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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4884 Collections and/or Records:

The Erik Satie Road-Sign, second version / Furnival, John; Moore, A. Doyle., 1974

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13300-13601
Scope and Contents

A red, triangular road sign in printed over two staves of music by Satie with the expression "Le colonel est la!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

The Eye / Jackman, Sandra., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28749-30056
Scope and Contents

The Hebrew letter Ey-in (eye) is drawn in the center of the card, within a frame painted by Jackman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Eyes Have / Craigie, Peter M.., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-18099-18471
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of a visual/verbal vignette using images of eyes with text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

The Famkiliar: One Rainy Day in May / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2015

 Item
Identifier: CC-60864-10003721
Scope and Contents

This is the first volume of an announced 27 volumes that Dnaielewski proposes to produce.The plot takes place on a single rainy day and follows the story of a girl named Xanther.The plot ranges in time, in place and with characters in bewildering, creative typography, design, language and poetry. As Tom LeClair wrote in his New York Times Book Review,"To reinforce the exoticism of his material Danielewski invents a nearly opaque pidgen English, interspersed with Russian and Chinese printed characters..two other story lines...Los Angeles subcultures." John Williams adds in his review, "Danielewski's novels are brillintly produced, with text that curves away from the page margins, piles on itself until it becomes unintelligible blocks, and changes colores to represent different charctrers or themes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

The Four Suits, 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-27300-27864
Scope and Contents

The title of this book as described by Dick Higgins refers to the four authors of this book who are each identified in the introductions pages to their section by a suite of playing cards, e.g., clubs, hearts, diamonds and spades. Thus, what they have in common is that 1) each is essentially not operating in a media for which they were trained, 2) each is really operating in a medium or mode of activity of their own devising, which 3) lies somewhere between the conventional concept of the seven arts. The name Ben Patterson is used in this citation rather than Benjamin Patterson since all other references in this database refer to Ben not Benjamin Patterson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

The Glass Harmonica / Bok, Christian., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31736-33248
Scope and Contents

First published by CrO2 Press in 1993 as indicated on verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Good Apprentice / Phillips, Tom ; Murdoch, Iris., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-60192-55205
Scope and Contents

Artist dust jacket was designed by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Graphic Works / Phillips, Tom; Hurrell B., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34837-36545
Scope and Contents

This postcard portfolio was accompanied a small exhibition of Phillips' graphic works. The images in this suite held by the Sackner Archive included "Wittgenstein's Dilemma," the original drawings of "A Humument on the Hill" and "Give Me Tomorrow" and "Bill Toge Doing Italy" and "the Bank Manger. The Archive also holds "Salman R. as D.I.Y. Zola" in a limited edition print book, "Beatrice: The Magic Number," the drawing of "Dante on Copacabana Beach" from A Dante Diary, and the silkscreen "Sixteen Appearances of the Union Jack." Bill Hurrell contributed as essay on the background of Phillips work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Heart Of A Humument / Phillips, Tom ; Erskine-Tulloch P., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-55595-52530
Scope and Contents

The bookbinding and clamshell case were made by Pella Erskine-Tulloch. The poem on the front cover reads, writing - my thoughts interlacing fold consciousness, and on the back cover the poem reads Words - words! Make me blossum -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Heart Of A Humument / Phillips, Tom ; Erskine-Tulloch P., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-55615-9999222
Scope and Contents

The bookbinding and clamshell case were made by Pella Erskine-Tulloch. The poem on the front cover reads, will art - fall on - his words, and on the back cover serious, syllables -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985