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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 568 Collections and/or Records:

Les Espaces Glissants / Gendron, Marc., 1982

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Identifier: CC-42760-44799
Scope and Contents

The first section of this novel (36 pages) is composed without punctuation marks - only exaggerated spaces. The next section (42 pages) is written with no capital letters and only periods. The third section (39 pages) is presented with various marks, /, +,*- but no periods or commas. In the fourth section (40 pages), astericks, run on words, commas and lists are present but no periods. The final section (47 pages) has + % and other signs wothout periods and commas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Les Yeux CIII CXXV / Parant, Jean-Luc ; Dubuffet J., 1976

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Identifier: CC-62392-47524
Scope and Contents The silkscreen print was done by Jean Dubuffet and the aquatints by Parant. The latter consist of two prints side by side on folded paper. The Parant prints are composed with small handdrawn 'o's equivalent to eyes. A critique of this book translated from French to English was found on the internet. "And this text enjoys without end, the words are tightened there as the hands are tightened to cherish and embrace the night: the signs are coupled with the collectable one to press the curves of the ground as the touching members link themselves with the reliefs of the darkness to dig the matter and to enjoy in its centre. It is the joy of the closed eyes, the deployment of the fingers in love with the invisible one. The words are tightened there as the eyes are tightened to link one the other and to be linked with the light: the signs are coupled between them and are projected in the fire of the sun as the members indicators amalgamate with the source of the glance so that is born the...
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Lesson No.1: Eat Your Mind / Dillard, R.H.W.; Acker K., 1989

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Identifier: CC-14727-15040
Scope and Contents

Kathy Acker's book "Empire of the Senseless" is reviewed in this article. This book is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Various Formats

Letter to an Unknown Woman / Ascher, Sheila ; Straus, Dennis., 1979

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Identifier: CC-25122-25575
Scope and Contents

Contains drawings by James E. Taylor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

letter to jacob leed returning poems / The Smithbox MS / levy, d.a.; Leed, Jacob; levy da; Ginsberg A; Bory JF; Wagner Dr; Barker B; Leary T., 1966

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Identifier: CC-07344-7488
Scope and Contents

levy's handwritten letter to Jacob Leed on verso page 3 mentions waiting for a poem by Alan Ginsberg and putting out Egyptian Stroboscope. The Smithbox is an experimental non-fictional piece replete with run-on as well as obscene words. it includes a minimalist poem by Bob Barker and a visuonary line drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
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

Lettrisme: Les existentialistes. No.25-26/Sept-Oct / Maurice Lemaitre ; Lemaitre M., 1971

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Identifier: CC-60477-56046
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: Periodicals

Life a User's Manual, 1987

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Identifier: CC-32004-33535
Scope and Contents Originally published in French in 1978, this novel is considered to be an outstanding example of twentieth century fiction in the tradition of Canterbury Tales and Ulysses. It is composed of a seies of stories that occur at the same time in an apartment building in the 17th arrondisement of Paris. Fictional but meaningful, the people and events are described in humorous and specific detail. The book is constructed like a puzzle and contains an index and a chronology.WikipedIa: Life A User's Manual (the original title is La Vie mode d'emploi) is Georges Perec's most famous novel, published in 1978, first translated into English by David Bellos in 1987. Its title page describes it as "novels", in the plural, the reasons for which become apparent on reading. Some critics have cited the work as an example of postmodern fiction, though Perec himself preferred to avoid labels and his only long term affiliation with any movement was with the Oulipo or OUvroir de LItterature POtentielle.La...
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Lily Lou / Anderson, Holly., 1986

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Identifier: CC-24633-25086
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

Linglage, 1987

 Item — Box And-Andre: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-24613-25066
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Logorinthe (Post-Roman), 1968

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Identifier: CC-20984-21393
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 / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Lost and Found Times. No.1/Aug / John M. Bennett, editor ; Bennett JM., 1975

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Identifier: CC-06879-7002
Scope and Contents

Edited by John M. Bennett and D.C. Landies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Lost and Found Times. No.2/Oct / John M. Bennett, editor ; Bennett JM., 1975

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Identifier: CC-06880-7003
Scope and Contents

Edited by John M. Bennett and D.C. Landies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Lost and Found Times. No.34/May / John M. Bennett, editor ; Andryczuk H ; Beining G ; Bennett JM ; Berry J ; Mark E ; Crozier R ; curry jw ; Doctorovich F ; Grumman B ; Heman B ; Kostelanetz R ; Lipman J ; Malok ; Nikonova R ; Selby S ; Vassilakis N ; Soroka M ; Strangulensis F ; Gorman L ; Suel L ; Ackerman A ; Braumuller H ; Erickson A ; Gorman L ; Hagglund SG ; Harris K ; Jensen D ; Kettner M ; Mark E ; DiMichele A ; Murphy S ; Perchik S ; Phillips W ; Suel L ; Taylor T ; Weinman P ; Tomoyasu L., 1995

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Identifier: CC-07696-7846
Scope and Contents

Ficus Strangulensis contributed one word calligraphic poems that degenerate to calligraphic markings and subsequently emerge as another word, a process he has termed transmorfation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Lost and Found Times. No.36/May / John M. Bennett, editor ; Andryczuk H ; Baroni V ; Beining G ; Bennett JM ; Berry J ; Cook G ; Crozier R ; Grumman B ; Heman B ; Kostelanetz R ; Malok ; Nikonova R ; Rutkovsky F ; Segay S ; Gorman L ; Bowers S ; Smith W ; Musicmaster ; Kettner M ; Selby S ; Ackerman A ; Arguelles I ; Elsberg J ; Strangulensis F ; Hagglund SG ; Leftwich J ; Musicmaster ; DiMichele A ; Phillips W ; St Thomasino G ; Tomoyasu L ; Weinman P., 1996

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Identifier: CC-07697-7847
Scope and Contents

Edited by John M. Bennett. Includes two calligraphic progressions, "Nude to Stare" and "Ripe to Shoe" as well as a mesostic by Ficus Stragulensis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Love in a Dead Language / Siegel, Lee ; Gaard F., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33125-34751
Scope and Contents This post-modern, non-linear comic novel is written in the tradition of Raymond Federman in that the story is probably autobiographical and fanciful. The book is "a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery." The author writes himself into the plot. Included in the hypertextual story are diagrams and illustrations from the Kamasutra, movie posters, upside-down pages, comic strips, varying typefaces and graduate student essays. The illustrations and cover design were done by Frank Gaard.Amazon.com review Philip Roth has done it. So have Updike and Nabokov. Now Lee Siegel joins the ranks of novelists who write novels that pretend not to be novels at all. Love in a Dead Language, for example, purports to be the work of one Professor Leopold Roth, and comprises both a translation of, and commentary on, the Kama Sutra, as well as the professor's more personal annotations concerning his amorous yearnings for one of his students. Siegel...
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

Love in a Dead Language (Uncorrected Page Proof) / Siegel, Lee ; Gaard F., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33146-34773
Scope and Contents This edition is the uncorrected page proof version. It is a post-modern, non-linear comic novel written in the tradition of Raymond Federman in that the story is probably autobiographical and fanciful. The book is "a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery." The author writes himself into the plot. Included in the hypertextual story are diagrams and illustrations from the Kamasutra, movie posters, upside-down pages, comic strips, varying typefaces and graduate student essays. The illustrations and cover design were done by Frank Gaard."Amazon.com review Philip Roth has done it. So have Updike and Nabokov. Now Lee Siegel joins the ranks of novelists who write novels that pretend not to be novels at all. Love in a Dead Language, for example, purports to be the work of one Professor Leopold Roth, and comprises both a translation of, and commentary on, the Kama Sutra, as well as the professor's more personal annotations concerning his...
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

Lung Socket / Miller, Brown, editor ; Abajkovics P., 1968

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Identifier: CC-06232-6347
Scope and Contents

The visual poetic cover was designed by Charles Plymell. -- 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

Lust / Buck, Paul ; Alejandro, Ramon., 1976

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Identifier: CC-21026-21435
Scope and Contents

The three erotic drawings rerproduced in this book were made by Ramon Alejandro. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

M.A.C. Farrant / Farrant, M.A.C.., 1992

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Identifier: CC-10912-11124
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: Booklets

Mad Boys / Reid, Jamie ; Simpson G ; Rimbaud A., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29485-30850
Scope and Contents

The book is composed of two works, "Baseball & Bowering" and "The Quest for the Mad Boy." The picture poems in this book by Gregg Simpson are reproductions of his collages. The latter appear to incorporate visual images from old engravings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

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