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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1850 Collections and/or Records:

World Sounds World Sounds / Kryss, Tom L., editor ; Beck A ; Turnbull G ; Leed J ; Taylor K ; levy da., 1989

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Identifier: CC-34855-36564
Scope and Contents

This is an anthology of previously published poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Writes / Fowler, Gene., 1967

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Identifier: CC-10905-11115
Scope and Contents

This essay deals with the notion of the Guru. Perhaps, Fowler is discussing d.a. levy. Gene Fowler served a five year term at San Quentin Prison for armed robbery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Written 1976-2013 / Inman, P. ; Dworkin C., 2014

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Identifier: CC-60265-10003265
Scope and Contents

P Inman=Peter Inman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Xaipe: Seventy-One Poems / cummings, e.e.., 1950

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Identifier: CC-20623-21025
Scope and Contents

This is the second printing of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1950

Yodeling up the Canyon / Fencott, P.C.., 1977

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Identifier: CC-11219-11434
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd edition of the book that was first published in 1977. Includes both typeset and handwritten texts. The latter include several calligraphic styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Yodelling up the Canyon: Thriller Guide to Eaten Out / Fencott, P.C.., 1977

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Identifier: CC-32394-33965
Scope and Contents

The theme of the book is eating out in fast food restaurants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Yonder Glow / Clinton, Martina ; bissett b., 1971

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Identifier: CC-32989-34610
Scope and Contents

bill bissett's abstract drawing is reproduced on the first page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence: Crafts Discourse and the Common Reader In Canadian Poetry Book Reviews / Mancini, Donato ; Colombo JR ; Betts G ; Acorn M ; Bok C., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55269-9999031
Scope and Contents Linda Hutcheon (Amazon.com): While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is at stake in the reviewing of poetry? What fantasies are inherent to the practice? How is poetry itself produced in the reviewing of poetry? Why has the reviewing of poetry remained largely invisible to self-reflexive critique? These are some of the many questions You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence dares to ask in its query to determine if poetry reviewers can claim to have the authority the imagine they have over their chosen subject. As a retort to the retrograde trend that is poetry reviewing in Canada, You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is the first book to detail the production and structure of an "aesthetic conscience"...
Dates: 2012