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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1854 Collections and/or Records:

The PoPedology of an Ambient Language / Torres, Edwin., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47958-68981
Scope and Contents

Using ambient language"-fragments, excerpts, stage directions, echoes, conversation snippets, syntactic undulation, and rigorous sonic chaos -- Edwin Torres creates an alchemy of language, what he calls "electrobabble" and "algorithmictotem." Amid the fast-paced frenzy of his lyrical style, Torres finds an excited reason for hope and purpose: "one by one/ the rhythmic yuwanna/ will climb the fearist/ the murmuring yugottit/ will find the liminal/ the metronomed howboutit/ will catch the kicker." Amid such restless verbal motion, things will happen, things must happen; as order will emerge from disorder, a sense of calm gradually suffuses THE POPEDOLOGY OF AN AMBIENT LANGUAGE. "This all impossible/ But I appear it on page, so/ Becomes possible on way-through page." This book is also designated Atelos 29. The front cover title contains colored letters PAGE. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

The Position of Things: Collected Poems 1961-1962, 2008

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Identifier: CC-51779-72879
Scope and Contents

Beppe Cavatorta contributed an essay on Spatola's poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

The Properties of Breath / Korelitz, Jean Hanff., 1988

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Identifier: CC-07860-8013
Scope and Contents

There are three major poems opening each section of this book of poetry, each of which relates to cigarette smoking. The first, "Descending the Lung," reads "Hand over hand, we inch. Our grips are fine hairs, moving in their tides. We sink from rung landscape, arcing to the edges of the body. Looking over shoulders we can see it: lung, translucent mine, its dim. We cannot move our feet for the mire the smoke mahes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Rejected Poems From Loris Essary's Weaving Home / curry, jw, editor ; Essary L., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19703-20090
Scope and Contents

These poems that were rejected for Curvd H&Z No.301, 1984, were retyped by curry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Result is Always Circular / sigmund, r.j., aka rjs., 1967

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Identifier: CC-03567-3631
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The poem deals with the incarceration of rjs (Robert J. Sigmund) on drug charges. rjs was in the circle of poets affiliated with d.a.levy. The cover was designed by T.L. Kryss. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Revolutionary and other poems / Morris, Stephen., 1977

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Identifier: CC-38235-40131
Scope and Contents

This book was first published in 1972, revised in 1975 and reprinted in 1976 and 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

The RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment / Halprin, Lawrence ; Amirkhanian C ; MacLow J ; Bremer C ; Kaprow A., 1969

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Identifier: CC-29943-31334
Scope and Contents

The RSVP cycles are defined as resource, score, valuation and performance. Halprin demonstrates in his writings and drawings how these factors relate to the creative processes in a continuous cycle of interrelated activities, and specifically influence urban and environmental planning. He describes scores as "Symbolizations of processes that extend over time...in all fields of human endeavor... as a way of communicating over time and space to other people in other places."The author has written a book based upon futurist theory of connecting avant garde artistic activities with landscape and city planning architecture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Sand Burg / Clark, Tom ; Brainard J., 1966

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Identifier: CC-17116-17474
Scope and Contents

Cover by Joe Brainard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966