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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1862 Collections and/or Records:

18th Dynasty Egyptian Automobile Turnon / Wagner, D.r. ; levy da., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-00414-425
Scope and Contents

This is the second printing of the book. Pages of the book have progressively larger widths and are printed on various colored stock. The loose sheet written by d.a.levy laments the death of Hernando Gonzalez, a Columbian guerilla. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

18th Dynasty Egyptian Automobile Turnon / Wagner, D.r. ; levy da., 1966

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Identifier: CC-48068-69091
Scope and Contents

This is the second printing of the book. Pages of the book have progressively larger widths and are printed on various colored stock. The loose sheet written by d.a.levy laments the death of Hernando Gonzalez, a Columbian guerilla. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

20 Forties / Mac Low, Jackson ; Tardos A., 1999

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Identifier: CC-37118-38960
Scope and Contents

This book includes 20 poems from "154 Forties," a series that Mac Low has been writing and revising since 1990. The cover was designed by Anne Tardos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

20th Century Typewriting / Lessenberry, D.D.., 1942

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Identifier: CC-52137-73256
Scope and Contents

This is the fourth edition of a two year typewriting course that has marginalia written by a previous owner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1942

22 Light Poems / Mac Low, Jackson., 1968

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Identifier: CC-47580-68589
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book were composed by chance operations through a chart made up of words denoting of all kinds of light. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

22 Light Poems / Mac Low, Jackson., 1968

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Identifier: CC-47581-68590
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book were composed by chance operations through a chart made up of words denoting of all kinds of light. The chart is at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

27th & 4th, 1994

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Identifier: CC-27972-29122
Scope and Contents

The title is the address of the office building in New York City from which Lax observed the cityscape that inspired these poems. A vertical format to the poems layout is seen in these early poems (c.1958) which becomes more fully developed in his later sparer, more meditative poems. The illustrations were drawn by Steve Fairnie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

40 Poem(a)s / cummings, e.e. ; Augusto De Campos, translator., 1986

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Identifier: CC-20304-20701
Scope and Contents

Includes reproductions of the correspondence between cummings and De Campos focusing on the typesetting of the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

50 Poems / cummings, e.e.., 1955

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Identifier: CC-18891-19269
Scope and Contents

This book was first published in 1939 and this copy is an undated reprint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

100 Poems / Evason, Greg., 2001

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Identifier: CC-41087-43068
Scope and Contents

Evason notes that he wrote these poems on a computer while is was suffering from schizoaffective disorder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

176 hieroglyphes dechiffres sur les voutes etoilees du ciel, 2008

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Identifier: CC-60103-10003124
Scope and Contents

Each page contains a poetic interpretation of the eyes and vision and each facing page is a a unique drawing of the eyes in a visionary interpretation -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

1968, A History in Verse / Sanders, Edward ; Ginsberg A ; Kupferberg T ; Rubin J ; Leary T ; Bly R ; Berrigan T ; levy da ; Hoffman A ; McClure M ; Guillevic E ; Hollo A ; Crumb R ; Burroughs WS., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30359-31774
Scope and Contents

This long, biographic poem deals with Sanders' music group, the Fugs, and the political events of 1968, detailing among others the ravages of the Viet Nam war, James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, the Yippies, the CIA, J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Chicago Seven. There are descriptions of the assasinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as well as small black and white scanned, photographic, documentary images, and line drawings of hierogyphics and fragments of calligraphic texts scattered among the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

2004: In a Word / Scher, Paula., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43236-45295
Scope and Contents

An article by Charles McGrath titled the Year of (Your Catchphrase Here) is illustrated by calligraphic colored drawings by Paula Scher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004