Typewriter poetry

Music Combo 2 / Singleton, Frank., 2014

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Identifier: CC-59116-10002235

Dates: 2014

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Music Combo / Singleton, Frank., 2010

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Identifier: CC-58199-10001453

Dates: 2010

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Music / McCarthy, Cavan., 1966

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Identifier: CC-53442-100111

Scope and Contents

The leaflets have either one to three letters, o's, a colon, a period, or a slash. The reader is instructed to speak every 'o' & clap every period sign. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Mutation [54] / Ovcacek, Eduard., 1962

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Identifier: CC-57587-10000865

Dates: 1962

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

mw + / Mairey, Francoise., 2002

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Identifier: CC-59852-10002903

Scope and Contents

Card No.18 was scanned into record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

M/W (original version) / UU, David., 1966

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Identifier: CC-48430-69457

Scope and Contents

This concrete poem about Adam and Eve was typed on blue paper in 1966 as the original manuscript. It was retyped in 1983 for High C on white paper (rebuilt version). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

M/W [Rebuilt Version for High C] / UU, David., 1983

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Identifier: CC-48431-69458

Scope and Contents

This concrete poem about Adam and Eve was typed on blue paper in 1966 as the original manuscript. It was retyped in 1983 for High C on white paper (rebuilt version). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

MY COUNTRY / Nikonova, Rea., 1995

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Identifier: CC-60303-10003303

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This work was included in pete spence's archive. This poem deals with the political situation in Russia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

my dear bill / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56635-10000034

Scope and Contents

The name bill at the top of this letter and luv at the bottom of the letter are typed with closely spaced dashes. Bill's idenity is unknown to the Sackners. The poem typed within two separate frames consisting of apostrophes read:" could be a beauty s in even the greyness somewhere a wimd enforces the freedom of water?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

my dear john [furnival] (220264) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH; Sharkey JJ; Wright E; Morgan E; Hollo A; Stone B; Roth D; Gomringer E; DeCampos A; Chopin H; Garnier P., 1964

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Identifier: CC-43530-45603

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The body of this letter deals with making an introduction to John Furnival and dropping names of concrete poets prominent on the international scene. The left margin has several concrete poems by Houedard typed in black ink. Houedard typed his name at the bottom of the letter by forming each letter by overtyping the letter 'e'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

my dear moonthought [david medalla] (260268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Medalla D., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56314-59740

Scope and Contents This letter typed on tissue paper is addressed to "my dear moonthought here is a wee machinepome on luv." The upper section gives instructions for six poems, the middle section is a typed square of luv and the bottom section designates four lines of instructions. This work was to be used for the LeicesterArts Festival. Wikipedia: David Medalla (born 1942) is a Filipino international artist. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in London, New York and Paris. Medalla was born in Manila, the Philippines, in 1942. At the age of 12 he was admitted at Columbia University in New York upon the recommendation of American poet Mark van Doren and studied ancient Greek drama with Moses Hadas, modern drama with Eric Bentley, modern literature with Lionel Trilling, modern philosophy with John Randall and attended the poetry workshops of Leonie Adams. In the late 1950s he returned to Manila and met Jaime Gil de Biedma...

Dates: 1968

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams / Smith, William Jay ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2012

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Identifier: CC-60650-10003521

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was one of the most acclaimed, popular, and controversial American playwrights of the twentieth century. The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof are all considered classics of modern theatre, and their characters and situations are iconic representations of the postwar South.In his early years, Williams concentrated his literary talents just as intently on poetry as on plays. Watching over him during this critical learning period was his close friend William Jay Smith (b. 1918), who met Williams in St. Louis as both were embarking on careers as writers. Smith would go on to publish thirteen collections of poetry and an epic sequence of poems describing the forced removal of Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. Both Smith and Williams were affected profoundly by memories of childhood and adolescence in Louisiana and Mississippi, and those experiences shaped their subsequent, mature work once they moved out...

Dates: 2012

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)