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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 460 Collections and/or Records:

The Museum at Purgatory / Bantock, Nick., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33636-35294
Scope and Contents Donna Seaman in Booklist, November 1, 1999 captures the essence of this book."This is the slightest of Bantock's clever, illustrated novels. The author of the Griffin and Sabine trilogy and The Forgetting Room (1997), Bantock combines inventive collages with lightweight if witty and sweet metaphysical fables. This tale is told by Non, the curator of the museum in Purgatory. Purgatory is a city, Non explains, a city that is in constant flux, forever changing its shape, its buildings, its trees, and its light and colors. A place of ambiguity, it is where souls come to re-evaluate their lives. It seems that we are essentially conduits for information, which we "deposit" into the collective consciousness via our dreams. Therefore, the question each soul must answer before they leave is whether he or she has "contributed enough to the greater consciousness" to go to a Utopian State, or, failing that, to a Dystopia. Non's job is to watch over the souls of collectors and to house their...
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Plantings / Russell, Glenn, 1989

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Identifier: CC-03148-3197
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

The Plight of the French Illustrated Book Today / Coron, Antoine; Iliazd; Dupont A; Crombie J; Bourne S., 1986

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Identifier: CC-18575-18947
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

The Poet Assassinated / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Ron Padgett, translator ; Dine J., 1968

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Identifier: CC-24752-25205
Scope and Contents

Illustrated by Jim Dine. -- 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

The Real Tin Flower: Poems About the World at Nine / Barnstone, Aliki., 1968

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Identifier: CC-21459-21870
Scope and Contents

Foreword by Anne Sexton. Illustrations by Paul Giovanopoulos. -- 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

The Return of the Slapstick Papyrus / Deschamps, F.., 1989

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Identifier: CC-15223-15544
Scope and Contents

Letter to Marvin Sackner from Francis Deschamps is laid into book. -- 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

The Rune: A Poem by Allen Ginsberg / Gloess, Thomas ; Ginsberg A., 1992

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Identifier: CC-10291-10494
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Starving Artists' Cookbook / Eidia, Paul ; Eidia, Melissa ; Wilson M ; Cage J ; Tot E ; Lipski D ; Colo P ; Cleveland B., 1991

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Identifier: CC-13491-13794
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of recipes, biographies and illustrations from artists in New York and Europe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Topiarist 3 / Cutts, Simon., 1977

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Identifier: CC-18063-18433
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: Booklets

They Ran Out / Golden, Alisa J.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10466-10670
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Things / Tomoyaso, Larry., 1994

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Identifier: CC-01562-1597
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Tom Phillips' Dante's Inferno / Russell, John., 1985

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Identifier: CC-03582-3647
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: Various Formats

Tom Phillips' Dante's Inferno / Russell, John., 1985

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Identifier: CC-03583-3648
Scope and Contents

Reviews Dante's Inferno, translated and illustrated by Tom Phillips. -- 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: Various Formats

Triple Exposure: 1st Copy / Burke, Herbert., 1984

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Identifier: CC-23207-23646
Scope and Contents

Inscribed by Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Triple Exposure / Burke, Herbert., 1990

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Identifier: CC-23124-23562
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition. -- 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

Triple Exposure / Burke, Herbert., 1984

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Identifier: CC-23206-23645
Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Tulips Two Cups Suspension / Golden, Alisa J.., 1988

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Identifier: CC-10464-10668
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Turistou proti sve vuli / Hoffmeister, Adolf ; Teige K., 1946

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Identifier: CC-31848-33368
Scope and Contents

This story deals with Hoffmeister's escape from Prague after the Nazi invasion. It then recounts his experiences in the American army and finally his return to Prague after the end of WWII. The cover was designed by Karel Teige after a drawing in the book by Hoffmeister. The illustrations in the book are mainly cartoon-like line drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1946
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Uber die Elefantin 'Mucke!' / Dieckhoff, Artur Hans-George., 1987

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Identifier: CC-15390-15714
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of the book first published in an edition of 30 copies in 1978. Its theme is the Elephant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Underfoot / Kopaska-Merkel, David C. ; Huth G., 1991

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Identifier: CC-07907-8061
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

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