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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4884 Collections and/or Records:

Cairns: Di Profilo. No.4 / Alberto Vitacchio., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-20251-20648
Scope and Contents

Editerd by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Cal-ligrames poeticovisuals, 2002

 Item — Box Ahe-Alt: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-40080-42049
Scope and Contents

Laura Lopez Fernandez wrote the introduction to this catalogue. She visited the Sackner Archive in December 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Call of the Wild, 1991

 Item — Box 265: [Barcode: 31858072460540]
Identifier: CC-23108-23545
Scope and Contents

The poem object consists of six cloth breathing masks onto which is painted "HELP!" in individual letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Calligraphic Decorated Cubic Box displayed in Jarry E La Patafisica Exhibition (1983) / Sanesi, Roberto., 1983

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Identifier: CC-59606-65096
Scope and Contents The Sackner attended the Pataphsica exhibition where this work was displayed. The Guardian February 12, 1970, Mel Godding obituary: "Roberto Sanesi, who has died aged 70, was one of the most remarkable Italian writers of his generation. A highly accomplished and prolific poet, he was capable of working in a great variety of metrical forms, and was a master of free verse. His poetry, always imbued with a certain intellectuality, ranged extensively from the confessional and anecdotal to the philosophical and metaphysical, and he could shift register with extraordinary skill, from the lyrical to the factual to the speculative, within the bound of a single poem. In this respect he had learned much from TS Eliot and Ezra Pound, whose formal diversities and virtuoso uses of poetic impersonality he adapted with great originality to his own purposes in Italian. Sanesi was also a major translator of English and American poetry, making available for the first time much of the historical and...
Dates: 1983

Cammini/Inversioni / Miglietta, Enzo., 1992

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Identifier: CC-06492-6611
Scope and Contents

This drawing composed with black and red inks on blue paper has a quasi-Moire effect when viewed from a distance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Canadian Art. No.1/Spr / Racine R., 1993

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Identifier: CC-20274-20671
Scope and Contents

The essay "Rober Racin's Magnum Opus" by Peggy Gale states that "in his peregrinations through history, music and art, this Montreal master of many media pursues a kind of fine madness." His technique and justification for making the "pages-miroirs," from the Petit Robert dictionary, two of which are held by the Sackner Archive, are described in detail. For example, a black square marks the 3 longest definitions on the page. Each time the defined word appears, it is underlined and gilded, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Canto Pisano /Canti Pisani - N.2 / Baroni, Vittore., 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Be: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-21706-22117

Canto Pisano / Canti Pisani - N.3, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Be: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-21702-22113