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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1862 Collections and/or Records:

A Mingling of Streams / Beake, Fred, editor ; Cobbing B ; Griffiths B ; Morgan E ; Bielski A ; Halsey A., 1989

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Identifier: CC-23028-23465
Scope and Contents

The book is an anthology of poems selected from "The Poet's Voice" and produced by the Salzburg Studies in English Literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

A Necessarily Vague Outline of "Making Tracks" / curry, jw; lefler P., 1993

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Identifier: CC-20446-20843
Scope and Contents

curry describes his adventures on riding a train as a hobo in this story. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

A Pond of Stars / Kempton, Karl ; Inman W., 1989

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Identifier: CC-07714-7864
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Will Inman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

A Printer's Dozen / Gallo, Philip., 1992

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Identifier: CC-10353-10556
Scope and Contents

This book includes twelve poems: "Fixing The Press," "Heeding Cockerell's Advice," "The Old Hot-Metal Man Doesn't Let The Type Go--And For The Very Reason I Wouldn't Either," "Workmanship," "Imagine You Are A Craftsman," "Stopping," "Moving The Press," "Wrong Font," "Advertisement For A First Book of Poems," "The Evils Of Print," "Stet.," "The Truth About Margins." Seven of these poems were previously published elsewhere. The title page has a colored wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec. This work was printed by Gerald Lange. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

A selection of Poems from The Martyrology Books 6 and 7 / Nichol, bp., 1988

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Identifier: CC-34702-36405
Scope and Contents

Printed for English 102, fall semester, 1988 at Simon Fraser University. The cover concrete poem is entitled "From gifts" and is a work in progress. The book was owned by Warren Tallman, a Canadian poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

A Selection / Sanesi, Roberto., 1975

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Identifier: CC-02653-2696
Scope and Contents

Included as part of Grosseteste Review No.8. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

a series of Sharp Points / Horvath, Alan ; Schaefer M., 1978 - 2004

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Identifier: CC-48539-69570
Scope and Contents Mike Schaefer did the abstract silkscreen prints for this book. As mentioned on Horvath's blog, "MOSTLY BROKEN SCABS PRESS 1977 -- 1984: For $10 I bought an old paste ink Gestetner mimeograph from a friend's brother-in-law who owned a used office furniture store and who has subsequently gone insane. The mimeo had a major crack in one of the drums that would prevent the image over the crack from reproducing. With a bunch of duct tape, it worked ok for me. I printed most of the publications in the kitchen of my Clifton Blvd. apartment. The last magazine was called Scratch (like the sound of a tone arm going across a record). In reality, I think the Scratch magazines were about learning to appreciate subtleties and forgiveness. KIRPAN PRESS 1998 -- Present: After not publishing for 13 years, I was pulled out of retirement when I attended a poetry reading at a bookstore in Kent, Ohio. Besides starting to resurrect partial books that had been dormant for 20 years, Dave Pishnery...
Dates: 1978 - 2004

A Sparrow's Food: Poems 1971/82 / Shikatani, Gerry., 1984

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Identifier: CC-02236-2276
Scope and Contents

The drawings in this book were done by Rosalind Goss. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984