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Language poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 265 Collections and/or Records:

All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems / Bernstein, Charles., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51032-72112
Scope and Contents Craig Morton Teicher Amazon.com: Charles Bernstein is not just a theorist of poetry but of language itself. The ideas guiding his creative work might be summarized, albeit reductively, like this: Words are meaningless in themselves, and find significance only when we agree upon a definition. Bernstein's poetry tends to draw attention to the slipperiness of words, and to reload them with new, and sometimes better, meanings. All the Whiskey in Heaven, his first book from a major publisher and required reading for poetry enthusiasts, selects from the dozens of works the author has written over the past 35 years. Don't look here for intensely felt personal recollections or anything referencing particular biography. Instead, you'll find verbal collages in many different forms. One of the foundational figures of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E movement, Bernstein likes to borrow from various sources"”political discourse, personal correspondence, mental-health literature and advertising"”and see what...
Dates: 2010

An Alphabet of Lipograms / Coleman, Victor ; Collins, Paul., 2008

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Identifier: CC-49136-70176
Scope and Contents

This work consists of brief, individual poems using lipograms of A through H. It relates to Coleman's other book of lipograms, "Mal Arme (Letter Drop III)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

An Incomplete Natural History / O'Sullivan, Maggie., 1984

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Identifier: CC-47145-49885
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Maggie O'Sullivan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

(and) / Fitzsimmons, Greg ; Sonnenfeld, Mark., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34630-36331
Scope and Contents

Subtitled "the collaboration chapbook." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Axiom of Torn Pulley / Beining, Guy R.., 1995

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Identifier: CC-31578-33075
Scope and Contents

Of 42 copies published, 30 were distributed to the friends of author and publisher; only 12 were sold to the public. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995