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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3943 Collections and/or Records:

Gronk Intermediate Series: A Dozen Douzains for Eve Rosenthal. No.12 / Jackson Mac Low., 1978

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Identifier: CC-29450-30815
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The mesostic that runs through all stanzas of the poem in a diagonal presentation reads, "Eve Rosenthal." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Gronk Intermediate Series: A Dozen Douzains for Eve Rosenthal. No.12 / Jackson Mac Low., 1978

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Identifier: CC-36265-38055
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The mesostic that runs through all stanzas of the poem in a diagonal presentation reads, "Eve Rosenthal." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Gronk Intermediate Series: A Dozen Douzains for Eve Rosenthal. No.12 / Jackson Mac Low., 1978

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Identifier: CC-36267-38057
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The mesostic that runs through all stanzas of the poem in a diagonal presentation reads, "Eve Rosenthal." A handwritten graphite note on the title page of one copy states" 1st state w/o copyright notice." The duplicate copy does not have this note. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Gronk: Pnomes, Jukollages and Other Stunzas. No.2 / Earle Birney ; Nichol bp ; Suknaski A., 1970

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Identifier: CC-36258-38048
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This work was designed by bp Nichol except for one piece by Andrew Suknaski. Two copies have the printed envelope intact, in another copy, the envelope is frayed, and in the remaining copy, the envelope is absent. The actual edition size was probably 300 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Gronk: Something In. No.4 / Martina Clinton., 1970

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Identifier: CC-36934-38767
Scope and Contents

Probably published in an edition of 400 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Guessed Book / curry, jw, editor ; Bok C ; Connoly K ; Mayne S ; Books J., 2002

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Identifier: CC-44020-46133
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curry writes at the end of this book in "some notes" that all pages were produced from Gestetner stencils, typed, drawn, cut, rubbed and crumpled by their respective artists (with few exceptions) onsite at the Writers Festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Had I the Heavens' Embroidered Cloths / Tom Phillips; Alice Wood., 1997

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Identifier: CC-39049-40987
Scope and Contents Tom Phillips, with the assistance of Alice Wood, created this quilt from fragments of fabric from costumes Phillips was designing for "Winter's Tale" at the Globe Theatre in London. Phillips writes, "For Autolycus I had supervised the making of a large patchwork cloak and was fascinated to see how humdrum pieces of the cloths of the world rather than of heaven when juxtaposed sang out as rich and rare. Some of the 'dye and drab' of the cloak of Autolycus started off this present piece." The text is from a poem by the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats titled "He wishes for the cloths of heaven." The poem reads, "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, - Enwrought with the golden and silver light, - The blue and the dim and the dark cloths - Of night and light and half-light, - I would spread the cloths under your feet - But I, being poor, have only my dreams; - I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; - Tread softly because you tread on my dreams..." The letters of the poem are...
Dates: 1997

Had I the Heavens' Embroidered Cloths / Tom Phillips; Alice Wood., 1997

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Identifier: CC-39049-40987
Scope and Contents Tom Phillips, with the assistance of Alice Wood, created this quilt from fragments of fabric from costumes Phillips was designing for "Winter's Tale" at the Globe Theatre in London. Phillips writes, "For Autolycus I had supervised the making of a large patchwork cloak and was fascinated to see how humdrum pieces of the cloths of the world rather than of heaven when juxtaposed sang out as rich and rare. Some of the 'dye and drab' of the cloak of Autolycus started off this present piece." The text is from a poem by the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats titled "He wishes for the cloths of heaven." The poem reads, "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, - Enwrought with the golden and silver light, - The blue and the dim and the dark cloths - Of night and light and half-light, - I would spread the cloths under your feet - But I, being poor, have only my dreams; - I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; - Tread softly because you tread on my dreams..." The letters of the poem are...
Dates: 1997

Hallow*een / Kryss, Tom L.., 1966

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Identifier: CC-44126-46251
Scope and Contents From WEB site of Kent State Archives: Biographical Note [written by Tom Kryss] Tom Kryss was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1948 and attended high school in Garfield Heights, where for a time he edited the school newspaper, established a literary magazine, and worked in the layout department of a local suburban weekly. In the summer of 1966, before his departure for the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, he came into contact with the bookseller James Lowell and the poet d.a. levy; and began to entertain the idea of self-publishing works of poetry. On campus at Northwestern he collected material for an independent literary magazine, and left school to earn money to publish it. In Chicago and Bensenville, Illinois, he met the independent publisher Douglas Casement and the poet Douglas Blazek, and observed first hand the production of their poetry magazine, broadsides, and chapbooks, via letterpress and mimeograph. It was through Casement's Fenian Head Center Press...
Dates: 1966

Hand of the Poet, The / Carroll L., 1995

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Identifier: CC-09883-10079
Scope and Contents

Exhibition consisted of original manuscripts by 100 masters from John Donne to T.S. Eliot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Hand of the Poet, The: Part II / cummings ee ; Kunitz S ; Zukofsky L ; Olson C ; Duncan R ; Creeley R ; Kerouac J ; Ginsberg A ; Snyder G ; Koch K ; Thomas D ; Padgett R., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28431-29685
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This was the second half of an exhibition curated by Rodney Phillips which included original manuscripts of 100 poets in chronological order from e.e. cummings to Julia Alvarez. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996