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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Ant on Bruckner / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-12684-12927
Scope and Contents

This card is also designated Jargon Society Card No.17. It depicts a portrait of the composer, Anton Bruckner, with an ant on his head. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Arcueil: Ca - Tea-Leaves / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan; Vince John., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-13291-13592
Scope and Contents

Ca - Tea in the title can be read as [Erik] Satie, the French avant garde music composer who is depicted in full figure view at the top of the pedestal in this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Christmas / Holiday Broadside: An Arabesk for Frederick Delius at the Year's End. No.3 / John Furnival ; Jonathan Williams., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-12230-12454
Scope and Contents

This is a Christmas broadside from The University Libraries with drawing by Furnival and poetry by Williams. The title of this series was later changed to Holiday Broadside. The edition consists of 50 numbered and signed copies. The Sackner copy is signed but unnumbered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Letters to the Great Dead: Ant on Bruckner / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-13159-13460
Scope and Contents

Can be read as "Ant on Bruckner." The print depicts a portrait of Anton Bruckner, the composer, with a large ant on the top of his head. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Letters to the Great Dead: Bunting at Brigflatts / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-13288-13589
Scope and Contents

This depicts the poet Basil Bunting standing outside his house with the caption, "all sounds fall still, fellside bleat, hide-and-seek peewit." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Letters to the Great Dead: Charles Olson: Isolated Person in Gloucester, Massachusetts / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1987

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Identifier: CC-13157-13458
Scope and Contents

This depicts a sepia toned photograph of the poet Charles Olsen writing at his desk with the caption, "I, Maximus, address you islands of men and girls." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Letters to the Great Dead: Firbank in Fox's Furs on Firbank Fell / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1988

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Identifier: CC-13155-13456
Scope and Contents

This depicts a colored portrait of the British poet Ronald Firbank standing on a large rock, with the caption, "Firbank in Fox's Furs on Firbank Fell." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Letters to the Great Dead: Louden Lots Largamente Slargando / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-13156-13457
Scope and Contents

This depicts a man and woman who cannot be identified with the caption, "Louden lots Largamente Slargando." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Letters to the Great Dead: Monsieur Point / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1984

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Identifier: CC-13161-13462
Scope and Contents

This depicts a portrait of M. Point, a French architect who built "La Pyramide" in Paris, with a quote by him in the caption, "success is the sum of a lot of small things correctly done." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Letters to the Great Dead: Mr. Lear / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-13163-13464
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a black and white portrait of Edward Lear, the British poet-artist, surrounded by colored animals he wrote about in his verse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Letters to the Great Dead: Stevie Smith / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1984

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Identifier: CC-13158-13459
Scope and Contents

This depicts a black and white portrait of Stevie Smith, the British poet with the caption, "Stevie, dressed for the corpse road, at Osmotherly." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Seventy Sixty Fifty Not Out! Well Played, Sir!, 1999

 Item — Folder 59: [Barcode: 31858072537933]
Identifier: CC-33470-35114
Scope and Contents

The print, done in commemoration of Jonathan Williams' 70th birthday, shows him playing cricket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Six Rusticated Wall-Eyed Poems / Williams, Jonathan; Atchley, Dana., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-37662-39528
Scope and Contents

The prints show water damage in the lower part of the unprinted area but the images are intact. The poems in this portfolio are found poems in public places that have been rendered typographically by Dana Atchley. The poems are captioned by Williams so that they are concrete-picture poems. Willams comments in the introduction, "Very quick, very large. I want poems to get their ass out of books and out into the world where they stare back at people. Thre is NO reason why this nation has to be surrendered only into the hands of TEXACO looming 60 feet high on the steel towers against the polluted sunset. Energy is Eternal Delight, said Mr. Blake. The concrete poem, the seen pem, is just another tool, another way -- the slow curve to go along with the lyrical fastball -- to keep us alive and in the majors." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969