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Visual poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4852 Collections and/or Records:

Smegma. No.2/Apr / Alex Hirka, editor ; Cleveland B., 1979

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Identifier: CC-49045-70083
Scope and Contents

Scarletina Lust man be a nonde plume for Alex Hirka, the editor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Solocoptro (after decampos) / Torres, Edwin., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53727-642805
Scope and Contents This print was commissioned by the Telephone Journal for the exhibition at The EFA Foundation "Telefone Sem Fio: Word-Things of Augusto de Campos Revisited" from November 4 - December 17, 2011. [The Sackner Archive lent an original manuscript and limited edition works to this exhibition]. From the catalogue, the following citation was printed. "This piece is an homage to the mantras I read within de Campos's aesthetics"”where words transmute into each other as they roll over their own repetition"”creating breath within breath, an echo of language as it shape shifts past surface-meaning into base-origin, the primal sound underneath. I also wanted to walk in the minimalism of his graphic sensibility while inserting a charge of my own. His piece "CODIGO" spoke to me in its graphic vertigo. I read "GOD" in the letterforms, a circular oneness, a vortex that traps while liberating, perhaps my own illusions revealed. I went off on that tangent, designing the G-O-D letter forms into a...
Dates: 2011