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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

Cried and Measured / Young, Karl., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-38318-40215
Scope and Contents

The poems are based on lists of names in the Aramaic writings of the Jews of Elephantine, Egypt. There is also an essay about the Elephantine Jews, an island in the Nile river at Egypt's southern border who lived in that place in the fifth century B.C. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
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)

Criss-Cross: A Text Book of Modern Composition / Riddell, John ; Kostelanetz R ; Nichol bp ; McCaffery S ; bissett b., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-49984-71043
Dates: 1977
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)

Criss-Cross: A Text Book of Modern Composition / Riddell, John ; Kostelanetz R ; Nichol bp ; McCaffery S ; bissett b., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-57955-10001213
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds another copy of this book that is unsigned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
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)

Critica Della Ragione Poetica / Rescio, Aldo., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-39253-41199
Dates: 1970
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)

CRLe. / Topel, Andrew., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-50229-71295
Scope and Contents

Topol has created a checkerboard design using the letters CRLe. Each block alternates between white letters on a black background or vice versa. There are six design permutations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009
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)

Cropontrep Holddal I / Geczi, Janos., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-10037-10236
Scope and Contents

This shaped poem in Hungarian text depicts a saxophone with stylzed emination of music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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)

Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly. No.3-4 / Ted Plantos, editor ; curry jw ; Copithorne J ; Nichol bp ; Gorman L ; Basmajian S ; UU D ; bissett b ; Evason G ; lefler P ; Wah F ; Riddell J ; Shikatani G ; Power N ; Truhlar R., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-20774-21179
Scope and Contents

Includes several essays on the historic beginnings of Canadian concrete, visual, and sound poetry. The Archive for the essay by jw curry, Defying Linear Deification... is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Cross + Kreuz / Myslowski, Tadeusz., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-36076-37853
Dates: 1984
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)

Crossing Over / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35357-37091
Dates: 1997
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)

[crossing rectangles z's border] (090964) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-55911-9999378
Dates: 1964
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)

Crossword, 1975

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-25344-25800
Scope and Contents

The block letterforms with equal dimensions and spacings have positive/negative structures that give rise to optical effects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Crow & Cough! / Glass, Jesse Jr.., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-39094-41033
Dates: 2001
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)

CSCARD: Precarious Presumptions (for Stuart). Jun / curry, jw ; Books, Jennifer., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-37893-39773
Scope and Contents

The text by curry is a poem that lists words that become decreasingly briefer, starting with communicability...communication...common... come...c. Books contributed the background photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

CSCARD: Precarious Presumptions. No.7/Aug / jw curry., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37161-39004
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts an abstract landscape with variations of the word communicability in a column from top to botton superimposed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Ctyri Basne / Hirsal, Josef., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-36688-38502
Scope and Contents The English translation of the title is "four poems." According to Sims Reed (Modern Books April 2011), Four visual poems by Josef Hirsal created using repetitive words, typographic motifs or repeated letters. Loose as issued in original publisher's black paper wrappers, typographic motif of Hirsal's initials in gilt and green to front wrapper. Rare samizdat collection of visual poems by the Czech poet Josef Hirsal.Josef Hirsal (1920 - 2003), renowned experimental Czech poet, Surrealist, childrens' book author, friend of artist and poet Jiri Kolar and co-signatory of Charta 77 published this short collection of innovative visual poems in 1965. The poems use repeated words to build up a visual and sonic matrix, on the page and the tongue. The first poem consists of a repeated series of words: 'bude je bylo' that gradually - through typographic manipulation - reverse into 'bylo je bude'. The second poem is a repeated grouping of consonants ('c', 'h', 'm', 'n', and 't') used to create...
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: Booklets (unprocessed)

Cubagramma / De Campos, Augusto., 1962

 Item
Identifier: CC-15803-16134
Dates: 1962
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)

Culture Contre Culture / Ozanne, Denis ; Ozanne, Chloe ; Bertini G ; Ben ; Brecht G ; Maciunas G ; Debord G ; Haring K ; Lebel JJ ; Bory JF ; Blaine J., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-51210-72298
Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Cultures / Fisher, Roy; Tyson I; King R., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-11454-11670
Scope and Contents

Each print has a round shape; the clustered phrases are printed in a circular manner. The design is by Ian Tyson and production with Ron King at Circle press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
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)

Cum See Cum Sa / Anonymous., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-26906-27379
Scope and Contents

The object is a moebus strip with printed continuous text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Cum See Cum Sa / Anonymous., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-26906-27379
Scope and Contents

The object is a moebus strip with printed continuous text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

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