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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4884 Collections and/or Records:

The Space Below This Printing Is For Future Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren, Great Great Grandchildren..., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-33364-35003
Scope and Contents

The drawing lists the names of the Sackners' children and grandchildren in 1991. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Spirit Is Breathing: Documentation / Furnival, John., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10838-11048
Scope and Contents

This is the background material of the many languages used by Furnival for his standing screen, "The Spirit is Breathing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Spirit Is Breathing / John Furnival., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10775-10985
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. This screen of three hinged panels and a moveable panel of the letter "A" with recto-verso imagery is written in several languages with text alluding to the title. The five vowel sounds, especially the "A" are incorporated as major features of the design because vowels are the "only letters in the alphabet that represent sound made by breathing alone." The "A" is made prominent because it symbolizes creation. This standing screen is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) on page 83. However, it is mislabeled as "Vowel Screen" (1986). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Squadron, 1968

 Item — Folder 69: [Barcode: 31858072538030]
Identifier: CC-16014-16355
Scope and Contents

The poem consists of nine horizontally placed black colored hearts that simulate a group of flying airplanes. Their black color rather than conventional red is an anti-war protest (Vietnam). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Terrific Days of Summer, 1998

 Item — Folder 5: [Barcode: 31858072459435]
Identifier: CC-30398-31817
Scope and Contents

This is a prospectus for a new book by the press with supplemental information by one of its proprietors in a letter to the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Tibetan Stroboscope / levy, d.a.., 1968

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Identifier: CC-07407-7551
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of the book of the same title on white paper stock printed in red ink. Original copies are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Twelve, and the Scythians / Blok, Alexander ; Jack Lindsay, translator., 1982

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Identifier: CC-22400-22823
Scope and Contents

Includes illustrations by Yuri Annenkov, which appeared in first edition published in Moscow in 1918. The original of this book is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

the uneasy birth (140567) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56807-10000176
Scope and Contents

The full title of the recto side reads 'the uneasy birth of a moral consciousness' and on the verso side, 'archeological and literary material.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

the uneasy birth (140567) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56807-10000176
Scope and Contents

The full title of the recto side reads 'the uneasy birth of a moral consciousness' and on the verso side, 'archeological and literary material.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Unknown Loved by the Knowns [Brion Gysin] / Kennedy, Randy; Gysin B; Burroughs WS; Giorno J., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51188-72276
Scope and Contents

This is a review of an exhibition of the work of Brion Gysin at the New Museum in New York. The curator, Laura Hoptman writes that "in her minds eye Brion Gysin will finally emerge, fully formed, in this retrospective as the artist he really was...This wil be one version of him, And maybe someday all the musicians he knew and all the people he slept with or all the people he had influenced so deeply will end up giving us their own Brion Gysins." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

The Visual-Narative Matrix: Interdisciplinary Collisions and Collusions / Coulter-Smith, Graham, editor ; Schwartzburg M ; Phillips T., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35762-37519
Scope and Contents

Molly Schwartzburg contributed an essay, "Tracing Traces: Variations on the Theme of the Palimsest in Tom Phillips' A Humument. She concludes that "the palimsestic elements of this book suggest that what we construct is not a stable object. Instead, texts as we read them can only function as parts of a shifting set of relationships determined by the fact of reading." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000