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Typewriter art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 834 Collections and/or Records:

supercoolnothing (020864) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-57810-10001061
Scope and Contents

From a large center figure the shape of a man's head emerges from the interior space created by the surrounding typescripts. Two smaller clusters of type create oval blank spaces.Charles Cameron wrote, "brilliant concrete self-portrait signed dsh done for me & given to me, dated 1964, featuring his head & shoulders as a blank space surrounded by the words "supercool nothing behind my innermost mask" - sylvester was a published authority on zen and frieind of the beats! - with lettra 22 roller / blue carbon effects in background, slight tear & fold, slightly aged, to my mind the finest of his concrete works I've ever seen, both self-portrait and masterpiece". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
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(unprocessed)

sur un theme en o / Mairey, Francoise., 1973

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Identifier: CC-59415-10002489
Scope and Contents

This typing is created totally with o's and parentheses.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973
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(unprocessed)

Swarm Leatherette / Morin, Gustave., 2015

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Identifier: CC-62364-10004163
Scope and Contents

Original page from the Clean Sails book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015
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(unprocessed)

Sylvester Houedard / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-08855-9030
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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

symbol 12 / Cinicolo 3, Donato., 1973

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Identifier: CC-17081-17439
Scope and Contents

Only 50 of the copies are signed. The typings were composed on an IBM selectric 82 typewriter made in Canada. cinicolo 3 added hand drawn inked curved lines to some of the typings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Tangled Persona (711209) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

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Identifier: CC-08642-8814
Scope and Contents

Accompanied by second sheet of framing instructions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
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(unprocessed)

Tantric Poems Perhaps / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-09392-9578
Scope and Contents

Also designated writers forum folders no 2. Houedard called the poems in this collection "Yantras." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
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(unprocessed)

Tantric Poems Perhaps / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-36647-38458
Scope and Contents

Also designated Writers Forum Folders no.2. This copy is missing two prints and the envelope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
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(unprocessed)

[ten vertical parallelograms] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

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Identifier: CC-09454-9641
Scope and Contents

The blue figures are lined up and spaced by size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
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(unprocessed)

Text Attachment for Krabbedanni: Three stapled pages attachments / Van Essche, Leon., 1962 - 1970

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Identifier: CC-62920-10004585
Dates: 1962 - 1970
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(unprocessed)

Textum: Page 5 / Todorovic, Miroljub., 1974

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Identifier: CC-37567-39424
Dates: 1974
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(unprocessed)

Textum: Page 7 / Todorovic, Miroljub., 1974

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Identifier: CC-37568-39425
Dates: 1974
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(unprocessed)

th heart breth uu th world / bissett, bill., 1998

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Identifier: CC-33939-35611
Scope and Contents

The typing consists of typed o = X * . and ()'s resembling a sky with clouds. This poem is printed in bissett's book, "scars on th seehors." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
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(unprocessed)

The Chronicles of Akhira, 1986

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Identifier: CC-58746-10001982
Scope and Contents Karl Kempton dedicated his 12 typoglifs in this volume to the poet-author Abd al-Hayy Moore, "bringing together sacred visual expression from around the world and wedding it to like-minded expression of the Native American Peoples, primarily of the Southwest and Central Coast of California." This book is stored in Lempton's box.Internet: Moore was born in 1940 in Oakland, California, his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964. In 1972 his second book, Burnt Heart, Ode to the War Dead, was also published by City Lights. He was the winner of the Ina Coolbrith Award for poetry and the James D. Phelan Award for the manuscript of poems in progress that became Dawn Visions. From 1966 to 1969, Mr. Moore wrote and directed ritual theatre for his Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company in Berkeley, California.When he became a Muslim in 1970, he took the name Abd al-Hayy, and began traveling extensively in Europe and...
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 (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

The Cosmic Chef: An Evening of Concrete, 1970

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Identifier: CC-27765-28892
Scope and Contents

This issue features typewriter and calligraphic concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

the cosmic easteregg of brahman; svayambhu lingam (720372) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

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Identifier: CC-33085-34710
Scope and Contents This typing depicts three rectangles formed with red, joined underline marks. The inner portions of the rectangles contain scattered period marks. The image is framed with joined 'at' (@) marks. This work was exhibited in Force Fields: phrases of the kinetic held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona in 1999 and the Hayward Gallery London in 2000. The work was selected by the Curator, Guy Brett. Internet: The Svayambhu Linga (typed in lower right corner) are temples that contain representations of Shiva that are believed to have risen up by themselves in the primordial past. In the commentary by Nigamajnanadeva on his Jirnoddharadasakam, sixty-eight Svayambhu Lingas are listed Natural (Kailash, Amarnath, Mt. Shivling) Swayambhu Linga. The history of the Valley, according to the legends, begins with Swayambhu, or the "the self-existent". In times uncharted by history, Bodhisattva Manjusri came across a beautiful lake during his travel. He saw a lotus that emitted brilliant...
Dates: 1972
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(unprocessed)

The Cosmographical Lobster / Chopin, Henri ; Jean Chopin, translator., 1976

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Identifier: CC-16987-17343
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Cosmographical Lobster [Deluxe Edition] / Chopin, Henri ; Jean Chopin, translator., 1976

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Identifier: CC-16988-17344
Scope and Contents

The French edition was published by Review OU in 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Darker Birds The Lighter Sky / Mott, Michael., 1971

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Identifier: CC-06285-6400
Scope and Contents Best-selling novelist, biographer, editor, poet, and essayist, Michael Mott, who was also twice writer-in-residence at the College of William and Mary, first in 1978-79 and again in 1985-86, is one of those rare writers"”a genuine "man of letters" who has succeeded in every genre he has tried. Born and educated in England to an English lawyer and American sculptor, he first began publishing poetry in 1948. His most recent book of poems, The World of Richard Dadd, won the Robert E. Lee & Ruth I. Wilson Poetry Book Award. Mott's first novel, The Notebooks of Susan Berry, was a best-seller in England and was published by MacMillan in the United States. His second novel, Helmet and Wasps, was a critical success in both England and the United States. He has also published two novels for young adults, Master Entrick and The Blind Cross. Mott served as poetry editor for the prestigious Kenyon Review from 1966 to 1970. In 1974 Jimmy Carter presented him with a Governor's Award for his...
Dates: 1971
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(unprocessed)

The Doggerel Diamond / Morin, Gustave., 2015

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Identifier: CC-62355-10004152
Scope and Contents

Original page from the Clean Sails book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015
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(unprocessed)

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