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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4852 Collections and/or Records:

The Parchment Is Burning , 1985

 Item — Folder 68: [Barcode: 31858072538022]
Identifier: CC-25655-26113
Scope and Contents

The full title of this print, a quote from Rabbi Hanina Ben Tradyon, is "The Parchment is Burning but the Letters are Flying Free." It depicts Hebrew letters arranged randomly above a collaged, burnt surface of paper at the bottom of the print. Tradyon was an ancient Talmudic scholar who was executed for his beliefs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

the peerless Mantra / Petasz, Pawel., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-39975-41942
Scope and Contents

Petasz's visual works generally feature a single letter; in this piece, it is an "I." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Philadelphia Love / Indiana, Robert., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-08365-8531
Scope and Contents

Folio contains offset lithographic version of Indiana's "Love" poem and "Wherefore the Punctuation of the Heart." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Pillow Book; ...Pillow Book: A Record of How the Text Developed through Exchange / Cole, David ; Shonagon, Sei ; Stetser, Carol., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-59853-10002906
Scope and Contents

Sei Shonagon was a lady-in-waiting at the court of the Japanese Empress in 990 A.D. who kept a note book on the people, places and things she encountered in her daily life. Cole and Stetser used these notes as the basis for their collaboration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Pillow Book; ...Pillow Book: A Record of How the Text Developed through Exchange (Collector's Edition) / Cole, David ; Shonagon, Sei ; Stetser, Carol., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-18332-18704
Scope and Contents

Sei Shonagon was a lady-in-waiting at the court of the Japanese Empress in 990 A.D. who kept a note book on the people, places and things she encountered in her daily life. Cole and Stetser used these notes as the basis for their collaboration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Poet Considers His Resources, 1979

 Item — Folder 63: [Barcode: 31858072537974]
Identifier: CC-22278-22700
Scope and Contents

Poem by R. Bradbury. Designed and printed by R. Bigus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Portal - for Marvin & Ruth Sackner / Topel, Andrew., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-53352-100051
Scope and Contents

A smaller version with a colored figure is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

the portal / Topel, Andrew., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-52924-74064
Scope and Contents

The image was generated with a computer and then printed from a computer file by an internet service. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

The Reduced Einstein Equations / Ruthven, Robert., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-31020-32481
Scope and Contents

The papers used are a page of Einstein equations partially covered with a page of the poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" by William Wordsworth. The selected text is outlined in a manner reminiscent of the style used by Tom Phillips in his "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Revolutionary and other poems / Morris, Stephen., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-38235-40131
Scope and Contents

This book was first published in 1972, revised in 1975 and reprinted in 1976 and 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977