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Kempton, Karl, 1943-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1943 July 1

Nationality

American

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Anthology Meaning Meanings, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-28995-30331
Scope and Contents

This booklet was written for a workshop in a grade school class and is a second edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Black Strokes White Spaces, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-56304-56893
Scope and Contents

This is the 'deluxe edition' of the book with a recycled hard cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

d.a. levy Pages, 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31274-32745
Scope and Contents

In his essay, Karl Young describes d.a. levy in his any facets e.g. spiritual poet, warrior against repression and conformity, quiet scribe and nihilist non-conformer. This web site for levy notes that the only existing critical text published about his life and works is Ingrid Swanberg's "Zen Concrete and etc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Little Xerox Book: Eon Pulse (for Sylvia). No.3, 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-28090-29249
Scope and Contents

This work was first published by NRG magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Lost Alfabet Found, 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-37028-38868
Scope and Contents

In this book, almost each page depicts a typewriter piece that is constructivistic in appearance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Rune, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-60620-56889
Scope and Contents

Pages were typed than photocopied for this limited edition stored in a Kempton box. The slipcase made by Bern Porter is unique. The variety and complexity of Kemptom's typings is a tour de force of possibilities accomplished with this device. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

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

Water from the Mountains of Light, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-28936-30266
Scope and Contents

This book does not include any of Kempton's signature typewriter glyphs. The theme deals mainly with preservation of the environment. This edition is one of 25 copies handbound and signed by Kempton for individuals who helped to support its publication. The Sackners were among that group and are so mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995