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Typewriter poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1812 Collections and/or Records:

Indicatif II / Furnival, John; Chopin, Henri., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-12348-12574
Scope and Contents

This differs from the varient copy which has pages from Dorothy and R.E.M. that was made in 1970 and includes the matted prints of Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Indicatif II [Varient Copy] / Furnival, John; Chopin, Henri; Furnival, Astrid., 1970

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Identifier: CC-13142-13440
Scope and Contents

This unique varient copy has the same typewriter poem prints and reel to reel tape by Chopin as the original edition, but the Furnival prints differ and this copy has an embroidered flag by Astrid Furnival that was shown in the "Dorothy" exhibition at Bear Lane Gallery in 1966. Finally, although the boxes are the same, the covers have different collaged elements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Inferno E Paradiso / Hirsal, Josef; Grogerova, Bohumila., 1961

 Item
Identifier: CC-62639-47891
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Dante's Divine Comedy. The Sackner Archive also holds the second version typed in English (1992) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Inkling's: Poems 1971-74 / Gathercole, Rod ; Hewett R., 1975

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Identifier: CC-35091-36819
Scope and Contents

The fold-out page has eight panels, each containing a typewriter poem. The poems are composed of parentheses and punctuation marks and given titles, often using the parentheses as a metaphor for mussels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

ION / Mott, Michael., 1971

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Identifier: CC-58586-10001813
Scope and Contents

The artist composed the work on an Olympia Splendid 99. In a personal communication to Marvin Sackner in 2013, Mott stated that his typewritings were influenced by Margaret, his first wife's (died in 1990) weavings plus reading on knots, quipu, etc and not by the reading of Monk's Pond that he was unaware of until the 1980s. He further mentioned that he employed "various degrees of pressure to give variations and life to the work." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

is for th use of th peopul / bissett, bill., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-48347-69372
Scope and Contents

This poem was reproduced in Dust No.16. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[I's on White] / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

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Identifier: CC-56709-10000095
Scope and Contents

This piece contains two blocks of over-typing of I's on a field of single I's. It also is damaged with two holes within the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

It Was the Thought That Counted / Lubbock, Tom; Houedard DS., 2000

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Identifier: CC-33914-35586
Scope and Contents

Lubbock reviews an exhibition at Whitechapel titled "Live in Your Head." In it he writes, "In the age of ink jet and laser printing, it's amazing to see a text-based art that's so happy with the manual Olivetti. (But a conter-example: the most beautiful works in the show are the typewriter drawings of of the Benedictine concrete poet - lower case, please - dom sylvester houedard.)" This article along with its scanned counterpart and the cover of the exhibition catalogue is stored in the Houedard ephemeral and printed matter portfolio box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

jean cocteau in pace / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-55815-9999339
Scope and Contents

Wikipedia: Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau( 5 July 1889 "“ 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles (1929), and the films Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949). His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf and Raymond Radiguet. Houedard's epitaph to Cocteau probably relates to pace, the Latin word for peace. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-16341-16691
Scope and Contents

Depicts reproductions of this work, four drawings to each page arranged in a grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

join the flag / Gerz, Jochen., 1968

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Identifier: CC-27512-28567
Scope and Contents

A cluster of i's float above the word "jo ntheflag," an image that suggests there is a large group of individuals who wish to remain outside conventionality. In this image of the poem, three of the 'i's' show remnants of erasure. This differs from the smaller version No.495 that has different remnants of erasure. This typing is not included in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

join the flag [small version] / Gerz, Jochen., 1968

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Identifier: CC-27453-28501
Scope and Contents

A cluster of i's float above the word "jo ntheflag," an image that suggests there is a large group of individuals who wish to remain outside of conventionality. In this image of the poem, one of the 'i's' and a left-sided parenthesis symbol show remnants of erasure. This typing is designated No.495 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. Another version on a larger sheet of paper has more erasures and is not included in the Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968