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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1850 Collections and/or Records:

Climbing Blind, 1970

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-48062-69085
Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Cluster / Kowalski, Jorg ; Tarlatt, Ulrike., 1993

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Identifier: CC-07980-8136
Scope and Contents

The painted bookbinding depicts a visual poetic image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Coal 1 / Griffiths, Bill., 1990

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Identifier: CC-10213-10416
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Coal 2 / Griffiths, Bill., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10214-10417
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Coal 3 / Griffiths, Bill., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10216-10419
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Codes and Diodes / Sheppard, Robert ; Cobbing, Bob., 1991

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Identifier: CC-02215-2255
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Codine / Evason, Greg ; curry jw ; Miskowski M., 1991

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Identifier: CC-35520-37260
Scope and Contents

Introduction was written by jw curry; the cover and book design were done by Mike Miskowski. This unsigned copy has yellow colored letters of the title on the cover whereas the signed copy has grey colored letters. This is the third printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Codine / Evason, Greg ; curry jw ; Miskowski M., 1987

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Identifier: CC-30668-32110
Scope and Contents

Introduction was written by jw curry; the cover and book design were done by Mike Miskowski. This unsigned copy has yellow colored letters of the title on the cover whereas the signed copy has grey colored letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Codine / Evason, Greg ; curry jw ; Miskowski M., 1987

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Identifier: CC-13858-14163
Scope and Contents

The introduction (interdeduction) was written by jw curry; the cover and book design were done by Mike Miskowski. This signed copy has grey colored letters of the title on the cover whereas the unsigned copy has yellow colored letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Collected Pems / Forrest-Thomson, Veronica., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-59726-10002783
Scope and Contents

Edited with notes and variants by Anthony Barnett this book is publsihed in association with Allardyce, Barnett Publishers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Collected Poems, 1976

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Identifier: CC-62264-56267
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Collected Poems 1915-1967 / Burke, Kenneth., 1968

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Identifier: CC-22417-22841
Scope and Contents

Includes nine "Flowerishes" poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Collected Poems 1939-1989 / Smith, William Jay., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02066-2104
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Collected Poems 1949 - 1987, 1996

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Identifier: CC-50710-71785
Scope and Contents This edition also includes about 50 uncollected and unpublished poems and others written for Morgan's 70th birthday celebration.Internet: Edwin Morgan was born in Glasgow in 1920, first starting to write while at Glasgow High School. He studied English at Glasgow University, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War, during which he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He returned to University after the War and graduated in 1947. From 1947-1980 he taught English at Glasgow University, becoming Professor of English in 1975. During this time time he produced a major body of poetry and critical essays. He also wrote plays, libretti, and several works of translation. He travelled widely after the 1950s and translated poetry from many languages, particularly Russian, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and French. In the 1960s he experimented with concrete poetry and also championed Beat Poetry. His translations included Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de...
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Collected Poems 1961-2000 / Denner, Richard., 2001

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Identifier: CC-50774-71852
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds a book illustrated by Richard Denner aka Rychard that is entitled "Poeme Nudes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Collected Poems / Swenson, May., 2013

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Identifier: CC-56675-10004592
Scope and Contents Although Swenson's book, 'Iconographs' is recognized for multitude of shaped poems, this book depicts several other examples throughout her poetic career. These include poems from the following books, ' To Mix with Time' (1963) and 'Half Sun Half Sleep' (1967). In a section of 'Collected Poems' (2013) entitled 'Notes on the Text page 726, it is mentioned that the shaped poems of 'Iconographs' were oroginally published in a typewriter font preferred by Swenson.Alfred Corn Review from Poetry Magazine (December 2, 2013:Definition won't be easy, and it has to begin by taking her biography into account. The profile of the provincial who comes to New York in hopes of ?becoming a celebrated artist is standard enough, but in Swenson's case several non-routine factors should also be ?considered. Her parents were Swedish immigrants, Mormon converts come to the Utah homeland, who brought her up in their ?adopted faith. But at some point she realized she was a lesbian. This was one more reason...
Dates: 2013
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Collected Poems: There are Words / Turnbull, Gael ; Finlay IH ; Fisher R ; Creeley R ; Christie J., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46968-49706
Scope and Contents Gael Turnbull (7 April 1928 - 2 July 2004) was a Scottish poet who was an important precursor of the British Poetry Revival. Turnbull was born in Edinburgh and grew up in the North of England and in Canada. He studied Natural Science at Cambridge University and graduated in Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. In 1957, Turnbull started Migrant Press, one of the first British-run presses to focus on poets in the modernist tradition. His work was featured in the groundbreaking Revival anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain (1969). His own books include A Gathering of Poems 1950-1980 (1983) and Rattle of Scree: Poems (1997). He was also published in the anthologies The New British Poetry (1988), Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (1999) and Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (2001). He returned to Edinburgh in the early 1990s. In this city, he worked on what he termed kinetic poems; texts for installation in...
Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Collected Poems Volume One: Cygnet Ring / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

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Identifier: CC-17306-17670
Scope and Contents

This book includes poems of cut-ups begun in 1956. The method was to decide on the number of lines, clip out newspaper lines of the required number, and paste them up in an effective order to give an appearance of a conventional poem. This work antedates Gysin's 1959 cut-ups, usually attributed as the first to employ it. This book also includes cut-ups of earlier cut-ups, and permutations or mutations based on newspaper headlines but originating from phrases clipped from books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Collected Poems Volume One: Cygnet Ring [Performance Copy] / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

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Identifier: CC-17607-17975
Scope and Contents

Cobbing used the structure of the original book and added poems for a performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Collected Translations: Italian French Spanish Portuguese / Smith, William Jay ; Rimbaud A ; Laforgue J ; Valery P ; Jacob M ; Aragon L ; Prevert J ; Char R ; Gullar F ; Hnizdovsky J., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-42605-44621
Scope and Contents

Jacques Hnizdovsky provided woodcut illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

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