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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1083 Collections and/or Records:

Out of WordS / Endwar ; Aylward D ; Williams E ; Ulrichs T., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43333-45393
Scope and Contents

Endwar titles a poem from a word(s) and fragments it(them) into clusters and spaces, while retaining the same order of the letters, to form a new poem which can be read from top to bottom. In the folded sheet, endwar explains his poetry as subverse poetry, a type of subtractive, permutational or anagrammatic poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

[ovik zip] / Hill, Crag., 1984

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Identifier: CC-60010-10003046
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibiton was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

OW 2 / Cobbing, Bob., 1996

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Identifier: CC-20825-21233
Scope and Contents

This is the last book made on Cobbing's original photocopying machine. It broke down in 1996 and was replaced. The replacement was funded by the Sackners who received a few of Cobbing's concrete poetry wall works in exchange for the money. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Oxen of the Sun, Ulysses / Joyce, Paul., 1997

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Identifier: CC-41568-43558
Scope and Contents

Paul Joyce is the great grandnephew of James Joyce. This print uses texts from the chapter, Oxen of the Sun, in James Joyce's Ulysses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Pagina 1979, 1979

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-15985-16320
Scope and Contents

This drawing has an appearance of an abstract train in a landscape or seascape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Paint Me a Picture/Make Me a Poem / Blei, Norbert ; Beuys J ; Patchen K ; Duchamp M., 1987

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Identifier: CC-21385-21796
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Paul Schroeder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Paper Re Making Book No.089 (Kafka: The Metamorphosis) / Kocman, J.H.., 1981

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Identifier: CC-07917-10002497
Scope and Contents

Kocman requested the Sackners to send him five paperback copies of Kafka's novel "The Metamorphosis" and that he would return a surprise to them. The novel describes the tribulations of Gregor Samsa who as he "awoke one morning from uneasy dreams found himself transformed into a gigantic insect..." Kocman took the books that the Sackners had sent him, pulped the pages and formed handmade paper pages bound them into a book literally metamorphosizing "The Metamorphosis." This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

[Paper Strips], 1987

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21834-22245
Scope and Contents

Poem object consists of bag with cut-up paper text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Paperback: Condensed Edition, 1993

 Item — Box 283: [Barcode: 31858073143418]
Identifier: CC-20492-20889
Scope and Contents

Consists of torn pieces of paper from a paperback novel packed within a transparent box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Parables On Dropping Out / Marcus, Aaron., 1971

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Identifier: CC-41869-43864
Scope and Contents

Marcus greatly enlarged the letters of the words in this book to bleed across the pages to make the text illegible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Particulars / Cory, Jean-Jacques., 1980

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Identifier: CC-20497-20894
Scope and Contents

Cory is a pseudonym of Richard Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980