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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

Fingermail: ks. No.17/May / Daniel f. Bradley., 1995

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Identifier: CC-34494-36191
Scope and Contents

This letter picture might represent an abstract seascape with a ship in the foreground. One of the copies is taken from the Archive of O!!Zone 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Fingermail: Transfiguration (in memory of bp Nichol). No.5/Feb / David UU., 1991

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Identifier: CC-11672-11890
Scope and Contents

Edited by Damian Lopes. Poem consists of repetitive letter b's which undergo transition to p's, thereby serving as a homage to "bp" Nichol. This is the first edition of the work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Fingermail: Transfiguration (in memory of bpNichol): bbbbpppp. No.5/May / David UU., 1991

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Identifier: CC-11016-11231
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd edition of the poem printed in a smaller format. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Fingermail: Transfiguration (in memory of bpNichol): bbbbpppp. No.5/May / David UU., 1991

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Identifier: CC-60732-10003585
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd edition of the poem printed in a smaller format. Taken fro the Archive of O!!Zone 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Fingermail: Transfiguration. No.5/May / David UU., 1991

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Identifier: CC-11669-11887
Scope and Contents

Commemorates death of bp Nichol; this is the second edition. Another copy (76/88) is in Burrus Archive for O!!Zone 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Fir-Tree Song / Lucie-Smith, Edward., 1965

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Identifier: CC-38208-40104
Scope and Contents

The poem is laid out in the shape of a fir tree. This copy is from the unsigned, unnumbered edition of 175; 75 copies were signed and numbered by Lucie-Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Fire Coming On...(2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1993

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Identifier: CC-11081-11296
Scope and Contents

This has been taken from Heraclitean Variations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Fire Engine Red / Gross, Roni., 1995

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Identifier: CC-10629-10838
Scope and Contents

This book commemorating Valentine's Day 1995, consists of randomly arranged phrases containing the word, red, which is omitted and marked with an underlined space. A red pencil is provided in the base to allow writing this missing word. The transluce pages that fold over each other were printed with a laser from a MacIntosh computer. The ink drawings in black ink depicting red colored fruits (apple, strawberry, etc.) on the covers were printed letterpress at the Center for Book Arts, NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[First Draft for Richard Truhlar's Ten Sephardic Translations] / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19727-20114
Scope and Contents

This consists of preliminary sketches for the work that was published in can't afford no Kodak Instamatik Instamatik Vol.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

First Series #14 / Young, Karl ; Berman W ; MacLow J ; Rothenberg J ; Olson T ; Ott G ; Kostelanetz R ; Nichol bp ; Four Horsemen., 1988

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Identifier: CC-38325-40222
Scope and Contents

Karl Young collated, at random, rejected or test pages from the books of his own Membrane Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Fish-Sheet One / Finlay, Ian Hamilton, editor; Hollo A; Morgan E; Brown P; Finlay IH., 1963

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Identifier: CC-11869-12090
Scope and Contents

This anthology includes a poem by Edwin Morgan that Houedard retyped, 'Dogs Round A Tree.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Fission / Kempton, Karl ; Grumman B ; cummings ee ; Patchen K ; Huth G., 1988

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Identifier: CC-32347-33914
Scope and Contents

Bob Grumman wrote the introduction in which he comments on the form of Kempton's poems whereby a word is split into two or more words by intervening spaces. He mentions that G. Huth designated this form as a severlation. These poems are printed one to a page, e.g., artifact = art if act, justice = just ice, herring = her ring, netherlands = net her lands, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Five Days / Miskowski, Mike., 1987

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Identifier: CC-05741-5849
Scope and Contents

Verso of card reads: "Mike Miskowski & Postglyph 1.2." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987