Conventional non-fiction

Lyrics for the Bride of God / Tarn, Nathaniel., 1975

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Identifier: CC-62525-47679

Dates: 1975

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)

M Train / Smith, Patti., 2015

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Identifier: CC-61044-10003819

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a...

Dates: 2015

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)

M Train / Smith, Patti., 2015

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Identifier: CC-61069-10003845

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a...

Dates: 2015

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)

Machine Language / Dowker, David ; Howe S., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51901-73002

Dates: 2010

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)

Mad Boys / Reid, Jamie ; Simpson G ; Rimbaud A., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29485-30850

Scope and Contents

The book is composed of two works, "Baseball & Bowering" and "The Quest for the Mad Boy." The picture poems in this book by Gregg Simpson are reproductions of his collages. The latter appear to incorporate visual images from old engravings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

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)

Mad Windows / Perry, Phil, editor ; Kryss TL ; Inman W ; Blazek D ; levy da., 1969

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Identifier: CC-03966-4041

Dates: 1969

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)

Mad With Music / Nuttall, Jeff., 1989

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Identifier: CC-05517-5623

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Second edition; first edition was published 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

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)

Made in Engish: The Poems of Stuart Mills / Mills, Stuart ; Cutts S ; Derrida J ; Williams J., 2008

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Identifier: CC-54589-990036

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)

Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th Birthday / Williams, Jonathan, editor ; Furnival J ; Benveniste A ; Broughton J ; Cobbing B ; Corman C ; Cox K ; Creeley R ; Cutts S ; Davenport G ; Edelstein JM ; Eshleman C ; Fisher R ; Gardner I ; Ginsberg A ; Hamilton R ; Henri A ; Houedard DS ; Johnson R ; Kenedy R ; MacDiarmid H ; Meyer T ; Mills S ; Mitchell A ; Morgan E ; Mottram E ; Nuttall J ; Phillips T ; Pickard T ; Raworth T ; Rothenberg J ; Tarn N ; Turnbull G ; Tilson J ; Williams J ; Zukofsky L., 1977

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Identifier: CC-30664-32105

Scope and Contents

The fold-out pages of drawings by John Furnival and Richard Hamilton depict the house of Basil Bunting. Tom Phillips contributed a Humument page to this festschrift. -- 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)

Madonna: A Poem / Arguelles, Ivan., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30764-32210

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This is a long poem dealing with the poet's impressions of the contemporary rock music star, Madonna intersperced with quotes from Dante's Divine Comedy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

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)

magadejem / Van Essche, Leon., 1962

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Identifier: CC-59917-10002968

Dates: 1962

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)

[Mainpoint Purple] , 1977

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Identifier: CC-50289-71356

Scope and Contents

Kohav did the the cover and the calligraphic texts; Fred Reeves contributed the frontpiece drawing of Kohav. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977