Conventional fiction

Scope and Contents This book is printed on rice paper. It is a surrelistic novel with a single illustration.Opal Nations was born in Brighton, England. During the mid-sixties he worked as lead vocalist in London clubs with the late Alexis Korner's Band and later his own group, The Frays. He helped popularize American soul-based R & B and gospel music in Great Britain. It was through his efforts that black American gospel artists visited the country to perform in various major cities. He also became part of one of England's first integrated gospel groups, The Ram John Holder Group. With The Frays, and later as a soloist, he recorded for Decca Records in London. After brief periods with various London R&B bands, he turned his back on singing and began a career as an experimental fiction writer. His textual work, sometimes strange, sometimes humorous in nature, appeared in over 200 small press magazines around the world. Texts have been translated and published in French, German, and...

Dates: 1971

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

I Spent the Summer in Paris / King, Susan., 1984

Item

Identifier: CC-31456-32946

Scope and Contents

This edition was reprinted by Visual Studies Workshop in 1991. The bonding was adapted from design by Hedi Kyle. The story compares life in Paris, Kentucky to Paris, France. The former is printed as a normal font, the latter as an smaller, italic font printed between the lines of the former. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books

I Than / Hill, Crag ; Boy, C.., 1983

Item

Identifier: CC-51743-72843

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: Books

Ich frass die weisse Chinesin / Schindehutte, Ali ; Waldschmidt, Arno., 1967

Item

Identifier: CC-34591-36290

Scope and Contents

This book was purchased as a component of a work that included four Merlin Leporellos by the same authors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Ich shreibe kurz / Bender, Hans., 1994 - 1995

Item

Identifier: CC-24189-24641

Dates: 1994 - 1995

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Igitur by Stephane Mallarme, 1974

Item

Identifier: CC-32889-34504

Scope and Contents

The black and white photograph by Wallace Berman on the cover depicts a frontal view of a man or mannikin with the face completely obscured by smoke. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

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

Igitur by Stephane Mallarme / Jack A. Hirschman, translator ; Berman W., 1974

Item

Identifier: CC-32890-34505

Scope and Contents

The black and white photograph by Wallace Berman on the cover depicts a frontal view of a man or mannikin with the face completely obscured by smoke. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books