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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 565 Collections and/or Records:

The Black Debt, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-38385-40289
Scope and Contents

The book consists of two novellas, "Lag" and "Effect of Cellophane." Lag was written with only commas and Effect of Cellophane without punctuation. Both stories are printed without paragraph separations. -- 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: Books (unprocessed)

The Bonnyclabber / Chambers, George., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-16884-17240
Dates: 1972
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)

The Book of Breething, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-21034-21443
Scope and Contents

This book was illustrated by Bob Gale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
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

The Book of Coming Forth in Official Secrecy: 1st Copy / Halsey, Alan., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-09211-9392
Scope and Contents

This book is based upon "The Egyptian Book of the Dead" with a setting in a modern missile base. The cover depicts a concrete poetic design of the title printed on yellow stock paper. The book was subsquently published in a second edition in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books (unprocessed)

The Book of Coming Forth in Official Secrecy 2nd Edition / Halsey, Alan., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-31702-33211
Scope and Contents

This book is based on "The Egyptian Book of the Dead" but it is set within a modern missile base. This is the second edition of a book first published in 1981. This edition has larger page dimensions than the first, is printed better, and the title is printed on red stock paper in the shape of pyramid rather than the concrete poetic-like design. -- 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 (unprocessed)

The Book of Coming Forth in Official Secrecy / Halsey, Alan., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-31705-33215
Scope and Contents

This book is based upon "The Egyptian Book of the Dead" with a setting in a modern missile base. The cover depicts a concrete poetic design of the title printed on yellow stock paper. The book was subsquently published in a second edition in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books (unprocessed)

The Book of During , 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-18790-19166
Dates: 1991
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

The Braille Film with a Counterscript by William S. Burroughs / Weissner, Carl ; Burroughs WS ; Pelieu C ; Vostell W ; MacLean A., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-46794-49526
Scope and Contents

This book was written using the cut-up technique popularized by William S Burroughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
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)

The Case for the Burial of Ancestors; Book 3 / Zelevansky, Paul., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00049-48
Dates: 1991
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)

The Case for the Burial of Ancestors; Book 3 / Zelevansky, Paul., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00050-49
Dates: 1991
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)

The Case for the Burial of Ancestors / Zelevansky, Paul ; Kostelanetz R., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-00048-47
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

The Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus: Four Novels, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-21306-21716
Scope and Contents

The four novels are titled: "Out," "Such," "Between," and "Thru." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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 (processed) / BOOKS

The Cosmographical Lobster / Chopin, Henri ; Jean Chopin, translator., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-16987-17343
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 (unprocessed)

The Cosmographical Lobster [Deluxe Edition] / Chopin, Henri ; Jean Chopin, translator., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-16988-17344
Scope and Contents

The French edition was published by Review OU in 1966. -- 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 (unprocessed)

The Cross-Country Ski, Cook, Look & Pleasure Book... / Painter, Hal., 1973

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Identifier: CC-04083-4161
Dates: 1973
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)

The Cure / Brunsdon, Jyoti., 1992

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Identifier: CC-23387-23829
Scope and Contents This book was designed by Mike Hudson and type set by Jadwiga Jarvis. In Jarvis' essay on letterpress printing and documentation of the books published by Wayzgoose, she writes the following. It was presented to the press as a typed manuscript but careful rereadings revealed that the story was a sonata form. The basic elements which are a exposition, development and recapitulation. In the exposition, the emphasis is on contrast (even conflict) and the development and recapitulationare areas of tonal flux , usually a modulating or changing key. Brunsdon used the sonata form to indicate one woman's passage from sanity to madness. Jarvis and Hudson "set the text in a mixture of sans serif fonts (contrast & conflict) and printed the book in three shades of olive green (modulation & key changes). The lightest of the lines dealing with the protagonist's innermost thoughts, a medium shade for the composed,impersonal front she presented to the world, and an almost-but-not-quite...
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: Books (unprocessed)

The Deceivers / Bester, Alfred., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-21379-21790
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: Books (unprocessed)

The Demolished Man / Bester, Alfred., 1953

 Item
Identifier: CC-23795-24243
Scope and Contents

This is Bester's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1953
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)

The Demolished Man (reprint) / Bester, Alfred., 1988

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Identifier: CC-23794-24242
Dates: 1988
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)

The Double / Boyd, Greg., 2002

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Identifier: CC-42328-44338
Scope and Contents Review from the Library Journal: A rich, intriguing maze of a "novel," this work packs more literary punch than most books twice the heft. The central text is about Jeff, a factory worker, whose life unravels when the "other" Jeff sabotages his job, relationships, and even dreams. Boyd (Sacred Hearts) opens with a life-or-death struggle between them in a graveyard and circles back in the "end." This battle might seem like a metaphor for an id-superego conflict or even multiple-personality disorder, but it's actually more complicated than that-the "real" Jeff ends up fighting back, complicating the double's more exciting life and leading readers to question who the "real" Jeff is. Over half of the book consists of brilliant short stories, allegories, and fairy tales contained in 14 appendixes and 22 annotations. Each could stand alone, but all enhance both the main story and one another. Boyd's writing is by turns gritty, darkly humorous, ironic, and elegant. -- Source of...
Dates: 2002
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)

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