilton Finlay. The next section consists of concrete poems from from poets worldwide. Obituary: Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic, By Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer, June 29, 2007 Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as "Forsythia," a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita after...

Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing. In the beginning of this book, traces the poets of concrete poetry country by country as follows: Switzerland, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, japan, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Spain, Scotland, England, Canada, and United States. This is followed by a section dealing with manifestos by Gomringer, the Noigandres Group, Max Bense, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Henri Chopin, Paul De Vree, Jonathan Williams, and Ian Haimilton Finlay. The next section consists of concrete poems from from poets worldwide. Obituary: Mary Ellen Solt, 86; poet, poetry critic, By Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer, June 29, 2007 Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as "Forsythia," a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Santa Clarita after...

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Bibliography is restricted to books. In introduction, p. XVII cites Sackner Archive as "one major concentration" of concrete poetry. Selective brief annotations. Contains index to poem titles and chronologic ordering of works cited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition consisted of four sections: 1) Ray Johnson collages; 2) Michael Morris concrete/constructivist drawings; 3) international concrete poems and 4) film and tapes of sound poetry. Michael Rhodes traces the historic roots of concrete poetry from 1897 to 1964. Edwin Varney contributes an illustrated, critical essay defining concrete poetry that is expressed in concrete poetic terms. Ian Hamilton Finlay and Stephen Scobie collaborate with an essay on definitions of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bann discusses the history and development of the concrete poetry movement in this first broadly based collection of concrete poetry published in book form. Sections are devoted to Latin, Germanic and English poets. Particular attention is paid to pioneers such as Gomringer, the Brazilian Noigandres group and British poets Finlay and Morgan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This reprint is stored in Ian Hamilton Finlay critical text box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is Vos' doctoral thesis. He mentions that the Sackner and Sohm Archives are excellent sources for reseach on the international concrete poetry movement. He critically reviews definitions of concrete and visual poetry proposed in the past. He relies heavily on the material written by Siegfried J. Schmidt and Nelson Goodman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jurgen Brenner's book "Fuhr 4 fur Vier" is offered for purchase to the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.