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Typewriter poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1767 Collections and/or Records:

womb word 1 (051165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-56015-59686
Scope and Contents

This version of the poem is typed on the top portion of the page in four columns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

womb word 2 (051165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-56016-886644
Scope and Contents

This version of the poem is spaced throughout the page in two columns. It contains the date 051165 handwritten probably by Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Word, No Word Please / Gerz, Jochen., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-27440-28488
Scope and Contents

The background text consists of three columns of repetition of "word" typed in lower case. An image of a partially concealed standing man (Gerz?) holding a poster reading "no word please" is placed over the lower left column of text. The image of a hand on trasnslucent paper with a poster reading "no word please" is placed in the lower half of the right sided column. The Archive also holds a larger version of this photograph that Gerz has inscribed to John Furnival. This work is depicted as No.470 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonnne Volume III and mistakingly described as a photocollage rather than a photograph of a it. Presumably, the original has been lost or destroyed. The photograph was purchased from Gerz by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Word, No Word Please / Gerz, Jochen., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-27439-28487
Scope and Contents

The background text consists of three columns of repetition of "word" typed in lower case. An image of a partially concealed standing man (Gerz?) holding a poster reading "no word please" is placed over the lower left column of text. The image of a hand on translucent paper with a poster reading "no word please" is placed in the lower half of the right sided column. The archive also holds a smaller, non-inscribed version of this photograph. This work is depicted as No.470 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonnne Volume III and mistakingly described as a photocollage rather than a photograph of a it. Presumably, the original has been lost or destroyed. The photograph was purchased from Gerz by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Word Press: Five Poems. No.1 / William John Watkins., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-31926-33451
Scope and Contents

Watkins' poems were composed in opposition to the policies of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the Vietnam. This periodical was editied by Richard Van Der Voort of Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Words, 1993

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-26613-27083
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was a retrospective of Andre's typewriter poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

WORDS 1 / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57175-10000495
Scope and Contents

The bottom typed edge states "Is this word a symbol for words or for the word words? What is the word words?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

WORDS 2 / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57168-10000496
Scope and Contents

The page contains WORDS typed in a cross. The bottom typed edge states "The difference between words and the word words is the sound of language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

WORDS 3 / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57169-10000497
Scope and Contents

The page contains WORDS typed randomly and fragmented across the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Words and Images/Those Writing Machines/Typewritten Art and Concrete Poetry / Marvin Sackner, curator ; Bauermeister M ; Burciaga J ; Dupont A ; Fahlstrom O ; Kluge J ; Knapp D ; Lurie S ; MacLow J ; Noel A ; Presser E ; Macia C ; Riveron E ; Andre C ; bissett b ; Broel E ; Chopin H ; Corfou M ; Burda V ; Houedard DS ; Cook G., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-00353-361
Scope and Contents

This catalogue consists of the listings of two exhibitions, viz., "Typewritten Art and Concrete Poetry" drawn solely from the Sackner Archive, and "Words and Images" from the Sackner Archive and other collections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Works 1965-1972 Volume 1, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27400-28443
Scope and Contents

This book was compiled by jw curry from unpublished (?) concrete poems of bp Nichol's early work which were composed by typings or writings. curry had access to these works through cataloging of Nichol's archive. These works emphasize the diversity and intelligence of Nichol's typewriter poetry; the calligraphic works are presented with far less examples. The cited authors in this book consist of those whom Nichol composed a poem in their style or as an homage to them. The covers of the book have been collaged with a dust jacket created from an overprinting of a cover by Coach House Press entitled, 'New Wave Canada.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Works 1965-1972 Volume 2, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27401-28444
Scope and Contents

This book was compiled by jw curry from unpublished (?) concrete poems of bp Nichol's early work which were composed by typings or writings. curry had access to these works through cataloging of Nichol's archive. He has had access to such work through his cataloging of Nichol's archive. The works emphasize the diversity and intelligence of Nichol's typewriter poetry; the calligraphic works are presented with far less examples. The cited authors in this book consist of those whom Nichol composed a poem in their style or as an homage to them. The covers of the book have been collaged with a dust jacket created from an overprinting of a cover by Coach House Press entitled, 'New Wave Canada.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Works 1965-1972 Volume 3, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27402-28445
Scope and Contents

This book was compiled by jw curry from unpublished (?) concrete poems of bp Nichol's early work which were composed by typings or writings. curry had access to these works through cataloging of Nichol's archive. The works in this volume emphasize Nichol's visual poems and concrete poems made with letraset.; the typewriter poems are presented with far less examples. The covers of the book have been collaged with a dust jacket created from an overprinting of a cover by Coach House Press entitled, 'New Wave Canada.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

wrecking ballzark, th: Theory 1-4. No.63/Mar / bp Nichol., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-52074-73179
Scope and Contents

Also designated th wrecking ballzark #63. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984