ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

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This extensive collection of concrete, visual and picture poetry was offered as a collection, not of individual items. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bibliography is restricted to books. In introduction, p. XVII cites Sackner Archive as "one major concentration" of concrete poetry. Selective brief annotations. Contains index to poem titles and chronologic ordering of works cited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a listing of the personal holdings of Leiber. Some of these items subsequently appeared in sales catalogues issued by Leiber. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Lists manuscripts and the periodical of their publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was edited by jw curry, lefler's divorced husband. The Sackner Archive catalogue in included in the bibliography of lefler's publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents jw curry contributes an article dealing with the bibliographic details of Gronk. Nicky Drumbolis writes about jw curry's printing methods in an article summarizing Industrial Sabotage Issues 1-38 and other issues of his handwork as follows. "Making things with type and paper is for some people an irresistible temptation. One guy gets a job, buys an old press, some type, and all the etceteras, goes about making what he can, nice things. The other guy, street poet, bums an Atlas Office Printing Outfit #3 from someone, scrounges up some paper, begins by setting his own lines. This is the same thing -compulsive. In seven years, John Curry, with the sometime help of Peggy Lefler, has produced 376 different things. Most of them have been handset and handstamped using various rubber types. After the initial series of 13 pieces begun in Vancouver in 1978, most of them his own poems, Curry decided to explore the technic of the medium publishing the work of other writers-to date, over 100....