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Language poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 265 Collections and/or Records:

Curvd H&Z: Guava Grey. No.140/Jul / Loris Essary., 1982

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Identifier: CC-18253-18625
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Also designated Hangnail No.6. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

D Rain B Loom, 2006

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Identifier: CC-48475-69504
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Each page of this book is a collaborative poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Denomisegninatura (De Nomi Segni Natural) / Diacono, Mario ; Joyce J., 1962

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Identifier: CC-15319-15643
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The theme of this issue is James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake." Libro d'artista in cui si riscontrano influenze teoriche e linguistiche di James Joyce, di cui Diacono aveva appena tradotto in italiano alcune pagine di Finnegans Wake (1961) Con quest'opera Diacono si manifesta come uno dei più fedeli e coerenti discepoli italiani di Joyce. According to a section entitled "segni," two pages of concrete poetry were composed 1959-60 and are depicted here intwo images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

Doublespace: Poems 1971-1989 / Lazer, Hank ; Bee S., 1992

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Identifier: CC-28440-29705
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This book is structured with traditional poetry comprising the front half of the book and language poetry begining from the back of the book, comprising the second half of the book. Susan Bee designed the book and contributed a painting for the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Doubt, 2000

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Identifier: CC-39285-41232
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The dense poetry is described by Peter Ganick as "pure poetry...not of music, nor words...with something of meaning...with stunning conclusions.......Leftwich has created here a living entity...not to be missed for its reality." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Dr. Sadhu's Muffins, 1974

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Identifier: CC-38248-40144
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In a note at the end of the book, McCaffery indicates that the poems were composed based on existing texts and chance operations. The top of the spine of this copy of the book is missing. This is McCaffery's second book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Drift / Bergvall, Caroline., 2014

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Identifier: CC-60268-10003268
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Caroline Bergvall (born 1962) is a poet of French-Norwegian nationalities who has lived in England since 1989. She was born in Hamburg. She graduated from the Universite de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, from University of Warwick, and from Plymouth University. She was Director of Performance Writing at Darlington College of Arts, from 1994 to 2000. She taught at Cardiff University and Bard College.Bergvall has developed audio texts and collaborative performances with sound artists in Europe and North America; her critical work is largely concerned with emerging forms of writing, plurilingual poetry, and mixed media writing practices, also Performance Writing. Her work often explores archaic versions of languages. A review of 2011's Meddle English: New and Selected Texts in The Brooklyn Rail noted that her essay "Middling English" urges readers and writers working with English to "excavate its fractured and fractious history." [4]She wrote FIG (Goan Atom 2), poetic and...
Dates: 2014

E pod: Two Sections from Legend *. No.2/Sep / Kirby Malone, Marshall Reese, editors ; Andrews B ; Bernstein C ; DiPalma R ; McCaffery S ; Silliman R., 1978

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Identifier: CC-13755-14060
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Legend * is a language poem by Steve McCaffery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Edge / Andrews, Bruce., 1973

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Identifier: CC-24658-25111
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This is the first book published by Andrews. In it, he provides a definition of language poetry, viz., a) fragmentation and quality of words other than (and along with) their meaning, b) stress on texture, sound, rhythm, space and silence, c) less "content" (in the old sense) but hopefully the "language" becomes the content and d) the "individual" words have meanings and associations but these are not yoked together and aimed "outside the poem" at a single externally applied meaning for a poem as a whole. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973