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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1793 Collections and/or Records:

Utopic Furnace Press: [a curry dacquiri dark...]. No.17 / Steve McCaffery ; Wharton Hood., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-06762-6881
Scope and Contents

Poem adapted from "The mouse ran up the clock." McCaffery provided the words and Hood the image. The original layout for this work is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Ventose , 1991

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12511-12738
Scope and Contents

Depicts a shovel labeled Ventose on its blade with a landscape in the background. The Finlay bibliographies differ as to its tirage 250 or 75 but it is more likely 250. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Venus / bissett, bill ; Lachance B., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-20951-21360
Scope and Contents

Bertand Lachance contributed photographs to this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[vertical tower] (010267) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56137-9999580
Scope and Contents

The tower, resembling a skyscraper, is composed of slashes and dashes with upper and lower butresses and a vertical illegible title at the top. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Very Special Drawings / Tot, Endre., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-42178-44182
Scope and Contents

The covers are stiffer than the mass produced edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Very Special Drawings / Tot, Endre., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-42179-44183
Scope and Contents

The covers are less stiff than the limited edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Video Poetry / Klivar, Miroslav., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-32346-33913
Scope and Contents

The printed pages provide minimal descriptions of the photographs, e.g., Girl 5 - 5555 depicts a girl on a videoscreen with four large 5's in white superimposed over her shoulders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Village / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35241-36975
Scope and Contents

The image depicts a black and white drawing of a village scene by the German Fauve painter, Gabriele Munter and the poem with a declaration of the color of the houses along with a pun. The poem reads, red houses - yellow houses - blue houses - greenhouses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Visitor / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35287-37021
Scope and Contents

The image on the cover is a row boat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Visual Voices Unpublished; Poem Stripped Bare of Print Trappings Collapses into Dissolute Prose; page 11 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-57242-10000564
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Praed, "Sonnet to R.C. Hillyard, October 15, 1836" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; Poem with Centuries-Old Major Fault Revealed; page 5 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57241-10000563
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Fulke Greville, from Caelica (xiv) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; Poem with Vowel Music (Strung Too Tight) Sprung; page 32 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-57254-10000576
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Tennyson, "To a Lady Sleeping" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994