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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1854 Collections and/or Records:

The Grammer Trilogy: Hours 20, 21 & 22 from The Book of Hours, part of The Martyrology Bk VI / Nichol, bp., 1982

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Identifier: CC-32320-33884
Scope and Contents

Printed for a reading by bp Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982
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)

The Great Wall of China / Colombo, John Robert ; McLuhan M., 1966

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Identifier: CC-18329-18701
Dates: 1966
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)

The Greek Anthology V / Paton, W.R., editor ; Theocritus ; Simmias of Rhodes., 1979

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Identifier: CC-04725-4814
Scope and Contents

First published in 1918, this anthology reprints Greek Epigrams in various metres, arithmetical problems, riddles, oracles, miscellanea, epigrams of the planudean anthology not in the Palatine manuscript, with the Greek and English texts on facing pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
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)

The Gun Child / Sauls, Roger ; levy da., 1968

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Identifier: CC-49109-70149
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy did the cover drawing that depicts abstract markings. This book is stored in a d.a. levy box. -- 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)

The Gutman Letter / Gutman, Walter., 1969

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Identifier: CC-44607-46770
Scope and Contents This is a seemingly out-of-character book to be published by Something Else Press. However, Gutman intersperces stock tips with comments on the visual and literary arts in his stock-tip letters of the 1960's. Emmett Williams comments on the flap of the dust jacket: "A few years back, the editors of New York's leading financial weekly characterized Walter Gutman as 'the most entertaining man on the Street.' They meant Wall Street, of course, and they had in mind the Gutman Letters, those unorthodox, lyrical stock-market tip sheets of the late 50's and early 60's the likes of which the brokers of Wall Street and their clients had never seen before and probably will never see again. ~ To supplement the letters, there are photographs documenting Gutman's non-Wall Street activities, and in real life these far outweigh his affair with the tickertape. They are the kinds of involvement that may well have cost him a seat on the Exchange: the nude models, the friendship with Jack Kerouac,...
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)

The Happy Birthday of Death / Corso, Gregory ; Ginsberg A., 1960

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Identifier: CC-18592-18964
Scope and Contents

The Bomb, a pattern poem, is reproduced on the fold-out pages. This is the 11th printing of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960
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)

The Headache / Hensel, Susan., 1996

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Identifier: CC-46384-49109
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: Booklets (unprocessed)

The History of Dada, 1982

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Identifier: CC-03429-3485
Dates: 1982
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)

The Hits of T.S. Eliot / Adlers, Bengt., 1980

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Identifier: CC-24359-24811
Scope and Contents

Second book in the trilogy "POETIX" in which Adlers rearranges words and poems to form his own collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
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)

The House of Illnesses, 1993

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Identifier: CC-00110-113
Scope and Contents

Zurn was the companion of Hans Bellmer; she suffered from mental illness the last 13 years of her life. The book was written in 1958 after she developed a case of jaundice. Contains 18 surrealistic, calligraphic drawings related to the text. -- 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 (processed) / BOOKS

The House That Vispo Built / Baroni, Vittore ; Topel, Andrew ; Marinetti FT ; Cangiullo F ; Ruscha E ; Ben ; Mallarme S ; Mon F ; Mayakovsky V ; Ruhm G ; Arias-Misson A ; Fahlstrom O ; Finlay IH ; Tzara T ; Carroll L ; Gorey E., 2012

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Identifier: CC-54981-990388
Scope and Contents

The authors are listed on the cover as Bela Noiport & Odrew Van Reitt which is an anagrm of the combinations of the names of both authors, Baroni and Topel. Andrew Topel created the "visual poetry and other rough elements, mixed and augmented by Vittore Baroni, who also wrote the rhymed couplets." This book is stored in the Baroni box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012
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)

The Innerspace Project / Berner, Jeff., 1972

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Identifier: CC-22738-23173
Dates: 1972
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)

The Invisble Reader / Penney, Bridget, editor ; Holman, Paul, editor ; Barnett A ; Bennett JM ; Bevis J ; Caddel R ; Culbert B ; Dellafiora D ; Finlay IH ; Gilonis H ; Griffiths B ; Home S ; Johnson R ; Mayrocker F ; Norris R., 1995

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Identifier: CC-51672-72772
Scope and Contents

This book a performance poem about the French revolution by Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
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)

The Iron Whim; A Fragmented History of Typewriting / Wershler-Henry, Darren ; Ballard J ; Burroughs WS ; cummings ee ; Gysin B ; Kafka F ; McCaffery S ; Kerouac J ; Ronell A ; Ruscha E ; Smart C ; Vollmann W ; Williams M ; McLuhan M ; Olson C ; Sackner MA., 2007

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Identifier: CC-56139-9999582
Scope and Contents This book is a first edition, first printing.The author provides a history of the typewriter as a machine. There is also a section on "cut-ups" by Burroughs and Gyson.Review in The Atlantic, April 2007: "Witty and idiosyncratic, this history of typewriting says more than one might think possible about the subject. . . ." Book Description Amazon.com: "The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it is primarily about the role played by this marvel in the writer's life. Darren Wershler-Henry populates his book with figures as disparate as Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, Alger Hiss, William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Northrop Frye, David Cronenberg, and David Letterman; the soundtrack ranges from the industrial clatter of a...
Dates: 2007
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)

The Iron Whim; A Fragmented History of Typewriting / Wershler-Henry, Darren ; Ballard J ; Burroughs WS ; cummings ee ; Gysin B ; Kafka F ; McCaffery S ; Kerouac J ; Ronell A ; Ruscha E ; Smart C ; Vollmann W ; Williams M ; McLuhan M ; Olson C ; Sackner MA., 2005

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Identifier: CC-54579-990025
Scope and Contents This book is a first edition, first printing.The author provides a history of the typewriter as a machine. There is also a section on "cut-ups" by Burroughs and Gyson.Review in The Atlantic, April 2007: "Witty and idiosyncratic, this history of typewriting says more than one might think possible about the subject. . . ." Book Description Amazon.com: "The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it is primarily about the role played by this marvel in the writer's life. Darren Wershler-Henry populates his book with figures as disparate as Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, Alger Hiss, William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Northrop Frye, David Cronenberg, and David Letterman; the soundtrack ranges from the industrial clatter of a...
Dates: 2005
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)

The Joking Muse / Stone, David H.., 1995

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Identifier: CC-03101-3149
Scope and Contents

Includes several shaped, typewriter produced, poems depicting a vase, hand, pitchfork, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
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)

The Killing of Nettie Love / Erenberg, Sam., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-13727-14031
Scope and Contents

Describes the killing of a innocent civilian by gang members in Los Angeles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983
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)

The King of Time / Khlebnikov, Velimir ; Paul Schmidt, translator., 1985

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Identifier: CC-29836-31217
Scope and Contents

The book includes a representative selection of Khlebnikov's writings. -- 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)

The King of Time / Khlebnikov, Velimir ; Paul Schmidt, translator., 1990

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Identifier: CC-29837-31218
Scope and Contents

The book includes a representative selection of Khlebnikov's writings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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)

The Kingfisher Catcher, 1974

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Identifier: CC-38239-40135
Dates: 1974
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 / Stephen Morris

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