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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 565 Collections and/or Records:

Movement in Slow Time / Rosenberg, Ann., 1990

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Identifier: CC-03309-3359
Scope and Contents

This novel parallels the structure of Dante's Inferno but reduces his vast array of sinners and saints to a few mortals who experienced their heavens and hells on earth in contemporary times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books (unprocessed)

Mr. Watkins Got Drunk And Had To Be Carried Home (Facsimile Edition) / Nuttall, Jeff ; Burroughs WS ; Musgrove K ; Rowan J ; Cobbing B ; Pike J., 1979

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Identifier: CC-30464-31885
Scope and Contents

This book documents a party piece done in 1964 after a cut-up idea by William Burroughs. It is designated writers forum poets number twenty four. The cover of this edition differs from the original published in 1968 that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- 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 (unprocessed)

Mr. Watkins Got Drunk And Had To Be Carried Home / Nuttall, Jeff ; Burroughs WS ; Musgrove K ; Rowan J ; Cobbing B ; Pike J., 1968

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Identifier: CC-30463-31884
Scope and Contents

This book documents a party piece done in 1964 after a cut-up idea by William Buroughs. It is designated writers forum poets number twenty four. The number of copies estimated by Ulysses No.65 1998 was estimated at 50. The cover of this edition differs from the facsimile that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- 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)

My Argument with the Gestapo: A Macaronic Journal / Merton, Thomas., 1969

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Identifier: CC-35668-37418
Scope and Contents

This is Merton's only premonastic prose work, a novel about his views on peace and war, written before he entered a Trappist monastery. There is a dreamlike or nightmarish quality to the story, heightened by the use of a wierd composite language, a mixture of English and several languages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
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)

My Own Mag: [Cut-Up Issue]. No.6/Jul / Jeff Nuttall, William S. Burroughs, editors ; Nuttall J ; Burroughs WS ; Johnson BS ; Hollo A ; Musgrave S., 1964

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Identifier: CC-06403-6520
Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

myesis (Vol.1), 2006

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Identifier: CC-45694-47902
Scope and Contents

myesis signifies layers and stages of fragmentation. Chapters or sections as fragments of the book; paragraphs as fragments of chapters; sentences as fragments of the paragraphs; phrases as fragments of the sentences; words as fragments of the phrases; letters as fragments of the words. I read the empty spaces. Myesis is an excessive, minimalist writing. Leftwich interweaves Greek mythology, Judaism, comments on music and performance with language poetry and the rules of poetry . He provides several long quotes from contemporary poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
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)

Nagasaki, My Love / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53172-74324
Dates: 2003
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)

Naming Problem/The Fast One (Lardhead 2!!) / Cheek, Cris., 1982

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Identifier: CC-19978-20366
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 (unprocessed)

Narrowgauge to Riobamba / Brandi, John., 1975

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Identifier: CC-21533-21944
Scope and Contents

The drawings in this book were done by John Brandi. -- 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: Books (unprocessed)

Negativeland / Nufer, Doug., 2004

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Identifier: CC-49554-70602
Scope and Contents

The book starts with chapter 6 and finishes with chapter 1. Amazon.com review: "In this rueful tale, written under a simple but pervasive formal constraint, Olympic gold medal winner Ken Honochick and his girlfriend take a cross-country road trip to revisit his brief moment of triumph and his subsequent long haul on the promotions circuit. The result is a smart, flirtatious tour-de-force that's as funny as it is inventive. Under all the comic gusto and technical virtuosity, however, there's also some penetrating thought on our country's obsession with private foibles and public image, individual achievement and the pressure to cash in on it. " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004
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)

New Books and a 1981 Checklist / Rebis Press ; Davids B ; Drucker J., 1981

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Identifier: CC-03271-3320
Dates: 1981
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)

Niagara: A Stereophonic Novel / Butor, Michel ; Elinor S. Miller, translator., 1969

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Identifier: CC-21046-21455
Scope and Contents This is the first American edition of this book.eNotes internet summary: "Niagara both epitomizes the French New Novel of the 1950's and 1960's and bewilders readers expecting traditional plot and character development. It is a work in which very little happens in the usual sense of novelistic action; structure towers over substance and the medium itself is one of the principal messages. Simply put, over the course of a year, groups of representative and interchangeable characters visit Niagara Falls, take the usual tours (on the Maid of the Mist, for example), speak to one another or to themselves, observe the local attractions, and leave. The human action in the novel follows predictably from one chapter (which spans a month's time) to another and is as constant as the flow of the falls.On another level, the novel's action takes place in the mind of the individual reader, who must participate in the work by making judgments, listening, adjusting the volume of what is heard, and...
Dates: 1969
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)

(no subject) / Kervinen, Jukka-Pekka., 2005

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Identifier: CC-45697-47905
Dates: 2005
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)

No.18 / Joseph the Provider ; Beckett S ; Bukowski C ; Burroughs WS ; cummings ee ; Gass W ; Jones D ; Stein G ; Thomas D., 1980

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Identifier: CC-28046-29202
Dates: 1980
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)

No.23 / Joseph the Provider ; Ashbery J ; Beckett S ; Apollinaire G ; Blok A ; Borges J ; Bowles P ; Brainard J ; Bukowski C ; Burroughs WS ; Clark T ; Corso G ; Creeley R ; cummings ee ; Davenport G ; Duncan R ; Jess ; Ferlinghetti L ; Gass W ; Ginsberg A ; Gysin B ; Lewis WP ; McClure M ; Patchen K ; Johnston A ; Stein G ; Smith WJ ; Williams J., 1983

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Identifier: CC-28053-29209
Scope and Contents

The catalogue lists John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, " a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- 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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

No.24 / Joseph the Provider ; Ashbery J ; Brainard J ; Beckett S ; Blok A ; Borges J ; Bowles P ; Brainard J ; Bukowski C ; Burroughs WS ; Clark T ; Creeley R ; Crumb R ; cummings ee ; Duncan R ; Gass W ; Ginsberg A ; Jones D ; Lewis WP ; Olson C ; Ondaatje M ; Patchen K ; Shahn B ; Stein G ; Williams J., 1983

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Identifier: CC-28051-29207
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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

No.29: Prose / Halsey, Alan ; Abish W ; Beckett S ; Breakwell I ; Burroughs WS ; Chopin H ; Creeley R ; Dowden G ; Finch P ; Griffiths B ; Grossinger R ; Higgins D ; Kesey K ; McClure M ; Nuttall J ; Patchen K ; Queneau R ; Stein G ; Themerson S ; Clark T ; Corman C ; cummings ee ; Derrida J ; Fisher R ; Fulton R ; Hausmann R ; Jones D ; Olson C ; Paz O ; Pound E ; Raworth T ; Zukofsky L ; Zurbrugg N., 1983

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Identifier: CC-32799-34412
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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

No.30: A Collection of William Burroughs / Davies, Jordan ; Burroughs WS ; Smith WJ ; Gass W ; Rothenberg J ; Williams J ; Patchen K ; Hamady W ; Olson T., 1985

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Identifier: CC-14833-15146
Dates: 1985
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)

No.30: Advance Copy / Davies, Jordan ; Burroughs WS ; Smith WJ ; Gass W ; Rothenberg J ; Williams J ; Patchen K ; Hamady W ; Olson T ; Nuttall J., 1985

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Identifier: CC-14834-15147
Scope and Contents

Jordan Davies has noted "very unusual & peculiar ephemeral material here - especially My Own Mag." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
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)

No.30: Some Recent Publications / Halsey, Alan ; Abish W ; Clark TA ; Nuttall J., 1983

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Identifier: CC-32800-34413
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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

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