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Experimental non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

35 years of visible writing: a memoir, 2004

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Identifier: CC-43915-46024
Scope and Contents

This book, an abstracted compendium of Kostelanetz's publications, was designed by Igor Satanovsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress / Dexter, Lord Timothy., 1950

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Identifier: CC-34034-35712
Scope and Contents This is a reprint of a book first published in Boston in 1838. The introduction consists of a biographical sketch of the author. The text is a series of short political polemics printed without punctuation. The author printed punctuation marks in the appendix at the end of the book for the readers to put in as they...
Dates: 1950

All Good Things 4 / Wilde, Christopher, editor ; Weber M ; Warnke U ; Silverberg RA ; Allerslev K., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42314-44324
Scope and Contents

The text is made by stringing together 10 good things from each contributor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Almost Stalingrad, 1998

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Identifier: CC-34435-36132
Scope and Contents

This book is a neo-dada perspective of Melbourne, Australia. The introduction states that this "discourse is useful in gaining insight into human interaction, disciplines, boundaries, place, space. But, of course, the possibility of gaining insight is a Modern notion...and this is a postmodern work" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Art at the Edge of the Law / Benes BL ; Friedman T ; Lombardi M ; Prince R ; Sachs T ; Tomaselli F., 2001

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Identifier: CC-51859-72959
Scope and Contents

Each page needs to be opened along the vertical perforation to see the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Black Sun Number Four: The Bone of the Matter / Evason, Greg., 1997

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Identifier: CC-40945-42923
Scope and Contents

The book deals with Evason's severe depression and its effects on being a writer. The writing appears to be almost "automatic" in style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Cuba-Cola / Blaine, Julien ; Feijoo S., 2006

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Identifier: CC-47133-49873
Scope and Contents

This book documents an invitation to Blaine to perform in Cuba in 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Elles sont tropes! Figure et tournures de la lengua francaise, 2005

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Identifier: CC-44502-46652
Scope and Contents

The text is written by Quesmand and the book is illustrated by Berman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Everyone Knows Somebody Who's Dead, 1973

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Identifier: CC-32714-34303
Scope and Contents

This is a short, autobiographical story about the author's friend and the trail of deaths by suicide of this friend and acquaintances. The cover designed by John Furse depicts a concrete poetic image of RIP. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Formula For Labor / Was, Elizabeth., 1988

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Identifier: CC-43168-45224
Scope and Contents

The text consists of made-up words by Was during her first pregnancy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Friendly Cannibals / Chagoya, Enrique ; Gomez-Pena, Guillermo., 1996

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Identifier: CC-32589-34170
Scope and Contents

The artist Chagoya presents "a fictional pre-columbian codex book." His images stem from ancient meso-America, comic book characters, Catholic iconography, ethnic stereotypes and the border patrol. Gomez-Pena describes a futurist United States in which the Chicano culture and Spanglish are mainstream. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Glassary / Derrida, Jacques ; Leavey, John, Jr. ; Ulmer, Gregory L. ; Eckersley R., 1986

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Identifier: CC-31828-33346
Scope and Contents

This book is a companion volume to Glas that aids in understanding this work. It indexes an extensive list of words that Derrida used in 'Glas." The index also designated glossary is one of the largest present in a book of this size. Leavey translated "Glas" from French into English. The book was designed by Richard Eckersley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Jurassic Colosseum / spence, pete., 1985

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Identifier: CC-41051-43032
Scope and Contents

spence writes a stream of consciousness account of the beginning of the earth with pseudo-scientific illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Margins of Philosophy / Derrida, Jacques ; Bass A ; Valery P ; Leiris M ; Eckersley R., 1982

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Identifier: CC-31914-33439
Scope and Contents This book, edited by Alan Bass and designed by Richard Eckersly, comprises a collection of philosophical essays written by Derrida that are copiously annotated with footnotes. The first essay, Tympan, is printed in two columns; the wider right sided column is the text by Derrida and the narrower left sided column with wider spacing between lines reprints a text by Michel Leiris on the same subject.BOOK SELLER: In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heideggereach dealt with in one or more of the essays. There are essays too on linguistics (Saussure, Benveniste, Austin) and on the nature of metaphor (White Mythology), the latter with important implications for literary theory. Derrida is fully in control of a dazzling stylistic register in this booka source of true illumination for those prepared to follow his arduous path. Bass is a superb...
Dates: 1982

Mine Fields / Burke, Bill., 1995

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Identifier: CC-24074-24526
Scope and Contents

The theme of this heavily illustrated book is savagery of the Cambodian war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Paris out of hand {a wayward guide} / Gordon, Karen Elizabeth ; Hodgson B ; Bantock N., 1996

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Identifier: CC-48551-69582
Scope and Contents Publisher's Weekly: "The conceit behind this playful, charming spoof of a book is as simple and bizarre as a Magritte painting: it is a guide to an imaginary Paris, complete with fake hotel listings, off-the-wall travel advice and restaurant recommendations that aim more at literary than culinary edification. In Gordon's Paris, tourists may stop at the Grand Hotel des Echecs, home to a clientele made up of chess lovers and losers ("echecs" means both "chess" and "failures" in French); dine at the Cafe Dada, where one inserts food into an Automat and is fed foreign coins in return; or take in a film at the Cinema l'Ange des Sables, which shows only movies shot in the desert. "Ici on parle angoisse" ("Anguish spoken here"), Gordon informs us of one hotel. Admirers of Gordon's previous work, which includes the popular grammar handbook The Transitive Vampire and the novel The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales, will not be surprised to find her drawing heavily on the work of such...
Dates: 1996

Roma 1956 / Apolloni, Ignazio., 1988

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Identifier: CC-49650-70702
Scope and Contents

This book is replete with line drawings and experimental typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany / Schott, Ben., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42671-44689
Scope and Contents

Beside the unusual information presented about foods, the book has innovative page layouts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004