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Conventional fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1181 Collections and/or Records:

Bilboquet (by Charles Cros) / John Crombie, translator., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39686-41647
Scope and Contents The book consists of a short story about the French game of Bilboquet that is based upon tossing a wooden ball tethered to a peg in the ground with a string and then catching it.Internet description: Hand set and hand printed in Nicolas Cochin by John Crombie who has translated the text from the original French. The title page is in black with the title in red and blue; each page is decorated with a colored ball and string, blue and pink, followed by green and pink, followed by a dark and lighter pink, the letterpress over the colorful balls and sticks and woven string tethers that snake around each page. Page size: 6-7/8 inches x 5 inches; 20 leaves. Bound by Antonio: simplified structure of tan suede stamped to "texturize" it to resemble wood grain, with onlays of wood in shape of a ball and stick on front panel and cup on back panel, the ball light colored, the stick medium toned, and the cup darker, string onlay on front panel on tan cord, the string on back panel a twist of...
Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Binnewater Tides, The. No.3/Sep-Nov / Heft C., 1989

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Identifier: CC-23055-23492
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Binnewater Tides, The. No.3/Sum-Fall / Chalker-Tennant N., 1990

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Identifier: CC-23057-23494
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Biobibliographique, 1986

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Identifier: CC-17959-18329
Scope and Contents

The type becomes progressively smaller on each page so that more words appear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

Bits / Ableman, Paul., 1969

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Identifier: CC-24783-25236
Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Bizarre. No.5/Jul / Arnaud N., 1955

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Identifier: CC-46718-49448
Dates: 1955
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Bizarre. No.6/Nov / Michel Laclos, editor ; Henry M ; Bielkine W., 1956

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Identifier: CC-46719-49449
Dates: 1956
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Bizarre. No.8/Jul / Henry M., 1957

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Identifier: CC-46721-49451
Scope and Contents

This issue includes a large illustrated section by Maurice Henry on Palindromes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Bizarre. No.9., 1958

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Identifier: CC-46722-49452
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with a perpetual motion machine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Bizarre. No.10 / Topor R., 1958

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Identifier: CC-46723-49453
Scope and Contents

This issue includes a large section on causes of diseases. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Blasphemies and the Cause of Plagues / O'Connell, Megan G. ; Johnson, Leon., 1993

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Identifier: CC-38558-40466
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Blatt einer Edition zu den Lesungen: Michael Kruger: Die Krahe. No.1 / Uta Schneider ; Ulrike Stoltz., 1986

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Identifier: CC-28307-29485
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Blue: A Novel / Zucker, Benjamin., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34667-36368
Scope and Contents In the New York Times Book Review, William Ferguson writes, "Benjamin Zucker's first novel, Blue, is at once a spiritual challenge and a gorgeous typographic object. Echoing the style of the Talmud, the book presents a continuing narrative in the center of each right-hand page, where a passage from the Mishna - ancient commentary on the Torah - would ordinarily be placed...The central story is wreathed with commentaries, including those of Abe's mother and father, the impatient Rachel and a host of others both living and dead: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, Chief Crazy Horse, Modigliani, Isaac Luria, Bob Dylan, and dozens more. Their remarks all begin with a word or phrase taken from the main text; the words attributed to them are a mixture of direct quotation, in italics, and the author's expertly constructed inventions of what they might have said. The left-hand pages all bear illustrations - dazzling reproductions of Vermeers and Van Goghs, photographs of Kafka, Talmudic texts - that...
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Blur. No.6/Fall / Kostelanetz R., 1990

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Identifier: CC-22922-23358
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Bold Print. No.5 / Berry J ; Janet J., 1987

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Identifier: CC-43208-45265
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

Bon Voyage Freddie!, 2009

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Identifier: CC-60094-10003113
Scope and Contents

The first French edition of Bon Voyage Freddie! was printed by hand by the artist and author in 1980 in 95 examples by Editions Kickshaw. -- 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 / BOOKS

Book Eleven / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53149-74301
Scope and Contents

This story is written as a stream of consciousness and includes several thoughts about the word, 'Fuck.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
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

Books to Read in Utopia / Granary Books ; Acconci V ; Acker K ; Bernstein C ; Guston P ; Schneeman G ; Mayer B ; Coolidge C ; Berrigan T ; Berman W ; Berkson B ; Cage J ; Giorno J ; Phillips T ; Saroyan A ; Rothenberg J ; Higgins D., 1996

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Identifier: CC-10654-10863
Scope and Contents

The cover is a visual piece by Bernadette Mayer entitled, "The Golden Book of Words." The works in this catalogue were in the collection of Mayer. -- 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: Catalogs

Books to Read in Utopia / Granary Books ; Acker K ; Berkson B ; Bernstein C ; Brainard J ; Clark T ; Creeley R ; Duncan R ; Ginsberg A ; McClure M ; Padgett R ; Rothenberg J., 1995

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Identifier: CC-34250-35940
Scope and Contents

The cover is a visual piece by Lewis Warsh and this catalogue consists of books from the library of this poet, novelist, editor and publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Bra)m(ind / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53162-74314
Scope and Contents

This story relates the gunshot murder of a transvestite in the inner city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
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

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