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In this extensive anthology, several examples of Constantine Xenakis' works are depicted; his work is represented in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This anthology traces the historic roots of concrete and visual poetics through numerous illustrations to contemporary times. Franz Mon's "Collage" of 1965 (Decollage) depicted on page 81 is held by the Sackner Archive. The originals of Ruutsalo's "Textfilm" reproduced on page 96 are also held by the Sackner Archive. The book includes a section that shows employment of concrete and visual poems in commercial advertisements. The cover depicts a reproduction of a collage by Jochen Gerz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This anthology traces the historic roots of concrete and visual poetics through numerous illustrations to contemporary times. Franz Mon's "Collage" of 1965 (Decollage) depicted on page 81 is held by the Sackner Archive. The originals of Ruutsalo's "Textfilm" reproduced on page 96 are also held by the Sackner Archive. The book includes a section that shows employment of concrete and visual poems in commercial advertisements. The cover depicts a reproduction of a collage by Jochen Gerz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Although this book deals mainly with ancient poetry, attention is also paid to contemporary poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Adam McLean contributed an introduction, commentary, and was responsible for the layout and production of this reprint, hand bound book dealing with occult traditions. This is a reprint with translations of a book first published in 1602; the 1602 edition has been offered on the internet for $24,000. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book of English Renaissance poetry and criticism was first published in 1589. This new edition provides a 71 page introductory biography of Puttenham. Shaped poems are printed on pages 182-186 of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book explores the ways in which books represent art and literature, and how the marriage of word and image can create a work of art in its own right. Chapters include the following: Illumination, Bindings, Documentary Manuscripts, Children's Books, Comics, Poetry and Experimental Typography, Book Art and Contemporary Art and Publishing. It also includes a history of the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Several examples of the books depicted in this catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive. In addition, several of the contemporary artist/poets works are represented in the Archive.Some definitions are of the book/poetry forms are not in the mainstream of classification. For example, Bob Cobbing's abstract sound poetry scores are classified as visual poetry in contrast to the more usual classification of visual poetry along the lines of poesia visiva.Under the citation of the John-Eric Broaddus book, Marvin Sackner's comments about his working methods are...

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This Haggadah is a Hebrew manuscript facsimile of the mid-15th century from the collections of the British Library written and illuminated by Joel Ben Simeon called Feibusch Ashkenazi with a commentary attributed to Eleazar Ben Judah of Worms. Introduction, notes on the illuminations, transcription and English translation by David Goldstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue documents a reading performance at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on August 16, 1992. The text was written in 1848. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a facsimile of the poem along with an introductory essay. The previous owner was Dick Higgins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is Cook's original translation from the Latin for the poem that appears in his book, Venantius Fortunatus: A Basket of Chestnuts, page 49. The typed version is done in red and black but in the printed version bold face type was substituted for t -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This Lost Book of Pradise, the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, is restored by the author from old manuscripts and ancient longings. "It is a poetic rendering of a paradise stormy with emotional deprivation and strife." Rosenberg imagines a lost Hebraic culture and probes the relationship of Adam and Eve to nature and its promise of change and growth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This Lost Book of Pradise, the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, is restored by the author from old manuscripts and ancient longings. "It is a poetic rendering of a paradise stormy with emotional deprivation and strife." Rosenberg imagines a lost Hebraic culture and probes the relationship of Adam and Eve to nature and its promise of change and growth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page of this Gospel lectionary, currently in the Pierpont Morgan Library, was copied by scribes in the form of a cross. It is one of three manuscripts made in Constantinople around the middle of the twelth century and the only one that contains narrative illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is a Ph.D. thesis whose purpose was to trace the appearance of shapes in English poetry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Church found that the pattern poetry had its origins in Greek and Hindi literature. Greek literature contains six examples of pattern poetry: an axe, an egg, a pair of wings, a shepard's pipe, and two alters. Church defines Carmina Quadrata as verses that contain as many lines as each line contains letters. Within these boxlike poems are acrostics, telestichs, and many pictures and designs. The pictures are formed by either capitalizing the letters which outline the figure or by writing them in inks of various colors. Quincunx are poems arranged in oblique lines that can be read from either the upper or lower levels to make sense with either choice (p.51). Pattern poems reached the Anglo-Saxon literature in the 8th century. Alcuin of York wrote two Carmina Quadrata addressed to the cross. Hrabamus Maurus was one of Alcuin's followers. In 1573, pattern poetry...

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This book was conceived and directed by Harriet Bart and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo. Bart writes that she searches "for ancient, small quotidian objects and early signs of writing. Countless treasures of the daily capture my imagination...Objects and inscriptions, beautiful and mysterious, carry forth their secret stories and the everyday poetry of praise." Each page of found poetry is recreated by Barth and contains a unique gilded geometric form. the binding is by Jill Jevne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.