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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3936 Collections and/or Records:

The Soap Opera / Heliczer, Piero ; Vaughn P ; Ferro A ; Berman W ; Smith J ; Warhol A ; Lebel JJ., 1967

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Identifier: CC-33392-35031
Scope and Contents

Lines of several poems are illustrated by Wallace Berman, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, and Jean-Jacques Lebel. The covers were designed by Paul Vaughn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Spectra Hoax / Smith, William Jay., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36331-38121
Scope and Contents

The author reveals the story of a literary hoax, and the actual poems published by the Spectra poets, Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish. Smith also contributes a preface relating the hoax to contemporary cultural values. Originally published in 1961. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Spirit Walks, The Rocks Will Talk / Johnson, Ronald ; Davenport G ; Williams J., 1969

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Identifier: CC-35157-36891
Scope and Contents

The poems deal with the poet's imagined reflections of French architectects on their well-known palaces. Also designated Jargon 72. The book was designed by Jonathan Williams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Splintered Page: Homage to Asa Beneviste, 1990

 Item — Box 47: [Barcode: 31858072538675]
Identifier: CC-08841-9016
Scope and Contents

Work done in homage to Asa Beneviste, the American expatriate poet/publisher, who died in Yorkshire at age 64 of diabetes. The signs derive from original Welsh alphabets as Wales is closest to both Beneviste and Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Spring after the War / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09035-9212
Scope and Contents

This work was written and constructed on the day of the cease fire for the Gulf War and its theme deals optimistically to the coming of spring. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Story of Cinderella / Eckert, Rosemary ; Nichol bp ; Caruso B., 1970

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Identifier: CC-29724-31101
Scope and Contents

The story was written by Rosemary Eckert, a schoolgirl, age 6 years. bp Nichol provided a brief introductory essay and Barbara Caruso designed the covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Sydney Morning Vol.III (Word Works & Ideographics 1967-1988) / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1992

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Identifier: CC-01457-1490
Scope and Contents

Includes works from the series Roadsigned & Subvertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Telephone / Smith, William Jay ; Chukovsky, Kornei ; Lent, Blair., 1975

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Identifier: CC-42597-44613
Scope and Contents

Willian Jay Smith adapted the nonsense poems of Chukovsky into English from the Russian. The book is illustrated by Blair Lent. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press - an Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979, 1993

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-01526-1559
Scope and Contents

Published on the occasion of the first exhibition in the United States of the output of this indispensable press, covering the enormously wide range of the work of publishers Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, Polish avant-garde artists who in their long tenure in England brought the likes of Jarry, Apollinaire, Queneau, Schwitters, and so many others to a wider English-speaking audience.. Includes a description and the covers of the 82 books published by Gaberbocchus Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Trees of Unknowing / Morrissey, Stephen ; Dudek L., 1978

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Identifier: CC-38262-40158
Scope and Contents

The haiku in this book are presented as amorphously shaped, fragmented, repetitive texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Vacant Frame and Walker's Book, 1980

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Identifier: CC-23166-23604
Scope and Contents

Metal objects consist of lead type. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Vienna Group: Six Major Austrian Poets / Waldrop, Rosemarie, editor ; Watts, Harriet, editor ; Mayrocker F ; Achleitner F ; Bayer K ; Jandl E ; Artmann HC ; Ruhm G., 1985

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Identifier: CC-42763-44802
Scope and Contents

Most of the works translated into English from the German are held in their original form by the Sackner Archive in the German Language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Vienna Group: Six Major Austrian Poets / Waldrop, Rosemarie, editor ; Watts, Harriet, editor ; Mayrocker F ; Achleitner F ; Bayer K ; Jandl E ; Artmann HC ; Ruhm G., 1985

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Identifier: CC-42764-44803
Scope and Contents

Most of the works translated into English from the German are held in their original form by the Sackner Archive in the German Language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985