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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 911 Collections and/or Records:

Collected Poems Volume One: Cygnet Ring [Performance Copy] / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-17607-17975
Scope and Contents

Cobbing used the structure of the original book and added poems for a performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Collected Poems Volume Six: Sockless in Sandals / Cobbing, Bob ; Finch P., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-17304-17668
Scope and Contents

This volume contains poetry from 1976 through July 1985. In his intoductory essay, Peter finch writes that these works are modernist in the found tradition of Duchamp. Many poems are transformed pieces of lists and information reorganized by Cobbing who also performs the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Collective Copy (5 + 6 + 7) / Olbrich, Jurgen., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-60357-52948
Scope and Contents

The documentation for this project is mentioned in arnyekkotok electrographic art Vol.4 No.2; the latter issue is also held by the Sackner Archive. The recipiente pf this book included among others., Ruth & Marvin Sackner, Bart Boumans, David Zac k, and Emmett Walsh, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Com. Mix. / Kriwet, Ferdinand., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-27301-27865
Scope and Contents

The title abbreviations Com.Mix. stand for Communication Mixture. This book presents mainly typographic images that Kriwet collected from the American and German landscapes, e.g., signs on store fronts, directional signs, trade marks, TV screens, ideograms and logos. He also utilized multiple illustrations of early texts, maps, illustrations, ancient languages and symbols and related them to analogous contemporary images. For example, Kriwet juxtaposed one of his concrete poems arranged as a mandala with an early German poem also written this way. Another category of illustrations are documentary photographs of Kriwet working on his installation projects. Several photographs show, "Walk Talk," a work held by the Sackner Archive. The images are fully documented with notes of reference for each illustration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Come In We're Closed / Sorry We're Open, 2007

 Item — Box 206: [Barcode: 31858072460128]
Identifier: CC-47890-68912
Scope and Contents

Stored in Tipping's "Sign Here" box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Composition [French Drifter] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12930-13222
Scope and Contents

The poem consists of an array of names for Scottish fishing ships presumably arranged while anchored and fishing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Concrete / Sackner, Sara., 1978 - 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-43505-45577
Scope and Contents

Sara Sackner made this unique book based on the Archive collection of Russian Avant Garde books and concrete poetry. The hand woven pages are stitched onto painted Russian words on a golden background. The final page, dedicated to her parents, contains an English translation of a Russian poem about a concrete factory. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1981

Connotations / Gibbs, Michael., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-10208-10409
Scope and Contents

One of the drawings depicted in this book, the poem, Grid/Shift by Gibbs, is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

[Consumerville Box] / Furnival, John., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-13263-13564
Scope and Contents

This partially completed, archival, flip-lid box collaged with product labels on inside and outside sufaces is among the first of Furnival's visual poetic labeled collaged boxes. It contains a certification and an astronomy map of a star named after Marvin Sackner that was a birthday gift from Majorie Weber on his 70th birthday, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Cosmic Comics / Nova, Gary Lee., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-33197-34827
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book depict ancient engravings related to space travel and diagrams of brain functions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Coupe Net, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-39342-41292
Scope and Contents

This book contains texts, images, collages, graphics and photographs by the two authors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Cover for Palpi No.8 / Fencott, P.C.., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-12823-13110
Scope and Contents

PALPI is the acronym for Poetry and Little Press Information; the issue for this cover design is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Cover Stories / Dellafiora, David, curator., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-49715-70768
Scope and Contents

Cover Stories was an exhibition of altered covers, primarily through collage, of popular novels. It was created for Geelong Arts Alliance's exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

CRCNCL / Porter, Bern ; Wakest, Liaizon ; Gillespie AL., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-48891-69928
Scope and Contents

This second edition of the book has been digitized and the images are now colored in contrast to the b&w photocopies in the first edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008