Conventional fiction

The Marcia and John Goin Ernest Hemingway Collection / Joseph the Provider., 1992

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Identifier: CC-08267-8429

Scope and Contents

John Goin provides an introductory essay on how he and his wife became Hemingway collectors during their training periods as physicians, the pleasures of rooting out rare items, meeting other collectors world wide, and finally selling the collection. Goin gives the reason for the sale as "Since there can be no such thing as a 'complete' Hemingway collection, we have chosen to stop now." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

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)

The Marvels of Professor Pettingruel, 1978

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Identifier: CC-32699-34285

Scope and Contents

Peter Koch illustrated this surrelistic novel with six visual poetic images and Shelly Hoyt made the binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

The Marvels of Professor Pettingruel, 1978

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Identifier: CC-38292-40188

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Peter Koch illustrated this surrelistic novel with six visual poetic images and Shelly Hoyt made the binding. Nations drew two small boxes next to his signature, one designated yes, the other no; the yes box is checked. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

The Meditations of Caliban / Lander, Tim., 1973

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Identifier: CC-49622-70674

Dates: 1973

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)

The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, 1945

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Identifier: CC-04287-4366

Dates: 1945

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)

The Message to the Planet / Murdoch, Iris ; Phillips T., 1989

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Identifier: CC-05752-5860

Scope and Contents The jacket illustration is by Tom Phillips who has painted the portrait of Iris Murdoch.New York Times Book review of 'Living on Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995': At 17, Iris Murdoch was asked what she intended to do with her life. She gave a one-word answer: "Write." Sixty years on, what may have been Dame Iris Murdoch's last coherent words as she was sucked into the darkness of Alzheimer's disease were: "I wrote."She usually did it the hard way: longhand, preferably with a Montblanc fountain pen. Her writing encompassed 26 published novels as well as Âphilosophical treatises, essays and, most time-consumingly, an ocean of letters. She Âdutifully replied to every one she received, unless they were "mad or spiteful." Writing letters, Avril Horner and Anne Rowe note in their introduction to "Living on Paper," their selection of Murdoch's correspondence, routinely took up four hours of her afternoon.They were not drudging hours. For Murdoch, there was a sheer...

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: Books (unprocessed)

The Mind Crime of August Saint / Arias-Misson, Alain., 1993

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Identifier: CC-26779-27249

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: Books (unprocessed)

The Moving Shadow Problem, 1986

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Identifier: CC-06518-6637

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 (unprocessed)

The Museum at Purgatory / Bantock, Nick., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33636-35294

Scope and Contents Donna Seaman in Booklist, November 1, 1999 captures the essence of this book."This is the slightest of Bantock's clever, illustrated novels. The author of the Griffin and Sabine trilogy and The Forgetting Room (1997), Bantock combines inventive collages with lightweight if witty and sweet metaphysical fables. This tale is told by Non, the curator of the museum in Purgatory. Purgatory is a city, Non explains, a city that is in constant flux, forever changing its shape, its buildings, its trees, and its light and colors. A place of ambiguity, it is where souls come to re-evaluate their lives. It seems that we are essentially conduits for information, which we "deposit" into the collective consciousness via our dreams. Therefore, the question each soul must answer before they leave is whether he or she has "contributed enough to the greater consciousness" to go to a Utopian State, or, failing that, to a Dystopia. Non's job is to watch over the souls of collectors and to house their...

Dates: 1999

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)

The Narrator Becomes Anxious / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19746-20133

Scope and Contents

This was subsequently published in Curvd H&Z No.309, 1985. -- 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)

The Natty Awning / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19691-20078

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This is an unpublished manuscript. -- 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)

The Oulipo Winter Journeys / Perec, Georges ; Ian Monk, translator ; Harry Mathews, translator ; John Sturrock, translator ; Bens J ; Mathews H ; Roubaud J., 2001

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Identifier: CC-55664-9999267

Scope and Contents Internet Peter Baker's translation of introduction: During the last week of August 1939, while rumors of war invaded Paris, a young literature professor, Vincent Degrael, was invited to spend several days at a property in the neighborhood of le Havre that belonged to the parents of one of his colleagues, Denis Borrade. The eve of his departure, while he was exploring the library of his hosts searching for one of the books that one has always promised oneself to read, but which one generally only has time to flip through the pages negligently next to the fire before going to make up the fourth at bridge, Degrael fell upon a slim volume entitled The Winter Voyage, whose author, Hugo Vernier, was absolutely unknown to him, but the first pages of which made such a strong impression on him that he barely took the time to excuse himself from his friend and his hosts before going to read it in his room. The Winter Voyage was a sort of first-person narrative, situated in a...

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: Books (unprocessed)

The Pearl / Hirschman, Jack A., introducer., 1967

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Identifier: CC-29708-31083

Scope and Contents

This book consists of erotic stories from a magazine with the same title written during Victorian England. An introductory essay was written by Hirschman. -- 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 (unprocessed)

The Perishable Press Limited / Granary Books ; Hamady W ; Oppenheimer J ; Schwerner A ; Rothenberg J ; Blackburn P ; Wakoski D ; Wilde J ; Ginsberg A., 1990

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Identifier: CC-04708-4797

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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

The Poet Assassinated and Other Stories / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Ron Padgett, translator., 1984

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Identifier: CC-24735-25188

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 (unprocessed)

The Poet Assassinated / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Ron Padgett, translator ; Dine J., 1968

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Identifier: CC-24752-25205

Scope and Contents

Illustrated by Jim Dine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

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)

The Porthole, 2011

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Identifier: CC-59600-10002678

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Amazon.com: Recipient of the 1966 "Ferro di Cavallo" prize for a first novel, THE PORTHOLE was a highly praised and controversial debut. Pulling together diverse elements from the musical experiments of Cage, Schnebel and Kagel, the pictorial innovations of assemblage and pop art, x-rated comics, and dialogue from horror and World War II films, Spatola liberated his narrative from the stultifying edifice of Italian prose. The Porthole remains even more important today for its remarkable achievement in that fertile period of experimental literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

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)