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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3936 Collections and/or Records:

The Ballad of no Berets / Shulman, Matthew H.., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-33860-35531
Scope and Contents

This poem was printed by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Bee / Paul Oratofsky; April Vollmer; A.S.C. Rower., 1992

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Identifier: CC-05243-5345
Scope and Contents

This work, with an envelope encased in beeswax, was designed by A.S.C. Rower. If the beeswax is slit, a leaflet can be retrieved from the envelope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Beginning of Sunny Dawn / levy, d.a.., 1968

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Identifier: CC-07269-7412
Scope and Contents

Cover was designed by Sandy Webb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Beginning of Sunny Dawn & Red Lady / levy, d.a.., 1969

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Identifier: CC-07330-7474
Scope and Contents

Doug Blazek designed the abstract markings on the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

the black box of poems / Depew, Linda ; Depew, Wally ; LeWitt S., 2003

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Identifier: CC-51142-72229
Scope and Contents This work was dedicated to Sol Lewitt. A leaflet placed at the beginning of this project by Wally Depew states the following with regard to his wife, Linda. "The box and the eight page, single sheet, folded books were cut, folded and formed by Linda. Linda Words Poem was coloured and painted by Linda. The sewed books were sewed by Linda. The whole project was overseen, criticized and approved by Linda. Thanks Fee, you keep the fun in life." The works in this project employ a large number of fonts and are particularly focused but not exclusively on transmorfation, e.g., beginning with one word and passing through several alterations of the letters to form another word. This work is a partial summation of the artistic/poetic of Wally and Linda Depew.Obituary Contra Costa Times: Wally Depew, an artist, musician, poet and writer, died August 18, 2007 in Patagonia, Arizona, two months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 69. A native of Scranton, Pa., he was a Phi Beta...
Dates: 2003

The Bloodletting 2nd Edition / Katzman, Allan ; levy da., 1965

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Identifier: CC-33903-35575
Scope and Contents

This booklet printed by da levy has a map as its cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

The Bloodletting / Katzman, Allan ; levy da., 1964

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Identifier: CC-48976-70014
Scope and Contents

This booklet printed by da levy is the first edition; the Sackner Archive also holds the 2nd edition. According to an essay in Congress No.1, this book was seized by Cleveland Police for obscenity from Asphodel Book Store in 1966 but in Marvin Sackner's perusal, it did not even remotely reveal obcenity. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

The Blue Sail, 2002

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Identifier: CC-42824-44864
Scope and Contents

This book is a selection of Finlay's poems over 40 years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Boy and The Bird, 1969

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Identifier: CC-40866-42843
Scope and Contents

The text is by Emmett Williams and the illustrations are by Tom Wasmuth. Each page contains four lines of poetry. The upper right corner of each page is filled with black step-like forms. As the poem becomes more complex, the black areas grow larger black areas that gradually recede altogether from the page. The poems in turn also become simpler in form. The note in the back of the book states that "the cover illustrates the intention of the artist...to realize this intention the reader may cut out the black area of each page and remove the cover photograph." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Boy and The Bird, 1969

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Identifier: CC-40880-42857
Scope and Contents

The text is by Emmett Williams and the illustrations are by Tom Wasmuth. Each page contains four lines of poetry. The upper right corner of each page is filled with black step-like forms. As the poem becomes more complex, the black areas grow larger black areas that gradually recede altogether from the page. The poems in turn also become simpler in form. The note in the back of the book states that "the cover illustrates the intention of the artist...to realize this intention the reader may cut out the black area of each page and remove the cover photograph." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Boy Who Ate Around, 1994

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Identifier: CC-16131-16474
Scope and Contents

The author, who also makes artist books, has included some of the illustrations utilized for them inside the front and back covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Burning of Los Angeles / Hirschman, Jack., 1971

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Identifier: CC-36634-38445
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed during Hirschman's Kabbalistic phase of his career. There are large Hebrew letters and words printed on the envelope and colophon. The poem and documentation are printed in Hirschman's distinctive holographic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Burning of Los Angeles / Hirschman, Jack., 1971

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Identifier: CC-36635-38446
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed during Hirschman's Kabbalistic phase of his career. There are large Hebrew letters and words printed on the envelope and colophon. The poem and documentation are printed in Hirschman's distinctive holographic style. It also includes a photocopied broadside in homage to Jack Hirschman composed by John Thomas in 1973. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971